Euskaraz irakurri: Imanol, “ahots basatitik, belusezko ahotseraino”
Despite the passage of time, the writer and journalist Philip Juaristi can’t contain the emotion when talking about Imanol Larzabal (1947-2004). Her eyes shine when she remembers the close friend with whom she shared dozens of professional projects. She acknowledges that he “left her a mark of those that cannot be erased” and that he can hardly explain. Imanol loved life, loved friendship and loved love. This is how Juaristi defines him, as “an exceptional person” who “never saw him sad and in a bad mood.
In the 75th anniversary of the singer-songwriter’s birththe writer from Azkoitia reviews his life, from “that wild-voiced Imanol” to “that velvet-voiced one”. A prodigious voice that “never got old” and that was the result of “hours and hours of work”. The search for that voice was precisely one of his great obsessions, says Juaristi. “He knew that his voice and his song was what he could contribute to society.”
With that same tenacity and perseverance, he searched for melodies until they fit perfectly with each letter, because “he had a prodigious ability to set poetry to music”. He was never a friend of submitting to the rules, obligations and demands of others, he was a loose verse all his life and he had a very messy lifeAdd.
His clear position against the violence of ETA marked his professional career and he was forced to leave his homeland. “She was left alone, without an audience. But if she had had more support, she would not have had to leave.”
Imanol published more than about twenty discs in which he made a journey from social and political songs through the traditional songbook to universal poetry. Now, all this legacy has been captured in the book-album “Imanol: Kantatzen du kantuz” – edited by Elkar together with the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council–, which includes 40 masterful and unmistakable works by the musician from San Sebastian.
In the book, the texts of the journalist Elizabeth Garmendiathe pianist Carlos Gimenezthe producer Angel Valdes and his own Philip Juaristi place Imanol in the cultural and political environment of the time.
Source: Eitb
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