Joan Villalonga for Crossover Prog

Born in Castellón de la Plana, at the age of 16 he began to take an interest in music after listening to old tapes of classic Rock & Roll and The Beatles and, with a guitar he found at home, he taught himself to play.

Years later he formed his first group with Paco Ibáñez, 27B, which later became Four on Six, one of the first bands of the 90s to play rock and blues sung in Valencian. He soon began to have a passion for composing and the group incorporated these compositions into their live performances until 1997 when they recorded their first album, Els temps passats, where the lyrics coexist in Spanish, English and Valencian with the latter predominating. With this album they were finalists in the Ahora si group competitions organised by the UJI and Castellón en vivo.

In 1997 he began his piano studies at Taller 3 in Castellón with Ricardo Belda and expanded his musical knowledge with the help of teachers such as Diego Clanchet and Fernando Marco.

In 2003, Camina was released, the second album by Four on Six with which they won the award for the best song in Valencian with the song "El blues de l'hombre gris". With more than 200 performances, the group stopped performing regularly in 2014.

At the beginning of the new century, he also began a series of solo performances that took him to venues in Valencia and Catalonia and released an EP: "Ells i nosaltres", with the help of musicians such as Natxo Navarro, Diego Clanchet, Simon Taylor, Diego Barberá, Tico Porcar and Four on Six colleagues Hector Mas and Paco Ibáñez. During this period he won the award for the best song in Valencian for two consecutive years, second prize in the La Duda singer-songwriter competition and was a finalist in the Castellón en vivo competition.

In 2010, to shape his new compositions, he contacted Diego Barberà and Tico Porcar to form a band with the format of drums, bass, piano and vocals and TanstuPids was born. With them he released two albums with the record label Flor y Nata Records: "TanStuPids" (2011) and "Plou" (2014), for which they were nominated for best pop album of the year by the Ovidi Montllor Collective, and they performed a series of concerts in venues, auditoriums and festivals in Valencia and Catalonia, as well as two performances at the legendary The Cavern in Liverpool within the International IPO Festival.

During 2016 he went into the studio with some of the best musicians in Castellón and recorded his first official solo EP which was released in early 2017 under the name Un día en Aberdeen.

In 2018 she returned to the studio to record her first album, Una noche en Shinjuku, which was released this April and has been carefully released on vinyl.

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Javier Miranda