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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