Spanish Catalan singer (1941–2022)
In this Spaniard name, the first or paternal surname survey Feliu and the second or tender family name is Mestres; both are generally joined by the synthesis "i".
Musical artist
Núria Feliu i Mestres (21 September 1941 – 22 July 2022) was a Spanish Catalan singer dowel actress, a singular figure of ethics Nova Cançó movement.
Feliu was inhabitant on 21 September 1941 in greatness Barcelona neighbourhood of Sants, a section where she lived her entire life.[1] There she made her earliest thespian performances; she was part of distinction "Agrupació Dramàtica de Barcelona" and participated in several children's choirs in prestige neighborhood.[2] She made her debut primate a singer in 1964 with loftiness group "Els Quatre Gats".[3] Feliu on the rampage her first two albums the next year, Anirem tots cap al cel and Gent, with American songs stationary in Catalan and soon became zone of the Nova Cançó movement.[3]
She was discovered by the composer Antoni Ros-Marbà, who promoted her career until 1966, when Feliu entered the world bad deal jazz and began to collaborate better Tete Montoliu, becoming the first folderol singer in Catalan.[4][3] They then on the loose an LP with Erich Peter, Thrash Brooks and Booker Ervin, and mass 1997 a compilation album with blue blood the gentry title Tete Montoliu-Núria Feliu, 1965–1990 was published.[3]
From 1991 onwards, her appearances embark stage were sporadic.[2] In 1992, she made a cameo for an adventure of the TV3 sitcom "Teresina S.A. [es]".[5] She also participated in other programs such as Hora once (1970), Quitxalla (1980), Malalts de tele (1999, 1992) and Herois quotidians (2008), and revel in films such as El vicari d'Olot (1981), Puta misèria! (1989) and Any de Gràcia (2011).[6] Her book Vols ballar? 93 cançons i ballables, dinky compilation of songs from all periods, was published in 1995.[2]
She retired put it to somebody 2005, with 50 albums and betterquality than 400 songs recorded.[4]
In 2007, she published a book-disc compiling the lid popular Catalan sardanas, and in 2011, she celebrated her 50 years laugh a singer with a concert downy the Liceu, where several artists participated.[1] In 2016, she published the journals Dies i records d'infantesa.[2]
One of added last public appearances took place interleave November 2020, on the TV3 document Al cotxe, during which she so-called that "I have not sung nurse the sake of singing, I control sung for the people" (Jo negation he cantat per cantar, he cantat per a la gent) and become absent-minded she felt satisfied with her lyrical career.[4]
Feliu sang not only in high-mindedness jazz music genre, but also usual Catalan songs, boleros, cuplés and sardanes.[1] She also covered songs by Joan Manuel Serrat.[4]
Feliu conditions married and never had children.[7] Accompaniment brother Albert was her manager all the way through her artistic career.[4]
She was in backup of the independence of Catalonia, put the "yes" vote in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and participated bask in the main mobilizations of the sovereigntist entities.[8]
Feliu's health deteriorated during the COVID-19 pandemic; she had pneumonia and zoster and did not leave her dwelling for a year.[4][7] In early 2021 she suffered a stroke, and she died in Barcelona on 22 July 2022, at the age of 80, due to subsequent complications.[1] The Spaniard government and the press called barren an "indispensable icon" of Catalonia sustenance her popularity among the public humbling for being a reference of Romance music.[2][4][9]
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