Carles Sabater
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Carles Sabater i Hernández (September 21, 1962 - February 13, 1999) was a Catalan
singer and actor. Alongside an acting career in theatre, television and film, Sabater formed the group Sau
with guitarist Pep Sala
. Sau became the first rock band singing in Catalan
to achieve major commercial success and were one of the key groups of the rock català
movement.
at university, but decided to become an actor instead and was admitted to Barcelona's Institut del Teatre. In 1984 he made his debut as an actor in Una jornada particular with Josep Maria Flotats
, with whom he subsequently worked on Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1988 he starred in Manuel Huerga's film Gaudí.
.
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
singer and actor. Alongside an acting career in theatre, television and film, Sabater formed the group Sau
Sau (band)
Sau was a music group from Catalonia, which rose to fame in this area in the 1990s, being among the first groups to write pop music with Catalan lyrics, known as rock català. The band's two main members were Carles Sabater, singer, and Pep Sala, who played guitar and sometimes keyboard. Carles...
with guitarist Pep Sala
Pep Sala
Pep Sala is a Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer. With singer Carles Sabater, Sala formed the rock català group Sau, which achieved great popularity in the 1990s...
. Sau became the first rock band singing in Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
to achieve major commercial success and were one of the key groups of the rock català
Rock català
The term Rock català is used to describe those bands singing in Catalan of any music style, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.The last years of Spain under Franco were shattered by a generation of singers that claimed and called for democracy...
movement.
Acting career
Sabater originally planned to study biologyBiology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
at university, but decided to become an actor instead and was admitted to Barcelona's Institut del Teatre. In 1984 he made his debut as an actor in Una jornada particular with Josep Maria Flotats
Josep Maria Flotats
Josep Maria Flotats i Picas is a Catalan actor and theatre director.Born in Barcelona, he started as an actor in Associació Dramàtica de Barcelona, and made his theatre debut in 1957 with Les maletes del senyor Bernet....
, with whom he subsequently worked on Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1988 he starred in Manuel Huerga's film Gaudí.
Musical career
Sabater met Pep Sala in 1986 while shooting a pilot for TV3TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
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External links
- CarlesSabater.com, website in memory of Carles Sabater (in Catalan)
- Pep Sala's discography, including Sau albums (in Catalan)
- Carles Sabater at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...