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Maria del Mar Bonet, Forty Years of Songs

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dimarts, 18 de setembre de 2007

Maria del Mar Bonet Verdaguer, one of the great voices of Catalan music, this year celebrates 40 years in the music industry. The anniversary is being marked by the release of a new CD: 'Terra secreta' ('Secret Land'), released this month.

'Terra secreta' includes songs from artists for which Maria del Mar Bonet feels a special fondness: Toti Soler ('Dansa d'amor'), Joan Bibiloni ('Epitalami' and 'Mai donis per finit'), Guillem d'Efak ('Blues en sol', 'Tan com te cerc'), Joan Manuel Serrat ('Cançó de l'amor petit', 'La rosa de l'adéu'), Ovidi Montllor ('Dos anònims'), etc. The first song on the CD is 'El país secret' ('Secret Country') and is a homage to the women of the English writer Robert Graves.

In May this year, Maria del Mar Bonet celebrated her 40th professional anniversary at the Palau de la Música Catalana, performing a repertoire of emblematic songs accompanied by the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès.

Also in May, she presented 'Els Treballs i els dies' ('Work and Days'), a fusion of Mediterranean sounds with the Flamenco singer from Badalona Miguel Poveda at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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VilaWeb: L'últim disc de Maria del Mar Bonet, entre els més venuts a internet.

+ Webs relacionades dins Nosaltres.Cat: Cançó i cantautors.
+ VilaWeb TV: Maria del Mar Bonet: 'I per què no?'.
+ 'Terra secreta': Lletra de les cançons d'aquest disc.

Early Days with the Setze Jutges

+ Maria del Mar Bonet joined the Setze Jutges in 1967.

Born in Palma de Majorca in 1947, Maria del Mar Bonet's musical beginnings go back to the Setze Jutges (Sixteen Judges), a musical movement that arose in the 1950s and 1960s which believed in the need to create modern Catalan songs, to restore the language and culture of the country and to resist the suffering caused by the ferocious dictatorship of Franco. Maria del Mar Bonet joined the movement in 1967. Within a year, in 1968, censorship from the Francoist regime banned her from singing 'Què volen aquesta gent?' ('What do These People Want?'), a protest song that has become one of her most famous songs.

Works

+ The Majorcan singer has made some 30 albums.

With a remarkable, intimate and sensual voice, Maria del Mar has made some 30 albums. Besides her own songs, she had made an enormous contribution to performing folk music from the Balearic Islands, especially from Majorca: 'La Balanguera', for example (with words by Joan Alcover and music by Amadeu Vives), Majorca's official anthem since 1996. She has also set to music poems by overseas poets but mainly by writers from the Catalan Countries: Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel, Joan Alcover, Joan Vinyoli, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Miquel Costa Llobera, Gabriel Janer Manila, Miquel Martí Pol, etc.

Mediterranean Voice

+ The earlier work 'Amic, amat' received critical acclaim.

But Maria del Mar Bonet has gone one step further: she has researched instrumentation and traditional music from the length and breadth of the Mediterranean, which has been the birthplace of so many civilisations. The music of this Majorcan singer has been enriched by contributions from North Africa, Greece and the Near East. It is a paradigmatic example of her earlier work 'Amic, amat' (2004), which received critical acclaim.

MATERIALS

Maria del Mar Bonet: 'I per què no?'
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Entrevista de VilaWeb TV amb la cantant mallorquina, arran del llançament de 'Terra secreta'.
Maria del Mar Bonet
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Discografia i cançoner.
Maria del Mar Bonet
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Discografia, biografia, lletres, llibres, fotografies... Accés a l'associació Amics de Maria del Mar Bonet.
Bonet, Maria del Mar
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Aplec de peces.

QUE HO SABIES?

Amongst the many distinctions bestowed on Maria del Mar Bonet include the Sant Jordi Cross from the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1984, the International Singing Award from the Charles Cros Academy in Paris (also in 1984), the Ramon Llull Award in 2000 from the Balearic Islands government.
The latest recognition extended to Maria del Mar Bonet was on 13 April when the Catalan Parliament conferred on all members of Setz Jutges the Gold Medal of Honour.
Maria del Mar Bonet has also written a book of poetry: 'Quadern de viatge' ('Travel Log'), published in 1998 and illustrated with her own paintings.