An Entire Life. Something personal with Joan Manuel Serrat

The authorized biography of Joan Manuel Serrat on the occasion of his definitive retirement from the stage.

Serrat’s music has become the soundtrack of various generations. And the journalist Juan Ramón Iborra uses the musician as his own particular Proust’s madeleine, interspersing in this book the meetings and interviews between the two since their first meeting in 1973 at the airport of Granada. It was there, as a child, that the author went to wait for him with his father, who was a childhood friend of his first manager, José María Lasso de la Vega. And the story has continued right up to the present…

This is not only a biography of Serrat, but a portrait of an entire period and an entire country, from the singer’s birth in 1943 to his last concert in 2022. A story told through the eyes of the journalist who has followed him since he first heard him as a child on Radio Granada, in the very earliest days, and began to ask relatives who had moved to Barcelona to send him his first records that had been recorded in Catalan on the Edigsa label.