Since December 1, MANUEL SERRAT (77) announced that it is withdrawn from the scenarios, applause and praise towards one of the great eminents among the Spanish-speaking singer-songwriters have not stopped. And today he just received the first grand prize for his legacy since the government has granted him the great cross of the civil order of Alfonso X El Sabio "for his brilliant career and his contribution to Spanish culture and art," this is , the highest-ranking decoration for natural persons who do not belong to high institutions or are not bosses of States.
The NOI of the Poble SEC says goodbye to the scenarios with the Vice of Sing: 1965-2022 that will begin on April 27 at the Beacon Theater in New York and ended on December 23 at the Palau de Sant Jordi of Barcelona. Born in a working family, Serrat graduated in Agronoma Engineering, but it was decided on the scenarios. He was part of the Nova Cançó Catalan, which influenced that he would demand from singing in that language at the 1968 EUROVISION FESTIVAL, the one, the compound by the dynamic duo and that would finally sing Massiel, achieving the first place. Of his fist and lyrics sent letters to several means in which he affirmed: "I am and I continue to be, above all, a catalan singer, and in this language I have expressed myself to sing for four years. (...) A man It must be faithful to himself and to the people who are faithful to him. "
He never came to clear what happened really, but when Serrat began to sing in Sant Jordi's language, the members of Nova Cançó considered him a traitor. Aware of his attractiveness, he knew that women wished him, but it was with the Mercedes Doménech model with whom he had such a serious romance that his son Queco was born in 1969, who has already made Grandfather for double departure, Luna (24) and Lucia (twenty). They never got married, which was a scandal for the time, but the child always had a paternal reference that never missed his obligations.
After the separation, the singer-songwriter had a brief relationship with the Danish model Susan Holmquist whom he dedicated the Conillet theme of Vellut (Velvet Bunny) and that for lovers of literature he will always be remembered as the late afternoon face with Teresa de Juan Marsé; Then came Marisol, with whom he lived his love of him in an apartment of the singer next to the Camp Nou; Very fleeting was what she had with Charo Vega (Granddaughter of Pastor Empire) and Lolita stayed with her desire because she told her that she still had to mature.
In 1971, Joan Manuel Serrat published his hymn par excellence, Mediterranean, one of the favorite songs of the daughter of La Farana. At the homonymous album they also lightened Lucia and Tío Alberto, a tender tribute to Alberto Puig Palau, the businessman and patron who lived a torrid romance with Dolores del Río in Hollywood and in whose property of the Costa Brava, Mas Juny, organized the best parties From the moment with Ava Gardner, Dalí, Grace Kelly and Rainiero III of Monaco, among others.
And the great love of his life appeared, Candela Tiffon, a young and discreet advertising model daughter of the Barcelona Show Fair with whom he married himself civilly in 1978. They have two daughters, Mary (42) and Candela (35 ). The first lives in Australia after marrying an attractive coach with whom he has two children, Oliver (4) and Stuart (2) and the second became a grandfather last year of a girl named Mérida, fruit of his relationship with the actor Dani Muriel (44).
Singer of stories in Spanish and Catalan, Serrat has been very critical with the independence whose members have come to accuse him of fascist. But he is clear about the referendum since he assures that "I do not give me the feeling that I can represent anyone" and about the Proceders who was "the nonsense fair".
Tireless worker, Serrat has been able to invest very well its income in real estate distributed in Barcelona, Madrid, the Costa Brava and Menorca, where he loves to sumimate up with his friends Mercedes Mila, Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel. In addition, he has farms, garages and even a wine enterprise. In the memory of several generations still follow the songs of him together with other greats like Miguel Ríos, Víctor Manuel and Ana Belén (the taste is ours). Tonight he visits the anthill.
Date Of Update: 07 December 2021, 18:31
