Paco Ibáñez
Paco Ibáñez [ ˈpako iˈβaɲeθ ] (born November 20, 1934 in Valencia ) is a Spanish songwriter . His work consists mainly of poems by Spanish-speaking authors. He has been active on the political left for decades .
Life
His father was a cabinet maker and sympathized with the anarchists . He spent his early childhood in Barcelona , but at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 the family had to flee to France . Paco's father was arrested by the French police in 1940 and taken to a labor camp. The mother then moved with the four children to their home province of Gipuzkoa . It was not until 1948 that they secretly crossed the border into France to meet their father in Perpignan .
In 1952 Ibáñez went to Paris . There he initially accompanied a singer on the guitar . In 1964 he recorded his first record, but it was not until 1968-69 that it was a success. In memory of May 68 , he appeared in the courtyard of the Sorbonne in May 1969 and thus became one of the symbolic figures of the student movement. In December 1969 he sang La mala reputación , the Spanish translation of the song La mauvaise réputation by Brassens, for the first time at the Olympia in Paris . In 1970 he worked on the film Goya - or the bad path of knowledge by the German director Konrad Wolf .
Paco Ibáñez was banned in Spain in 1971. Only in 1990 does he return to Spain; since 1994 he has lived in Barcelona. In 2004 he campaigned against the re-election of José María Aznar , whom he considers a fascist and worthy successor to Franco .
Works
Ibáñez usually does not write the lyrics of his songs himself, but sets them to music by a. Poems by 20th century Spanish and Latin American poets, including
- Rafael Alberti
- Gabriel Celaya
- Rubén Darío
- Leon Felipe
- Luis Cernuda
- Federico García Lorca
- Miguel Hernández
- José Agustín Goytisolo
- Nicolás Guillén
- Antonio Machado
- Pablo Neruda
- Alfonsina Storni
There is also an entire album with interpretations of brass songs : Paco Ibáñez canta Brassens , as well as settings by older poets such as Luis de Góngora and Jorge Manrique .
Web links
- Paco Ibáñez website (Spanish, French, Chinese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibáñez, Paco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valencia |