Paco Saval
Paco Saval ( born June 25, 1950 in Santiago de Chile; actually Francisco Leiva - Saval ) is a company based in Cologne, keyboardist, producer, composer and singer.
Life
Paco Saval was born in 1950 in Chile, where he already had his first recordings at the age of 15 years. 1969 moved Saval to Madrid and studied audio engineering there. From there he moved to Leeds in 1975, where he collaborated with musicians from the Leeds College of Music. 1978 Saval finally came to Cologne, where he played first together with Tato Gomez in the band Santiago, with whom he won the 1979 German Record Prize. From 1980 he played at the Food Band, then at Wolf Maahn and the deserters who Thys van Leer band She And The Band, Viva la Diva, the Burning Man Blues Band and the Band of Rosa session. Together with saxophonist Pops Delbrügge he played night show at the Soulcats, banger and the gentlemen in the band and the RTL. He toured with, among others, Rory Gallagher and Sally Oldfield.
As a producer of Band of Gold Saval composed the song " Love Songs Are Back Again", which remained several weeks in the Top 50 of the U.S. and UK charts. For Miguel Ríos he composed the song " En el parque ". Composed together with Pops Delbrügge and he produced a series of jingles for ProSieben.
Today, Paco Saval plays in the Lance Harrison and band together with tungsten Burgtorf at Burgtorf / Saval.