Personalities such as the President of the Government (Generalitat) of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, have expressed their condolences for the death of the singer-songwriter.
The singer-songwriter Pau Riba, a benchmark of the Catalan alternative culture of the 60s and 70s of the last century, died this Sunday, at the age of 73, a victim of cancer, as confirmed by sources from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.
Musician, poet, and writer, he was the author of some thirty albums, among which “Dioptria” (1971) stands out, the first rock reference in Catalan.
He participated in all the editions of the historic Canet Rock Festival and established himself as a benchmark of the alternative scene in Catalan, always preserving the countercultural and combative spirit of the beginning.
Born in Palma on August 7, 1948, he began his work in the mid-1960s and his double album “Dioptria” was chosen as the best Catalan album of the 20th century by Enderrock magazine.
The artist had communicated at the end of 2021 that he had pancreatic cancer with no possibility of treatment.
Riba, a figure of Catalan music, was active until a few weeks ago when he returned to the stage accompanied by The Mortimers with “Jisàs de Netzerit or chapter zero of Star Wars”, a satire of traditional Christmas carols.
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