Following the Catalan songwriters was going hand in hand with developing political views, so I started to write ‘protest songs’ at the age of 13. At 19 I did my first ‘real’ gig and formed my first band Camamil.la. We worked for a few years with a repertoire based on my own songs and Latin tunes. That was the era when my music got strong influences from the Catalan Rumba of Gato Pérez and the Latin rhythms of Fania All Stars with Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe and their generation. At the same time I was hired as the singer in a rock band –Iol– with very unusual influences from North African music. I also went to college, started two careers and finished none. Mad times, fond memories.

In 1989 I met my pal Xesc Carbonell (not related) with whom I collaborated very intensely for several years. In 1990 I formed Tumbet, my most ambitious band to date. The line-up changed over the years and included some very good friends of mine: Xesc Carbonell, Toni Amengual, Cati Llull, Pere Balaguer, Tolo Morel.lo, Álvaro Porcel, Toni Servera, Jaume ‘Güia’ Rosselló and Tòfol Font. Great fun…electric guitars, rock approach and plenty of Latin percussion. We won several awards, played outside the island and went on to record one track in a compilation album. We also did several demos that never got to be published.