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Lola, came out in 2007, followed by Niña de Fuego a year later, and in 2009 El Ultimo
Trago, a collaboration with Chucho Valdés, the renowned Cuban jazz pianist.
Argentine-born, Mallorca-based starlet Chenoa got her break when she stunned all in
the TV talent show Operación Triunfo . Since 2002 she has churned out four albums and
has become one of the most popular voices in Spanish-Latin pop.
For those who thought Ibiza was the exclusive Mediterranean home of club sounds,
Daniel Vulic (DJ and German radio director in Mallorca) brought out Cool Vibes Vol 1, a
compilation of strictly Mallorcan chill-out and club music in 2007.
Painting & Sculpture
The Early Centuries
Subsumed after the 1229 conquest into the Catalan world of the Crown of Aragón, Mal-
lorca lay at a strategic point on sea routes. This fostered the movement of artists and not
a few were attracted from the mainland, particularly Valencia, to Mallorca.
The earliest works from this revival of Catalan culture, transmitted by Catalan artists,
were influenced by the Gothic art of the Sienese school in Italy. Later, International
Gothic began to filter through, notably under the influence of the Valencian artist
Francesc Comes, who was at work in Mallorca from 1390 to 1415.
Important artists around the mid-15th century include Rafel Mòger (c 1424-70) and
Frenchman Pere Niçard, who worked in Mallorca from 1468 to 1470. They created one
of the era's most important works, Sant Jordi, now housed in Palma's Museu Diocesà.
The outstanding sculptor of this time was Guillem Sagrera, who did much of the detail
work on Sa Llotja.
Pere Terrencs (active c 1479-1528) returned from a study stint in Valencia with the
technique of oil painting - the death knell for egg-based pigments. His was a transitional
style between late Gothic and the Renaissance. In a similar category was Córdoba-born
Mateu López (d 1581), who trained in the prestigious Valencia workshops of father and
son Vicent Macip and Joan de Joanes (aka Joan Vicent Macip, 1523-79), both signal
artists. In 1544 López landed in Mallorca where he and his son became senior painters.
Gaspar Oms (c 1540-1614) was Mallorca's most outstanding late- Renaissance paint-
er. The Oms clan, from Valencia, dominated the Mallorcan art scene throughout the 17th
and 18th centuries.
Miquel Bestard (1592-1633) created major baroque canvases for churches, such as the
Convento de Santa Clara and the Església de Monte -Sion, in Palma. Guillem Mesquida