Vicenç Montoliu i Massana, better known as Tete Montoliu was a Spanish jazz pianist from Catalonia, Spain. Born blind, he learnt braille music at age seven. His styles varied from hard bop, through afro-Cuban, world fusion, to post bop. He recorded with Lionel Hampton in 1956 and played with saxophonist Roland Kirk in 1963. He also worked with leading American jazz musicians who toured in, or relocated to Europe including Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lucky Thompson, and Anthony Braxton. Tete Montoliu recorded two albums in the US, and recorded for Enja, SteepleChase Records, and Soul Note in Europe.
Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer is a Spanish singer from the island of Majorca.
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Ignasi Terraza is a Spanish jazz pianist.
Borja Penalba Catalá is a composer, record producer, arranger and musician. He has worked with and for, among others, Feliu Ventura, Lluís Llach, Lluís Danés, Obrint Pas, Miquel Gil, Joan Amèric, Marc Parrot, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Bruno Oro, Albert Pla, Lídia Pujol, Elena Gadel, Verdcel, Aspencat or Andreu Valor. He also was a member of the valencian rock band Dropo.
Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a youth jazz band from Barcelona, featuring 7- to 20-year-olds. The bandleader is Joan Chamorro.
Andrea Motis is a Spanish jazz trumpeter, singer, sax player and songwriter who sings in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Txarango was a Spanish (Catalan) band formed in Barcelona in 2010. Their members are musicians from the Catalan counties of Ripollès, Osona and Garrotxa. Nowadays, the band is composed of Alguer Miquel (voice), Marcel Lázara, a.k.a. Tito, Sergi Carbonell, a.k.a. Hipi (keyboard), Joaquim Canals (drums), Àlex Pujols, Pau Puig (percussion), Ivan López (saxophone) and Jordi Barnola (trumpet). They propose a musical fusion, taking Reggae as the mainstay, influenced by Dubstep, Latin music or Pop, and mixing Jamaican music, Rock and Latin sonorities. The band's early albums build upon a circus clown motif.
Francesc Freixas i Morros is a Catalan singer-songwriter. Freixas has released a sampler, seven albums, and a series of covers of international singer-songwriters as a contribution to the revitalization of the Protest song in the Catalan-speaking countries.
Raül Fernández Miró, better known as Raül Refree, is a Spanish music producer, musician and composer.
Ximo Tebar is a Spanish jazz musician.
Maria Arnal Dimas is a Spanish artist, singer and composer based in Barcelona. Her music has received great recognition from Spanish critics. She combines his facet of electronic pop and polyphonic traditional music with projects that experiment with sound, technology and art.
Francesc Burrull was a Spanish jazz musician and composer. In 2017, he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.
Joan Esteva Pomares is a former Spanish footballer and currently a football coach.
Sallent, also Sallent de Nargó, Sallent de Organyà or Sellent, is a hamlet located in the municipality of Coll de Nargó, in the comarque of Alt Urgell in the Province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 36.
Núria Feliu i Mestres was a Spanish Catalan singer and actress, a singular figure of the Nova Cançó movement.
Rita Payés Roma is a Spanish jazz and bossa nova trombonist, singer and songwriter.
WDR Big Band is the jazz big band of German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, Germany.
The Carles Riba Poetry Prize is a literary prize for Catalan-language works awarded by the Edicions Proa publishing house with funding by the Catalan Encyclopedia Foundation. The winning poem is selected from original, unpublished poems during the Literary Night of Saint Lucía, organized by the Òmnium Cultural association. It has an endowment of €5,000.
