MARIA DEL MAR BONET:
The warmth of her voice and her passionate elegance have seduced audiences who fall under the Spanish charm of her defiant pride. Born on the island of Majorca, introduced in Barcelona to Catalan musical traditions, and then hit by censorship under the Franco regime, Maria del Mar Bonet has since become the spokesperson for Mediterranean song.
She began her first performances abroad in the early seventies in France, Denmark and England, and has visited the following countries during the course of her career: Switzerland, Venezuela, Mexico, Portugal, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Tunisia, Holland , Belgium, the former USSR and Japan.
In 1981, she recorded Jardí Tancat in Paris with arrangements by Jacques Denjean in cooperation with Alan Stivell. In 1984, the French government awarded her the Charles Cross Academy Prize for the best foreign record edited in France. That same year she was awarded the Cross of San Jordi, the highest distinction of Catalunya.
In 1985, as a result of her interest and research in North African music, she recorded Anells d’aigua with the Ensemble of Music Traditionelle di Tunis, and went on tour around France and Spain.
A year later she toured Spain with the internationally famous Brazilian musician Milton Nascimiento offering an international blend of Mediterranean music and South American rhythyms. The tour was extended to Brazil the year after.
She received the 1992 National Prize awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government) for popularizing Catalan folk music, and presented her new show The Greece of Theodorakis in Plaça del rei in Barcelona, after she recorded El las.
AUDIO / VIDEO SAMPLES:
AUDIO:
1. "Mateixa Felanitxera" - from recording: Cavall de Foc
2. "So De Pastera" - from recording: Cavall de Foc
VIDEO:
1. Maria del Mar Bonet - from recording: Concert - selection from album "Raixa"
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PRESS:
San Jose Mercury Times, The Voice of Her People 11/18/04
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Rough Guide Music, Maria Del Mar Bonet 01/01/01
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