(Zaragoza, 1954) Musician and writer. He graduated in Philosophy and Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and studied at the Université de Vincennes, Paris VIII. He co-founded the music group Radio Futura, and spent a decade with them developing his singing and composing talents, which are reflected in half a dozen albums, and which obtained recognition in Spain and Latin America as a major Spanish rock group. Between 1984 and 1995 he researched the roots of Cuban son and produced several historical anthologies. In 1994 he started the Juan Perro project, with which he has since combined Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean and Iberian musical traditions, and has recorded seven albums of original songs to date. Under his first name he has released compilations from his repertoire with the Taller de Músics’ Original Jazz Orquestra and with the Region of Murcia Symphony Orchestra. He has published numerous articles on music, philosophy and literature and the books La imagen sonora (1998), El ritmo perdido (2012, 2015), about the black influence on Spanish music, and Semilla del Son, de cómo la música popular cubana germinó en suelo español (2017), among others. He has received several awards: the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s 2011 National Prize for Contemporary Music and the 2019 Region of Aragon Music Award, among others. In 2015 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis on the role of music in ancient Greek thought, whose adaptation to be published in book form is in preparation.