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Sebastian Santa Maria (September 24, 1959-October 20, 1996) was a Chilean-Swiss musician. He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17.

Sebastian Santa Maria
Background information
Born	(1959-09-24)24 September 1959 Santiago, Chile
Died	20 October 1996(1996-10-20) (aged 37) Lausanne, Switzerland
Genres	Soft Rock Jazz

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, for Viktor Lazlo's album My Delicious Poisons 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 (in French)
• Latino

На других языках

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- [en] Sebastian Santa Maria

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[es] Sebastián Santa María

Sebastián Santa María Pérez (* Santiago de Chile, 24 de septiembre de 1959 - † Lausanne, 20 de octubre de 1996) fue un cantante y compositor chileno de jazz-rock radicado en Suiza, país donde logró el éxito internacional con temas como Keep On Singing y Hope, entre otros. Falleció víctima de adrenoleucodistrofia en 1996.

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