On May 20, the festival that will have a conversation between Joan Manuel Serrat and Sergio Ramírez. “It is a dialogue between a great music and lyrics and the creator of this festival,” adds director of the Central America and Cultural Manager.
The Spanish who was born December 27, 1943 He has recorded more than 500 songs, 40 albums and has put music to the verses of the most laureate poets.
During the inauguration, the legacy of Miguel Ángel Asturias will also be delivered to the Caja de las Letras, project of the Cervantes Institute that will be received by Luis García Montero, director of the sameand with the presence of President Bernardo Arévalo as a witness.
Joan Manuel Serrat enters the box of letters
Excited, Joan Manuel Serrat celebrated this Thursday, April 10 the delivery of his legacy in the Lyrics box of the Cervantes Institute And he claimed the inheritance of Don Quixote, “That in the 21st century it will be very badly stopped, much worse than what came out in its original time.”
“I have not done practically anything in life thinking that I was going to leave any legacy to anyone and anythingor when my children were born. They have been things that have happened in life, to which I am very grateful because it has allowed me to exercise a trade that has made me very happy, that has allowed me to express myself and meet others, ”the Spanish singer told the press at the beginning of the tribute.
Serrat spread his music both to Spain and Latin America with compositions like Mediterraneanconsidered as one of the best songs in Spanish of all time.
In what was the battleship of the old Spanish bank of Rio de la Plata the singer left the original score of that song Mediterranean, With his annotations, as well as a copy “that is broken” by the first album he recorded in 1965 and an specimen of an anthology of Miguel Hernández that he used to music in another of his emblematic albums the verses of the Spanish poet.
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“I feel very excited to have to leave them. Can I remove them at some point?”he asked with humor when depositing them in box number 1,276, along with the first portable typewriter he had, with which he traveled around the world and filled “many hours when dreams wanted to capture paper.”
The director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, He recognized, among those compartments that already enclose “the best inheritances of the past in a commitment to the past”, the creative power of his lyrics and his dialogue with the poetry of the aforementioned Hernández, of Alberti or Machado among many others.
“Dear Nano, you have taught us to live with verses in the mouth,” he said, after affirming, paraphrasing him, that “receiving his legacy is a party.”
This act was in turn framed in the delivery made by the Association of Editors of Madrid of the Antonio de Sancha 2025 Award “for being an example of personal and intellectual honesty, and in recognition of his work as part of the sentimental education of several generations of Spaniards and Americans.”
After more than six decades of race, Serrat retired from the stage in 2022 with a last tour, The vice of singing 1965-2022 He took him by stages from all over America and Spain, with which he wanted to say goodbye to the public with which he had shared life and songs for more than half a century, ‘he said.
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With information from EFE.