The musician and cultural manager Marc Lloret has died at age 51, after having announced a year ago he suffered from lung cancer in an advanced state, with metastasis in the bones, as his representation office has reported this Sunday, Fina Estampa. Lloret was one of the founders, in 1999, of the Mishima Music Band, along with David Carabén, the singer, and Christian Aloy.
Apart from his passage through Mishima, with whom he remained active while possible, Lloret had been part of various musical formations before achieving public success. In the past he exercised in the main voice of Ampus Crus and later worked with the Orange Group, a kind of seminal band of what would later be Mishima.
He even developed a parallel project with the name of happiness Blanch, in reference to what was the mother of the three poets Panero: Leopoldo, Michi and Juan Luis. Additionally, and at the level of cultural management, Lloret was director of the Vic Living Music Market during fourteen editions. Training journalist, also promoted the Poparb Festival of Arbúcies, in the Selva region.
Mishima’s soul
“The soul of Mishima” leaves us, the band that Lloret “founded in 1999 together with David Carabén and Christian Aloy, and from which only the disease has been able to separate him,” said the statement sent by the representatives of the group. His piano melodies are “a fundamental part of some of the best songs in the recent pop history made in Catalonia,” says the band in it. Lloret leaves behind a race with ten albums and hundreds of concerts with Mishima in the last 25 years.
On the other hand, his experience in the record world and editorial allowed him to access the artistic direction of the Viva de Vic Music Mercat during fourteen editions. His stage at the head of the musical event, with Maria Lladó and Oriol Roca as advisors, closed last September with the unanimous recognition of the sector when Lloret publicly announced his illness.
“Above all, we are leaving Violeta and Guillem, Maria’s husband, Pere and Paquita’s son, Sergi and Gemma’s brother,” says the band in the statement. “And, above all, our friend: serious and always ingenious, generous, honest and complete as no one, a great artist and an exceptional person,” they add.
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