... la traduction française est en
cours - encore un peu de patience, s'il vous
plaît ...
SEBASTIÁN SANTA
MARíA
September
24, 1959 - October 20, 1996
October 20, 2006: this
day is the 10th anniversary of the death of Sebastián Santa
María. A good reason to finally present PIANOSANTAMARIA.com, the
official Sebastián Santa Maria to
the world of music. In the test version of this website it said,
paraphrasing Sebastián's song 'It's about':
... and it's about time someone
starts to work on writing the biography
of
Sebastián Santa María, the Chilean-Swiss music &
piano genius who
is not very widely known. Some may have heard about through his time
with the English band The Zombies. With them, replacing founding member
Rod Argent, he recorded the 1991 album 'Return of The Zombies', that
first was released in Germany; later, it came out in the UK and the USA
as well, with some track changes, as 'New World'.
But Sebastián Santa
María was much more than just the second Zombies' keyboard
player. To
quote The Zombies' lead singer Colin Blunstone: "He was a world class
piano player !" Not only in rock: he was a skilled
classical
player, who
also had a great love for all kinds of music. In Switzerland he reached
first local fame as a bar pianist in Lausanne clubs. He then moved on
to jazz-rock with the band 'Notas' and to jazz with his friend
François
Lindemann, with whom he formed 'Piano Duo' and later 'Piano Seven'.
Further, he was responsible for the reboost of the careers of the
French singers Catherine Lara and Bernard Lavilliers. His own career
ended
way too early: while recording his first solo album 'Latino',
Sebastián was diagnosed with AdrenoLeukoDistrophy (ALD). He died
in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 20st of
October, 1996. His second album 'Corpus' (of which the song 'It's
about' is the first track) was released posthumously.
This site wants to present you with everything there is to know, to
hear, to see and to read about Sebastián. But given the fact
it's just starting off, there still is a lot to do. So please forgive
us a
link that's not working the way it should, or a page that is
incomplete: we are really working hard on it ! kw
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