• Interview Pau Riba: "I carry carpetovetonic machismo in my genes"

The singer-songwriter

Pau Riba i Romeva

died on Saturday,

at the age of 73

, as confirmed by sources from the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat.

The musician announced in December 2021 that he

was suffering from pancreatic cancer

that could not be removed, but that he would undergo chemotherapy.

Born in Palma on August 7, 1948,

he began his work in the mid-1960s

and his double album

Dioptria

was chosen as the best Catalan album of the 20th century by 'Enderrock' magazine.

Transgressive and iconoclastic,

Pau Riba is a

benchmark of alternative culture

.

He has been one of the most recognized voices of music in Catalan, with

thirty records

, although he has also published

fifteen books

, including some collections of poems.

Riba had five children and lived in Tiana, in the Maresme region of Barcelona.

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