El drama de Varsovia

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

"Esta publicación refleja un adentramiento de muchos años en el manejo didáctico del sistema marimbero y está dirigida a músicos en proceso de aprendizaje intercultural. La experiencia de la que es fruto tiene un valor fundamental en el medio, concretamente para las nuevas generaciones de músicos ecuatorianos y para los proyectos educativos académicos regionales. El lineamiento metodológico se direcciona específicamente a la pedagogía musical, y sus aportes son evidentes dentro de la academia. Sus objetivos están orientados a crear métodos de enseñanza-aprendizaje para jóvenes...

I "write my songs/ so people can sing them to me/and the day people fail me/ that day I 'm going to cry... These are famous verses whose origin we are going to find out in this book, which rescues unknown anecdotes from the composer. Reading it is, in the words of his daughter Paloma, "go on singing his songs to do not fail him."

In a journalistic style, this biography divulges facets of the life of Don Julio Mario Santo Domingo, a Colombian business owner of the beverage company Bavaria and one of South America’s richest men.