The musician Nacho Mañó will receive the 2023 Music Honor Award

ALICANTE. The Institut Valencià de Cultura announces that the 2023 Music Honor Award will go to the Valencian musician Nacho Mañó, with a long career as a musician and producer. The awards ceremony will be held on November 24 at the Teatro Principal in Alicante.

Nacho Mañó (València, 1963) is a musician and producer, known mainly for his career as a member of the group Presuntos Implicados, of which he was the author and composer of many of their hits and producer of many of the group’s albums. Since 2009, he has shared a musical project with his partner, Gisela Renes.

Parallel to this musical activity, he has directed recordings for artists and groups of the stature of Alejandro Sanz, Armando Manzanero, Niña Pastori, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluís Llach, Milton Nascimento, Paco de Lucía, Ainhoa ​​Arteta, Malú, Miguel Bosé, Revolver o Social Security. Likewise, he has worked as an adapter for Eros Ramazzotti since 1996 and with other artists such as Lucio Dalla, Spice Girls, Gary Barlow, Sandy & Junior, or Só pra Contrariar, writing Spanish versions of his songs.

Nacho Mañó brings together, among other recognitions for his career as an artist and producer, a Latin Grammy, several Latin Grammy nominations, three Ondas Awards and a SGAE Music Award.

In the world of audiovisuals, he has participated in the soundtracks of films such as ‘El Bar’ (2017), ‘El desentierro’ (2018), ‘Little Switzerland’ (2019), ‘El Cover’ (Berlanga Award for best band Sonora, 2021) or ‘The Game of Keys’ (2022). Since 2020 he has been part of the board of directors of SGAE, its board of directors and is president of its jazz working group.

A tribute to roots music

Vicent Colonques directs the gala of the VI Carles Santos Awards for Valencian Music, which will have a plot axis focused on root music, seen from a 21st century perspective, where the root is the genesis, the starting point and the birth of all current music.

The entire aesthetic concept of the gala, created by set designer Blanca Añón and designer Marta Negre, will start from this idea and develop its own ‘cosmos’ where the egg, as a primal form, symbolizes this root principle.

The event will feature the participation of prominent artists, such as Miquel Gil, Flora Sempere del Diluvi, Ana Zomeño, Quiteria Muñoz, Andrés Belmonte, La María, Alberto Gambino and Marala, who will perform different songs from the history of Valencian music.

All performances will be accompanied by the band Niu, with Marina Alcantud as musical director and Tere Núñez as co-director, and which also has Sílvia Martí on drums and Lucía Zambudio on guitar.