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MUSIC

                                                                                     Pablo Alborán and Jessy & Joy

P  ablo Alborán is a                        Latin Grammy Awards including best       Demi Lovato and Pablo Alborán
   multi-talented Spanish                   album of the year, best contemporary
   singer,        musician                  pop album and best song of the year                               www.OceanBlueWorld.com | 71
   and songwriter who                       for “Se Puede Amar.”
plays piano and classical, flamenco         Alborán has released three studio
and acoustic guitar. The new voice          albums, two live albums, and worked
of Spanish pop got his start with the       with several musical collaborations of
pop single, “Solamente Tú” in 2011          celebrated performers. He won a Goya
from his debut album Pablo Alborán.         award for the soundtrack “Palmeras
Both the single and the album were a        en la Nieve” (with Lucas Vidal) for the
massive success topping the Spanish         movie of the same name. He recently
music charts for several consecutive        wrapped up his first extensive tour in
weeks. The album won multiple               the U.S. and participated in Miguel
awards and became Spain’s best-selling      Bosé -MTV Unplugged.
album that year.

Last year’s “Se Puede Amar” peaked at       In his song "Está Permitido" he writes
number six in Spain fetching Alborán’s      “…and everyone finds a reason to
twelfth top ten single in his native land.  be” (“…y todos encontramos un
In addition the acoustic album Tour         motivo para ser.”) This talented pop
Terral, (Tres Noches en Las Ventas)         – seemingly overnight - musical
received three nominations at the 2016      sensation has without doubt found his.
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