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- 1 2 "Jorge Luis Prats Soca" (in Spanish). Cubarte. 2014. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ Carpentier, Alejo (1987), Ese músico que llevo dentro (in Spanish), Siglo XXI, p. 445, ISBN 968-23-1394-5 , retrieved 2017-11-29CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ "El Consejo de Ministros concede la nacionalidad española al pianista Jorge Luis Prats Soca" (in Spanish). Ministry of Justice of Spain. 11 March 2005. Retrieved 17 February 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
