A propósito de Joan Manuel Serrat

Regarding Joan Manuel Serrat, it is not just a book about him. It is the biography of a time and a country, from his birth on December 27, 1943 to his last concert on December 23, 2022 in Barcelona, seen through the eyes of a journalist and writer who has followed him since he was a child. , when he heard it for the first time and asked emigrated relatives in Barcelona to bring him his first albums recorded in Catalan. Serrat has built the soundtrack of several generations. Now, Juan Ramón Iborra writes about the Poble Sec noi as if it were a memory, interspersing chapters of their meetings and interviews, since they met in 1973, after their concert in the Valencia bullring. Serrat represents, beyond his songs, an example of honesty and well-rooted moral concepts. He was born four years after the end of the civil war into a family of losers, who suffered post-war blackmail and hardship. He knew how to climb to the top. Now that he has retired from the stage, it is worth approaching the baggage that Serrat leaves us, with a bunch of beautiful songs and foolproof ethics. And nostalgia.