Sebastian Santa Maria
Sebastian Santa Maria | |
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Background information | |
Born |
1959 Santiago, Chile |
Died |
1996 37) Lausanne, Switzerland | (aged
Genres |
Soft Rock Jazz |
Associated acts | The Zombies |
Notable instruments | |
piano, keyboard, guitar |
Sebastian Santa Maria was a Chilean-Swiss musician. He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17.
He played the piano in several clubs in Lausanne until beginning a fertile career as a composer, composing a number of songs including some made for Catherine Lara, Bernard Lavilliers and Isabelle Adjani.
Beside these composer activities, he also played numerous piano duet jazz concerts with François Lindemann, and a few years later he founded with Lindemann a unique group of seven Steinways called Piano Seven.
He also participated on the reincarnation of British band The Zombies, playing on their 1991 album, New World. As a solo artist, he released a few singles and one full length album (Latino, 1994). A second album, Corpus, was released posthumously in 1997.
Santa Maria died of adrenoleukodystrophy in 1996 in Lausanne.
External links
- Official webpage
- Discography (French)
- Latino
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