Joan Manuel Serrat was selected as Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy announced Tuesday the organization that delivers the Latin Grammy.
The singer of such classics as Mediterranean, and Penelope Those little things will be honored for their `` social and artistic achievements and for his contribution to Hispanic culture ', the Academy said in a statement.
"His deep and brilliant compositional style, his poetry in both Spanish and Catalan, his lyrical style coupled with its unique and magnificent talent Joan Manuel Serrat make a treasured and legendary 'musical figure," said Gabriel Abaroa Jr., President and executive director of the Latin Recording Academy, said in the letter. '' through his talent, art, passion and dedication to his craft, his work has come to his fans around the world.'s a privilege to recognize a man with such an illustrious career and socially conscious, and look forward to this celebration to their creativity and legacy ', he added.
The tribute will be on November 19 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, on the eve of Latin Grammy in a star studded ceremony in which friends and colleagues Serrat will sing some of their most popular songs. A portion of the net proceeds from the gala will benefit the Cultural Latin Grammy Foundation, which provides scholarships, grants and educational programs to low-income students.
Serrat is the most outstanding singers of the Nueva Canción de Catalunya, a movement of artists identified with social or political issues. His poetic lyrical invitation to reflect on the effect of the simple, everyday, love and heartbreak and attachment to the land and nature.
His music has resonated for generations, from contemporaries like Joan Baez to younger artists such as Shakira, who also praised the charm of his voice and harmonious compositions.
"Joan Manuel has become a true symbol of freedom, consistency, quality and perfection in the use of language, and a reference that we all have to try to achieve our goals, '' Shakira, who was Person of the Year in 2011 said cited in the statement of the Academy.
Baez, meanwhile, highlighted the work of music composition made Serrat poems of Miguel Hernández, of which themes emerge as and for freedom, Nanas onion and Elegy '.
"Joan Manual Serrat took this little poem Hernandez arrived with three wounds and turned it into an even more beautiful song that captivates you with its simplicity, '' said the troubadour and songwriter States.` `I fell in love with the song and I recorded it in 1974 and I'm still singing '.
During his prolific career has also musicalizado Serrat works of poets such as Antonio Machado, Mario Benedetti, Rafael Alberti, Leon Felipe, Jaime Sabines and Ernesto Cardenal. He is also known for his collaborations with Joaquín Sabina, Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel and Miguel Ríos, among other artists.
Some of his later works are orchestral album The Titanic, 2012, and the documentary The symbol and Connect, 2013, on his tour with Sabina for Spain and Latin America.
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