Paco Ibáñez

Francisco Paco Ibáñez born 20 November 1934 in Valencia is a Spanish singer and musician He never composed his own lyrics but used famous poems like those of Federico García Lorca Luis Cernuda Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández He also sang compositions from Georges Brassens He went to France in 1952 and recorded his first album in 1964 During the events in France of May 1968 he performed in the Sorbonne and became known as a rebel artist The youngest of four siblings he was born to a Valencian father and a Basque mother He spent his first years in Barcelona only returning there in 1994 after a long exile his family had had to flee to France after the Spanish civil war due to his fathers membership of the anarchosyndicalist CNT union They lived in Paris until the beginning of the German occupation of France when his father was arrested and deported to an internment camp for Spanish Republican prisoners His mother took their four children back to San Sebastián to find work and they lived together in her familys ancestral home in Aduna Guipuzkoa until he was 14 Source Article Paco Ibáñez from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30