‘Mediterranean’ turns 50: the album that elevated Serrat to the pinnacle of Spanish music

It is 1971, Spain, without knowing it, was about to listen to the masterpiece of Spanish music. Meanwhile, ‘El Lute’ escapes from prison, Isabel Preysler marries Julio Iglesias and the Burgos Process, which occurred in the late 1970s, accelerates the end of the dictatorship.

In this context, Joan Manuel Serrat, who had already been standing out for years, reaches for the sky with ‘Mediterranean’. He is only 28 years old.

To a young Serrat, from a humble family of Poble Sec from Barcelona, ​​he did not like to keep quiet so much that for criticizing Francoism in Mexico he had to go into exile for a year because a search and capture order weighed on him. He was ordered to remove all his records, including those dedicated to Miguel Hernández and Antonio Machado, poets who were under reprisal.

Since then, it has been on tours where Serrat has shown that he is still one of the most beloved artists in Spain and Latin America. We saw him live with Sabina and this last solo tour. From which she says goodbye definitively with three concerts in Barcelona 57 years after starting her career.