Paco Ibáñez

Paco Ibáñez [ pako iβaɲeθ ] ( born November 20, 1934 in Valencia ) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. His work mainly consists of settings of poems by Spanish-speaking authors. He has been involved for decades on the part of the political left.

Life

His father was a cabinet maker and sympathized with the anarchists. He spent his early childhood in Barcelona, ​​but at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 had to flee to France the family. Pacos father was arrested in 1940 by the French police and sent to a labor camp. The mother moved then with the four children in their home province of Gipuzkoa. In 1948 they crossed the border clandestinely to France to meet his father in Perpignan.

In 1952, Ibáñez went to Paris. He accompanied there initially a singer on the guitar. In 1964 he recorded his first record, but success became apparent in the years 1968-69. In commemoration of May 68, he joined in May 1969 in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, and thus became one of the symbolic figures of the student movement. In December 1969, he sang at the Olympia in Paris for the first time La mala reputación, the Spanish translation of the song La mauvaise réputation of Brassens. He worked in 1970 in the film Goya - or the evil path of knowledge of the German director Konrad Wolf.

In Spain, Paco Ibáñez in 1971 prohibited. In 1990 he returned to Spain; Since 1994 he lives in Barcelona. In 2004, he was active against the re-election of José María Aznar, whom he considers a fascist and worthy successor of Franco.

Works

Ibáñez not usually writes the lyrics of his songs himself, but set to music va Poems of Spanish and Latin American poets of the 20th century, including

There are also a whole album with interpretations of Brassensliedern: Paco Ibáñez canta Brassens, as well as settings of older poets like Luis de Góngora and Jorge Manrique.

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