Maria del Mar Bonet

Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer

Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (born April 27, 1947 in Palma ) is a Spanish singer from Mallorca .

She learned pottery at an art school, but decided to become a singer. In 1967 she came to Barcelona , where she initially sang with the group Els Setze Jutges , who u. a. and Lluís Llach belonged. Your song Què volen aquesta gent? from 1968 became an internationally known charge of the Francoist regime and was initially banned from performing. Since then she has been regarded as an outstanding representative of the Catalan movement of Nova Cançó and publishes popular and other songs in the Catalan language , even at the time when this was banned by the Franco dictatorship. She performed nationally and also in the Soviet Union , Tunisia , the Netherlands , Poland , Italy , Japan , Portugal , Belgium , France , Great Britain , Brazil , Sweden , Switzerland , Venezuela and Mexico .

In 1981 Bonet recorded the record Jardí tancat ('The Closed Garden') in Paris , accompanied by Jacques Denjean and the Breton harpist Alan Stivell .

She was awarded the French Academic Charles Cross, the Catalan Creu de Sant Jordi and the National Prize of the Catalan Government.

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SURNAME	Bonet, Maria del Mar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bonet i Verdaguer, Maria del Mar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	spanish singer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palma , Mallorca, Spain