CARLES GÁMEZ
From his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns in our ears, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed popular music in the 20th century.
