User:Miskito89/sandbox Gato Perez

Xavier Patricio Pérez Álvarez (Buenos Aires, 11 April 1951-Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, 18 October 1990), known as Gato Pérez, was a musician of Argentine origin who settled in Catalonia. He was particularly famous in Catalan rumba.

Biography

He arrived in Barcelona in 1966 with his mother to join his father, who had emigrated earlier. When he finished high school, he settled for a while in London, trying to get a job in a record company, but he had no luck and returned to Barcelona. From the early 1970s he was a member of various bands such as Slo-Blo (country rock, the first group to perform at the Sala Zeleste in Barcelona) and Secta Sónica (jazz rock, and continuation of the previous band). In 1977 he began experimenting with Catalan rumba and subsequently released his first two albums (Carabruta and Romesco), and later, Atalaya, which was more commercial.

In 1981 Gato Pérez suffered a heart attack, began to have serious health problems and the fatigue caused by his heart problems forced him to give up alcohol. His next albums were composed, in his own words, 'under the effects of mineral water'.