Ramon Muntaner
Ramon Muntaner
Person from Spain
Genres: catala, folk, cataluna
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About Ramon Muntaner
Ramon Muntaner i Torruella (Cornellà de Llobregat, 1950) was one of the singer-songwriters of the Nova Cançó movement, acting under the name of Ramon Muntaner. After composing music for theatre, in 1972 he won the competition for the Promotion of New Voices. He became known above all in 1974 as the opening act for Lluís Llach. That same year Edigsa published an SG with four songs where he already presented himself as a performer full of strength and sensitivity at the same time. In 1975 his first album, Cançó de carrer, appeared, setting several poets to music and obtaining great success especially among young audiences. The recognition is due to his good musical training, to being one of the first to surround himself with a good group of musicians, and to his appearance with long hair, together with a considerable vocal aggressiveness not incompatible with great tenderness. The second album, Presagi, appeared the following year dedicated monographically to the poetry of Miquel Martí i Pol. In 1977 he signed with Movieplay and released his third album, Chronicles, again providing music to different poets. The following year, in collaboration with Joan Ollé, he published a totally unitary album about childhood during the fifties in Barcelona. These are Veus de lluna and celobert, which he performs in one-run recitals. Their next album was released in 1979 and was called Balades i cançons. The second side is fully dedicated to poems by Josep Maria de Sagarra. A few great arrangements by Manel Camp round off his work which, however, does not have much popular impact. It was not until 1982 that he released two new albums. On the one hand, the soundtrack of the film La plaça del Diamant, and on the other, El pas del temps, again with texts by Joan Ollé. The latest album, Fugida, comes out at a time when he is practically away from the stage. It is made up entirely of texts by Vicenç Villatoro. From that moment on, he took charge of the Echoes office for musical diffusion, then he led the programming of the L'Espai room, and from 1996 he became director of the SGAE.
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