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In About  Barcelona we have information of things that are happening in the city, events, fairs, congresses, or popular events that will take place together with Festivals and Concerts, Sporting Events and Art Exhibitions. Also information on interesting places to vist and what we like to call our favourite places, museums and outdoor sculptures. And if you are interested, we can provide your Barcelona Accommodation for your stay during the events, congresses or Festivals you are willing to participate.
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Norah Jones - L'Auditori - Barcelona

Norah Jones - L'Auditori - Barcelona  Norah Jones will be back in Barcelona on September 20 in l’Auditori of Barcelona. Jones has been performing during this 2012 at a mixture of festivals, amphitheatres and theatres in the US and now she is in her European tour presentation of her new album Little Broken Hearts. Norah Jones (Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, born March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress, daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones.  In 2002 Norah Jones released her first solo album Come Away with Me, a fusion of jazz, pop, and country music that was commercially...
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Andreas Scholl in Barcelona

Andreas Scholl in Barcelona Andreas Scholl will perform at the Gran Teatre del Liceu works by Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Georg Friedrich Händel, Thomas Campion, and Joseph Hayden, accompanied on piano by Tamar Halperin. Andreas Scholl, born 10 November 1967, is a German countertenor specialized in Baroque music. His range, male classical singer in the alto vocal range, is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom Handel wrote his greatest alto roles. All of his family members were singers. At age 13, Andreas Scholl sang the second boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at...

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Nińa Pastori sings Christmas Carols

Nińa Pastori sings Christmas Carols Festival de Flamenco 2011 - Palau de la Musica The Festival De Cajón! will offer tonight, 3 January, a lively holiday appetizer prior to official program of the Festival that will start on 11 February 2011. After nearly 15 years of career and seven albums published Niña Pastori will be singing flamenco carols at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. Niña Pastori wanted to offer something different to the audience and decided to show how her family celebrates the Christmas. The concert tonight in Barcelona will mark the end of this tour that she has...

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Motörhead - The World Is Yours

Motörhead - The World Is Yours To coincide with the release of their upcoming 20th studio album, The World Is Yours, Motörhead will embark on a UK tour in November 2010 and on a European tour in December 2010, being on stage in Barcelona on December 17 in the Sant Jordi Club concert stage. The British  group Motörhead is a rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Ian Fraser Kilmister (the only  constant member of the band) , known mostly by his stage name Lemmy. The rock/heavy-metal band,  usually a power trio, had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles...

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Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball Tour

Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball Tour The Monster Ball Tour is the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga in support of her second studio album, The Fame Monster. The Monster Ball Tour began November 27, 2009, four days after the release of The Fame Monster album, and a month later that her previous concert Tour with rapper Kanye West, titled Fame Kills, was suddenly canceled. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born in New York in March 1986) is an American recording artist, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga. She began performing in the Lower East Side rock music scene of New York City's in 2003 and enrolled at New...

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Shakira Live in Concert - Barcelona

Shakira Live in Concert - Barcelona Shakira Live In Concert, the Tour of Earthly Delights, is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf, due out in October 2009, and Sale El Sol, that will be released on October 2010. The tour starts on September 15, 2010, in Canada, continues with several concerts in the United States and arrives to Europe in November being in Barcelona on November 24th at the Palau Sant Jordi. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known professionally as Shakira, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer,...

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Recital Jonas Kaufmann at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona

Recital Jonas Kaufmann at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann accompanied on the piano by Helmut Deutsch will give a recital in The Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona on October 10 with songs by Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert and others. After his notable successful debut in the 99th Bayreuth Festival in August 2010 on the role of Wagner’s Lohengrin, staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons, and before coming to Barcelona he will be playing the role of Maurizio in Francesco Cilea’s Adraina Lecouvreur at the German Opera of Berlin in a concert performance and the song cycle, from Franz Schubert,...

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Manuel González - Masters of the Spanish Guitar

Manuel González - Masters of the Spanish Guitar Within the 2010 Concert Season Masters of the Spanish Guitar (Mestres de la Guitarra Espanyola) Manuel González presents a very interesting program formed by different pieces from some very well known Spanish Composers such as Joaquin Rodrigo (Aranjuez ma pensée), Isaac Albeniz (Asturias and Sevilla from the Suite Espanyola), Ferran Sor (Introducció, tema i variació, op. 9), Francesc Tarrega (Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Jota Aragonesa) and Gaspar Sanz with arrangements by himself (Fantasia Española). Manuel González is a guitarist, born in Barcelona,...

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Michael Bublé - Crazy Love Tour

Michael Bublé - Crazy Love Tour Michael Bublé will start on September 24 in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin the second group  of the European concerts of his Crazy Love World Tour and will be in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on October 30, 2010, and in Madrid at the Palacio de Deportes on October 31 in the two only concerts he will give in Spain. Michael Steven Bublé was born in 9 September 1975, and is a Canadian singer, actor and songwriter. He has won several awards, including two Grammy Awards (2008 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album – Call me Irresponsible and in 2010, the Michael Bublé...

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Guns N'Roses - Democracy World Tour

Guns N'Roses - Democracy World Tour Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour is the current concert tour to promote the group's long-delayed album Chinese Democracy. The tour first leg in 2001featuring three U.S. dates and a Brazilian one, while the 2002 tour included Asian, North American and a few European dates. The third leg did not start until May 2006, when it toured North America again and performed a major tour of Europe. The band's tour continued in 2007 with shows in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Mexico and their first show after the release of Chinese Democracy (Nov 23, 2008) was held on Dec  2009 in Taiwan. For...

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Peter Gabriel - New Blood Tour

Peter Gabriel - New Blood Tour Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950  Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter, soundtrack composer and innovator in visual presentation of music, music videos and digital methods of recording and distributing music. He became popular being the lead singer and flautist of the  rock band Genesis. Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart.. After several years of success of the band Gabriel's departure from Genesis was the result of different factors, but mainly his stature as...

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Supertramp - The 70-10 Tour

Supertramp - The 70-10 Tour To celebrate 40 years in the business, since the release in 1970 of their first album “Supertramp”, Rick Davies and some of the members of group are back on stage with their European 70-10 Tour. Supertramp, a British progressive rock band, released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1969, Roger Hodgson, joined Rick Davies in the formation of the group with other members including Richard Palmer (guitar, balalaika, vocals) and Robert Millar (percussion, harmonica). Initially, Roger Hodgson sang and played bass guitar (and, on the side, guitar, cello...

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Roxy Music at Sonar 2010

Roxy Music at Sonar 2010 The English group Roxy Music will be performing in Barcelona during the Sonar 2010 Festival. The group formed in 1971 by art school graduate Bryan Ferry, the group's vocalist and chief songwriter, Phil Manzanera on the guitars, Andy Mackay playing saxophone and oboe, Paul Thompson on the drums and percussion  and Brian Eno with the synthesizer and "treatments" attained popular and critical success in the UK and Europe during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983 Ferry dissolved the band and they devoted themselves to their solo careers. In 2001 Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson...

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Aerosmith in Barcelona

Aerosmith in Barcelona Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour 2010 The rock band Aerosmith will be in the Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona on Sunday June 27 for the only concert that the band will perform in Spain. The rock band is celebrating the 40 years of the group, and in this concert they will review their entire career with their best hits like 'Dream On' and 'Sweet Emotion'. Aerosmith is an American hard rock band many times  referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston” which through the years has gone from their roots blues-based hard rock mixing with elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues....

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Sebastian Cruz-Raul Cantizano

Sebastian Cruz-Raul Cantizano The young voice of Sebastian Cruz will be singing in Barcelona accompanied on the guitar by Raul Cantizano in a Concert organized by the Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa El Dorado on April 15. Sebastian Cruz Marquez, born in 1977 in Beas, province of Huelva, is a singer from family tradition. Since he was 12 years he has been singing in parties, clubs and festivals and he was   awarded with a scholarship from the Cristina Herdeen Foundation where he could receive lessons from maestros in the Flamenco art like José de La Tomasa, Calixto Sánchez, Paco Taranto o Esperanza...

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Pat Metheny, The Orchestrion Tour

Pat Metheny, The Orchestrion Tour Pat Metheny will open then 21 Guitar Festival of Barcelona, on Febrary 21 in L'Auditori, presenting his new project, entitled Orchestrion, in which he develops a new idea: the "solo ensemble”. Metheny alone on stage offers a very special journey with a new technology developed through the work of a complete year, and that forms part of his last album, recorded in this format. The Orchestrion Project is a leap into new territory. This project represents a recently developed conceptual direction that involves the merging of an idea from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with...

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Eros Ramazzotti returns to Barcelona

Eros Ramazzotti returns to Barcelona Presenting his last studio album Ali e Radici Eros Ramazzotti will be in the Palau Sant Jordi on February 15th after his concert in Madrid on February 13th. Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter and one of the most popular artists in Italy and not only well known in most non English-speaking European countries but also in most of the Spanish-speaking countries as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish. In this world tour that will take Eros Ramazzotti throughout Europe and America...

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Soweto Gospel Choir

Soweto Gospel Choir Within the Barcelona Gospel Festival, Els Grans Del Gospel, in its 11th edition the Soweto Gospel Choir will be performing in Barcelona on the 17th of December in the Palau de la Musica Catalana. Formed in November of 2002, by promoters/presenters Andrew Kay, David Vigo and Clifford Hocking, in association with Executive Producer/Director Beverly Bryer and Musical Director David Mulovhedzi, Soweto Gospel Choir’s has achieved already several major music awards, in between others two Grammy Awards in different years, a Helpmann Award, Australia’s prestigious Performing Arts Award...

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Madonna - Sticky & Sweet Tour

Madonna - Sticky & Sweet Tour Madonna is back to Barcelona with the Sticky & Sweet Tour. Is the eighth concert tour by this American singer and songwriter to support her eleventh studio album Hard Candy. THE TOUR that started in August 23 of 2008 and was a major success in 2008, and it’s Madonna's first major venture from her new recording and business deal with Live Nation, following the Hard Candy Promo Tour. The tour gained many achievements in 2008, including becoming the highest grossing tour by a solo artist, breaking the previous record that she had achieved with her 2006 Confessions Tour. During August...
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U2 - 360 degrees Tour

U2 - 360 degrees Tour The U2 360° Tour will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Gothenburg, Gelsenkirchen, Chorzow, Zagreb, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22. U2 will open the tour with two concerts,  June 30 (sold out) and July 2, In Barcelona at the Camp Nou featuring an innovative stage design for fans to enjoy the show from every angle. The U2 360º tour is sponsored by Blackberry and it is the first stadium concert since the Vertigo Tour in 2005/06. The tour follows...
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JOAN MANUEL SERRAT

JOAN MANUEL SERRAT Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Catalan singer-songwriter, born in December 27 of 1943 in Barcelona, Considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages, Joan Manuel Serrat started singing only in Catalan and after he had established him as one of the most important artists inside the Nova cançó movement in Catalonia, he opened also to sing in Spanish. He became involved with music at the age of 17, when he got his first guitar, to which he dedicates one of his earliest songs, "Una guitarra." In 1965, while...

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Queen + Paul Rodgers

Queen + Paul Rodgers The new Tour 2008-2009 started on September 12 at the Freedom Square in Kharkiv and they will be in Barcelona on October 22 at the Palau Sant Jordi. This English Rock and Hard Rock Band was formed in 2004 as result of the collaboration between Paul Rodgers (former lead singer of Bad Company, Free, The Law and The Firm) and Brian May and Roger Taylor (two former members of the group Queen). Previously Guitarist Brian May had  performed with Paul Rodgers in the concert of the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar in London, September 2004, and a few weeks later, Paul Rodgers...

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LENNY KRAVITZ

LENNY KRAVITZ Pabellón Olimpico de Badalona, July 2008. Lenny Kravitz will be presenting this first studio album in four years at the Badalona Olympic Pavilion on July 8th. The success of It Is Time For A Love Revolution, Kravitz’s eighth studio album has undoubtedly been fuelled by fan anticipation for what Rolling Stone has called “the best album Lenny Kravitz has ever made — a visceral, expertly tailored blend of late-’60s and early-’70s classic rock…”. It has already spawned two red-hot singles “Bring It On,” which was featured in the NFL...

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Bon Jovi - Hard Rock Band

Bon Jovi - Hard Rock Band Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys - June 2008 The hard rock band Bon Jovi from Sayreville, New Jersey is coming to Barcelona in the only concert in Spain, to present its last album “Lost Highway”. On June 1st of 2008 they will be in the Estadi Olimpic “Lluis Companys” in Montjuic after 5 years of their last visit to Barcelona. Jon Bon Jovi and his band started this worldwide tour last October in Newark, New Jersey, with 10 concerts and more than 150.000 entrances sold. The group formed by lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist...

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WOODY ALLEN & HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND

WOODY ALLEN & HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND New Year Concert - Gran Teatre del Liceu, January 2008 The popular New York director Woody Allen will offer in Barcelona on January 1st a concert of New Year in the Gran Teatre del Liceu. His well-known passion for jazz and for the clarinet, instrument that Allen use to lead his New Orleans jazz Band, brings him to Europe with an extensive Tour. This European Tour will take Woody Allen and the New Orleans Jazz, among other cities, to London at the Hammersmith Apollo, to Paris at the prestigious Châtelet Theater, Athens, Luxembourg, Budapest, Brussels and Lisbon. In addition to the...

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TAKE THAT in Concert - Beautiful World Tour 2007

TAKE THAT in Concert - Beautiful World Tour 2007 Pavello Olimpic de Badalona - Barcelona, October 2007 The group of Manchester TAKE THAT that were so popular in the 90’s, is back with the Beautiful World Tour 2007. The UK boy band par excellence formed at the present time by Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Gary Barlow, has confirmed that the next October 20th will be at the Badalona Olympic Pavilion. They will on stage with their number ones from 90’s and also from their return to the scenes in the 2005, like "Shine"(tenth of their career). The show counts also with a great overproduction. The tour of last...

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Police in Barcelona

Police in Barcelona The Police at the Olympic Stadium, September 2007 The english musical band The Police a rock band, strongly influenced by reggae music, become one of the most popular groups in the world in the early 1980s. Formed in 1977 and, even being very popular, they stopped playing together in 1985. They reunited again after 21 years apart, on February 11th 2007 to perform at the opening act of the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. After this performance the three member of the band Sting (Gordon Summer), Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland announced a world tour during 2007. They will also be playing at the...

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Barcelona

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Barcelona Zubin Mehta –Palau de la Musica Catalana. September 2007 The European Festival Tour of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will end up in Barcelona with 2 concerts at the Palau de la Musica Catalana on September 18th and 19th. Conducted by one the most internationally acclaimed orchestral and operatic conductors of our age, Maestro Zubin Mehta, Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 1969, will be playing Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, Schoenberg, Schubert and Bardanashvili. Zubin Mehta is considered one of the world's foremost interpreters of the great symphonic literature....

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Premonicion Tour 07 in Barcelona

Premonicion Tour 07 in Barcelona David Bisbal - Palau Sant Jordi, September 2007 The singer is presenting his third album “Premonicion” that appeared on September of last year. This Premonicion Tour 07 started on March, and the first three months David Bisbal has been on tour through different countries of South and Central America going from Chile and Argentina to Mexico with more than 30 concerts. During these next four months, from June till ends of September David Bisbal will be touring Spain with more than 50 concerts in different places of the country. In Barcelona he will be presenting his show at...

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El tren de los momentos en Barcelona

El tren de los momentos en Barcelona ALEJANDRO SANZ - Palau Sant Jordi, September 2007 Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz has suspended the American tour to present his last album, “El tren de los momentos”. He had already been in Chile, Peru Argentina, Uruguay and Mejico and was still missing the concerts in United States Puerto Rico and Republica Dominicana. Sanz will retake the tour “El tren de los momentos” in August 4th in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, north of Spain) to continue with more than 20 concerts through Spain during the months of August and September; and will be in Barcelona on September...

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Norah Jones & The Handsome Band

Norah Jones & The Handsome Band In Barcelona at the Palau de la Musica, July 2007 First European tour of Norah Jones & The Handsome Band presenting Norah’s third and most personal album “Not Too Late”, collection of 13 original songs, all of which are either written or co-written by Norah herself. This American pianist and singer has enchanted the world with her warm intimate voice, with her simplicity and with her enormous talent. Already with his first record in 2002, “Come Away With me” was able to sell more than 20 million copies and won 8 Grammy Awards, including "Better recording",...

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Amar es Combatir - Mana

Amar es Combatir - Mana In Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi, June 2007 Maná returns to Barcelona to present in direct "Amar es combatir", the last and successful album of the group, with their particular Hard rock/Latin pop sound. After three years of absence of the scenes Maná is back with this World-Wide Tour in more than 100 cities and around more than 40 countries during 2007. They are without any doubt one of the most popular Mexican band of all times. Maná is a three-time Grammy Award and five-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Mexican rock band from Guadalajara whose career has...

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The Rolling Stones in Barcelona

The Rolling Stones in Barcelona At the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, June 2007 The Rollings are back on stage. With the ‘A BIGGER BANG’ TOUR 2007 they will be visiting through the summer more than 20 European countries and 30 concerts, starting on June 5th in Wercher, Belgium. This will be the time for all the European fans to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts on stage and even more for all the ones that could not see them last year when they were forced to cancel some concerts. 4 concerts in Spain: Madrid, San Sebastian, El Ejido and in Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium on June...

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La Petite Bande

La Petite Bande In Barcelona Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concertos, June 2007 During the month of June La Petite Bande (Belgium) directed by Sigiswald Kuijken, viola and violoncel 'da spalla', will be playing the Integral of Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concertos through Belgium and Spain. The orchestra takes its name and constitution from Baroque Composer Jean Baptiste Lully's own orchestra at the court of Louis XIV. All its members are internationally renowned specialists in the early music field. For more than 35 years, by using authentic instruments and the original way of playing them, both...

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Beyonce in Barcelona

Beyonce in Barcelona B’Day at the Palau Sant Jordi, May 2007 R n'B singer Beyoncé will be in Barcelona presenting her second studio album B’Day, released on September 4, 2006 worldwide. The album's title comes from the fact that September 4 is Beyoncé's birthday. B'Day was nominated for various Grammy Awards and won for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first week sales of 541,000 copies and at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is...

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Luis Miguel

Luis MiguelAt the Palau Sant Jordi, April 2007 The Mexican singer Luis Miguel is coming to Spain to celebrate his 25th Anniversary of his Musical Career. He will be singing in 9 different cities of Spain an on April 30th he will at the Palau Sant Jordi with his fans from Barcelona. Even he has Mexican passport he was born in Puerto Rico and his parents are from Italy, Marcela Basteri, and Spain, Luis Gallego. He recorded his first album at the age of 12, and through his career he has received several Grammy Awards.

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Recital Montserrat Caballé

Recital Montserrat Caballé At the Liceu Opera House, February 2007 The Concert initially scheduled for  November 26th 2006, will finally take place on 7 February 7th 2007 at 21.30 pm.It is always a pleasure and an honour to have Montserrat Caballe  singing in Barcelona and more even in the Liceu Opera house. With the company of Manuel Burguesas at the piano she will offer music from composers like Haendael, Cherubini, Niedermayer, Nicolai or Catani in the first part or Brahms, Massenet, Saint-Saëns or Goundod in the second half. Born in Barcelona, her international debut  began in New York with a...
 
 
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