The singer and composer Joan Manuel Serrat has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2024. Serrat is one of the most prominent figures of modern song. His songs are part of the emotional memory of several generations in Spain and Latin America, both in Catalan and Spanish, two languages that he has promoted, far from any confrontation, from a natural balance as vehicles of harmony and understanding. He has set music to poems by Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Pablo Neruda, Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano, among others.
This Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts joins many other recognitions who has received the Poor Sec. From the SGAE Gold Medal of the year to the National Culture Award of Catalonia also in 2023 or an honorary Latin Grammy for his entire career in 2014, numerous Honoris Causas from Universities, an Ondas award for lifetime achievement, National Prize for Current Music, Gold Medal from the city of Barcelona, Gold Medal for Merit at Work and, as an unparalleled detail, his song ‘Mediterráneo’ was chosen by ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine in 2006 as the best song in history in the Spanish language.
With this award, the composer follows in the footsteps of other musicians awarded with a Princess of Asturias for the Arts, such as Carmen Linares, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Bob Dylan, Ricardo Mutti, Paco de Lucía and Joaquín Rodrigo.
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