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people 18th May 2023 DELIVERING DREAMS: VENANCI FERRER’S REMARKABLE JOURNEY AS A POSTMAN FOR 40 YEARS!
By: 247valenciaIn the heart of Extramurs, located next to the bustling Rojas Clemente Market of Valencia, resides a much loved, 63 year old retired postman, Venanci Ferrer. For 40 years, the many streets of Spain that he journeyed afoot served as his kingdom and his territory, as he diligently carried out his duties as a postman. […]
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Music 26th June 2022 Exclusive ’24/7 Valencia’ interview with Thaïs Morell’
By: 247valenciaShe was based in Valencia for a good number of years and returns regularly to the city. Thaïs Morell was born and brought up in Curitiba, a city in the South of Brazil. Her most recent album was recorded in Valencia and released on local record label ‘Sedajazz’ records. 24/7 VALENCIA: 1. Tell us something […]
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Music 18th August 2021 VALENCIA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR BRUNO LOMAS (BORN 14 JUNE 1940 Játiva / DIED 17 AUGUST 1990 Puebla de Farnals)
By: 247valencia##Youth culture and Rock ‘n’ Roll are not concepts we easily associate with post-war Franco’s Spain. It’s hard to see where they would fit in amongst the grey public works, the development plans and the authoritarian grip of the regime. In the late fifties, at the end of the grim period of total isolation and […]
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Music 13th January 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MATT BAKER
By: 247valencia## 24/7 VALENCIA: 1.Could you tell us something about your background and musical education? I actually started at the age of six with the piano but from the beginning had an idea that this wasn’t the ideal instrument for me. I had asked to play drums and my parents wisely told me to start with […]
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Music 26th December 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC… ‘EFRÉN LÓPEZ’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
By: 247valenciaEfrén Lopez really is a musical phenomenon. Born in a working-class barrio of Valencia in 1972, he left school with no qualifications due “to a less than perfect relationship with authority”. He got involved in music as a sound technician in studios and as a session musician, which involved a tour of Colombia and Peru […]
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Editorial 23rd April 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC… SIMON CAMPBELL (Exclusive Interview)
By: 247valenciaTell us something about your background, travels, musical experiences and influences: I picked up a guitar aged 16 and it all started from there. In the late 1970s, while still at University in Salford, I was working non-stop as a session guitar player and started my first real band, Whitefire. In the 90s we had […]
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22nd September 2016 Ramon Martinez Buades
By: 247valenciaRamon Martinez Buades Interview Tell us something your background. My late father was a polyglot who spoke, wrote and read in Spanish, English, French and German with remarkable ease. This meant that I had a very cosmopolitan upbringing on all levels. I should also add that he was a great lover of art & music, […]