Javier Krahe

Javier Krahe, as he himself used to say, added a new rod to the range of the song genre in our country. With it, the air circulates with an unusual literary force and discovers unexplored corners. Known above all for his caustic lyrics about love, politics and religion, admirer of Brassens and Leonard Cohen, colleague of Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio and mentor of Joaquín Sabina and Albert Pla, he had a restless life (in his own way) and curious . As well as his songs, which have their roots in the student years in El Pilar and reach the fruitful seasons in Zahara de los Atunes, passing through the sweet Canadian self-exile in the late Franco regime, the first years of democracy and the subsequent clashes. with power. Songs such as "La hoguera", "Marieta", "Un burdo rumor", "Cuervo ingenuo", "En la costa suiza" or "No todo va a ser follar" are the flagship of the most enduring counterculture. Federico de Haro has reconstructed the life and career of Javier Krahe from the two essential ingredients in any great biography: passion and sources. The family and friends of the singer-songwriter have opened the doors of their houses to tell him everything that is not known about Krahe. The story, completed with a close examination of his personal way of composing the songs and introducing them live and with an appendix with his first lyrics (unpublished until today), results in an intimate and original portrait of the man who always went against it.