Joaquín Carbonell
Joaquín Carbonell Martí (12 August 1947 – 12 September 2020) was a Spanish singer-songwriter, journalist and poet. Biography Carbonell was born in Alloza, Teruel, the son of a Republican teacher. He studied in a Salesian institute in Barcelona, but at age 15 he dropped out of school and started working in a hotel. For some years he worked as a waiter and sommelier in various resorts on the Catalan coast in summer, and in his family's oil mill in Alloza in winter; in 1967 he resumed his studies at the Ibáñez Martín Institute in Teruel, where he started writing about music. During the 1970s, Carbonell started writing songs and was among the founders of the "new Aragonese song" movement, along with his mentor José Antonio Labordeta. He recorded more than a dozen albums as a singer-songwriter, two of which were dedicated to the figure of French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens. Carbonell also directed and presented several TVE television programs in Aragon. He also started working as a poet and narrator, as well as a journalist for El Periódico de Aragón, in which he wrote a section of interviews and television criticism under the title "Antena paranoica". As a musician, he created