A yau 27 ga Disamba, 2015, ƙwararriyar Joan Manuel Serrat ta cika shekara 72. Barcelonian tare da mahaifin Catalan da mahaifiyar Aragone, ya fara aiki sosai a duniyar kiɗa lokacin da ya kafa ƙungiya tare da abokai uku yana da shekaru 20. Kunna 1965 ita ce bayyanarsa ta farko a gidan rediyon Barcelona.
Su album mai cikakken tsayi na farko da aka fitar a cikin 1967. Waɗannan shekaru ne da mawaƙin-mawaƙin ya fara yin rikodin a cikin Mutanen Espanya, wanda ya haifar da babbar cece-kuce a Catalonia. Amma ya ci gaba kuma a hankali ya zama mai fasaha na duniya.
Kasadar da ya yi a Amurka baya kawo masa nasara nan take. Sai da ya dauki lokaci ya ziyarci garuruwa daban-daban har ya kafa a Quartet na kiɗa a Buenos Aires. Kungiyar da Gabriel Rosales da Enric Oliva da Enroc López da kansa suka kafa sun zagaya Mexico da Chile da Venezuela da kuma Argentina. Fame yana zuwa kadan kadan, kuma ya ba shi la'akari da "Latin American daga Barcelona".
Sun kasance shekaru masu wahala a gare shi, tare da kalubale ga mulkin Franco ta hanyar kulle kansa a cikin gidan sufi na Monserrat, tare da ci gaba da tofa albarkacin bakinsu na siyasa na ayyukansa, saboda shahararsa a duniya, don goyon bayansa ga Salvador Allende. Duk da komai kuma a cikin mafi munin lokacin, ya sami damar kasancewa a cikin jerin kundi na 10 da aka fi siyar kusan shekara guda, da makwanni da yawa a matsayin lamba ɗaya, duk da cewa yana adawa da sahihancin lokacin.
A shekara ta 1971 ya zo Album dinsa mafi kwarjini, "Mediterráneo". Shekaru masu zuwa akwai tafiye-tafiye da kide-kide a cikin Cuba. Bayan ƴan shekaru na haramtawa, a cikin 1983, waƙar Serrat ta kai ga Argentina da Uruguay, kuma a cikin 1990 wani filin wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Chile ya shirya abin da zai zama babban kide kide na rayuwarsa.
Joan Manuel bai daina aiki ba, yana tsara waƙoƙi, yawon shakatawa a duniya. Daga cikin fitattun wakokinsa da suka shahara, akwai "A guitar", "Mediterranean", "Don rayuwa", "Kudanci kuma akwai", da dai sauransu.