Singer Benjamin Escoriza He died last Friday, March 9, in Madrid after a lung disease. Escoriza, died at the age of 58 at the Valdemoro Hospital, a Madrid town where he lived with his wife and two children. His funeral was held there this Sunday, in an intimate ceremony attended by those closest to the artist.
That voice with Escoriza's personality was one of the main features of Radio Rate, the band that he founded with Vicente Molino and Fain Sanchez Dueña in the early 90s. Four albums made them a reference for ethnic music on an international level thanks to their fusion of Andalusian rhythms with other melodies and instruments of traditional music.
According to its members, the name of the group was a kind of synthesis between a "radio that captures and broadcasts the musical feeling of the Mediterranean and Cape Tarifa", and that point of Spain closest to Africa, "A little border, no man's land and above all, balcony of the Mediterranean."
On his own, Benjamín Escoriza made two albums. First, Cheer up! (2006), evidenced the artist's curiosity regarding the sum of various sounds and influences: Arab and medieval music, Sephardic sounds, Andalusian folk and even rock. His second job, Looking east, was published in 2010 and represented a continuity with the musical style that he promulgated together with Radio Tarifa, a "perfect" mix that he had achieved "between the essences of Andalusian Arabian music and popular folklore," said its representative at the time.
With that album, the singer visited the program Today everything starts on Radio 3, where he presented some of those new songs on acoustic.
Source: radio 3