Joan Manuel Serrat is a poet, in the broadest sense of the word. First, because his lyrics are decent quality and depth of any author studied in Contemporary Literature. Second, because not only writes, but writes music for his lyrics, like the ancient bards Greco-Roman or medieval troubadours, with which it is related directly to share with them the primitive sense of poetry, when poetry was not conceived without music, but as the perfect symbiosis between it and the word.

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Of all his original work my favorite song is none other than Mediterranean, chosen in 2004 as the best Spanish folk song and belonging to the self-titled album released in 1971.

The album 'Mediterranean' is, in the words of its author, "a handful of songs that were written between August and November 1971 in Calella de Palafrugell (Girona), Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa) and Cala d'Or (Mallorca). Always by the sea. " The first track, which gives the album its name, had a first title was 'I love the sea' and a second working title was 'Son of the Mediterranean'. Below the video I uploaded to youtube.