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Since December 1
Joan Manuel Serrat (77) will announce that he is retiring from the stage, the applause and praise for one of the great eminences among Spanish-speaking singer-songwriters has not ceased. And today he has just received the first grand prize for his legacy since the government has awarded him the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise "for his
brilliant career and his contribution to Spanish culture and art",
that is , the highest ranking decoration for individuals who do not belong to the High Institutions or are not heads of States.
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Noi del Poble Sec
says goodbye to the stage with the tour
El vicio de cantar: 1965-2022
that will begin next April 27 at the Beacon Theater in New York and will end on December 23 at the Palau de Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Born into a working class family,
Serrat graduated in agronomic engineering, but opted for the stage.
He was part of the Catalan Nova Cançó, which influenced him to demand that he sing in that language at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest the song
La, la,
composed by the Dynamic Duo and which
Massiel would finally sing
, achieving first place. In his own handwriting, he sent letters to various media in which he stated:
"I am and continue to be, above all, a Catalan singer,
and in this language I have expressed myself to sing for four years. (...) A man has to be faithful to himself and to the people who are faithful to him" .
It was never clear what really happened,
but when Serrat began to sing in the language of Sant Jordi, the members of the Nova Cançó considered him a traitor. Aware of his attractiveness, he knew that women wanted him, but it was with the model
Mercedes Doménech with whom he had such a
serious
affair
that in 1969
his son Queco was born,
who
has
already made
him a double grandfather
, Luna (24) and Lucía. (twenty).
They never got married, which was a scandal for the time,
but the boy always had a parental reference that never missed his obligations.
After the separation, the singer-songwriter had a
brief relationship with the Danish model Susan Holmquist
to whom he dedicated the song
Conillet de vellut
(velvet bunny) and that for lovers of literature will always be remembered as the face of
Last Afternoons with Teresa
de Juan Marsé;
then Marisol would arrive,
with whom his love lived part in a little apartment of the singer next to the Camp Nou; It was very fleeting what she had with
Charo Vega
(Pastora Imperio's granddaughter) and
Lolita was left with the desire
because she told her that she still had to mature.
In 1971, Joan Manuel Serrat published his hymn par excellence,
Mediterráneo
, one of the favorite songs of the daughter of Faraona.
The homonymous album also includes
Lucía
and
Tío Alberto
, a tender tribute to
Alberto Puig Palau
, the businessman and patron who lived a torrid romance with Dolores del Río in Hollywood and on whose property on the Costa Brava,
Mas Juny
, organized the best parties of the moment with Ava Gardner, Dalí, Grace Kelly and Rainier III of Monaco, among others.
Serrat and his wife, Candla Tiffon, in 2015.
And
the great love of his life appeared, Candela Tiffon
, a young and discreet advertising model
daughter of the person in charge of the Barcelona Trade Fair
with whom he married civilly in 1978.
They have two daughters, María (42) and Candela (35 )
. The first lives in Australia after marrying an attractive coach with whom she has two children, Oliver (4) and Stuart (2) and the second made him a grandfather last year to a girl named
Mérida
, the result of her relationship with the actor Dani Muriel (44).
A singer of stories in Spanish and Catalan, Serrat has been
very critical of the independence movement
whose members
have come to accuse him of being a fascist
. But he is clear about the referendum since he assures that "it does not give me the feeling that I can represent anyone" and about the
process
that was "the nonsense fair."
A tireless worker, Serrat has been able to invest his income very well in
real estate in Barcelona, Madrid, the Costa Brava and Menorca,
where he loves spending the summer with his friends
Mercedes Milá, Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel.
In addition, it owns
farms, garages and even a wine company
.
In the memory of several generations, his songs are still present along with other greats such as Miguel Ríos, Víctor Manuel and Ana Belén (
The taste is ours
).
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