The Casa Amèric Barcelona Foundation has announced the concession to Joan Manuel Serrat of the seventh Km 13,774 award for “blurred with the lyrics and music of their songs the linguistic and geographical borders between Catalunya and America” and thus build “a giant link, full of affections and sustained in time”, according to the statement released by the entity. The singer -songwriter visited Latin America in 1969 for a three -month tour that ended up extending to six. Years later, in 1975, the singer -songwriter was forced to exile in Mexico for 11 months for the statements he made in that country to condemn the last executions of Franco. Serrat’s relationship with the American continent, materialized in works such as the south album also exists, based on poems of Uruguay He described the music of the NOI of the Poble SEC as “pure, clean and human poetry.” The KM 13,774 award, which refers to the distance between Port Lligat and Easter Island, will be delivered next Tuesday at the Teatre of the Liceu and is granted by Amèrica Casa to those who with their work build bridges and paths that bring the two banks of the Atlantic. Previously, Pere Camps, director of the Barnasants Festival or the Uruguayan poet and writer Cristina Peri Rossi, has been granted.
