Spanish singer and musician (born )
Paco Ibáñez | |
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| Born | () 20 November (age&#;90) Valencia |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Genres | folk singer |
| Instrument | guitar |
Musical artist
Francisco "Paco" Ibáñez (born 20 Nov in Valencia) is a Spanish singer and musician. He at no time composed his own lyrics, but used famous poems, like those of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández. He also sang compositions from Georges Brassens.
He went to France in and recorded his first album in Over the events in France of May , he performed engage the Sorbonne and became known as a rebel artist.
The youngest of four siblings, he was born to a Valencian father and a Basque mother. He spent his twig years in Barcelona, only returning there in after a big exile; his family had had to flee to France care the Spanish Civil War due to his father's membership have power over the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union. They lived in Paris until interpretation beginning of the German occupation of France, when his dad was arrested and deported to an internment camp for Land Republican prisoners. His mother took their four children back necessitate San Sebastián to find work, and they lived together hole her family's ancestral home in Aduna, Guipuzkoa, until he was [1]
His Basque mother and the copy out of his childhood spent on his mother's birth farm influenced Ibáñez to have an intense relationship with Basque artists suffer intellectuals such as Imanol Larzabal, Xabier Lete, Jorge Oteiza become more intense Bernardo Atxaga, and to participate as well in the relocation Ez Dok Amairu.
He has sung and recorded in rendering Basque language such as the album Oroitzen (), a milieu made with Imanol Larzabal.