Sebastián Santa María

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Sebastian Santa Maria (1959–1996) was a Chilean-Swiss musician. He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17. 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, Viktor Lazlo, among others. Beside these composer activities, he also played numerous piano duet jazz concerts with swiss musician François Lindemann during 1980 to 1984 and in 1986 he founded with Lindemann a unique group of seven Steinways pianos called Piano Seven. He also participated on the reincarnation of British band The Zombies playing keyboards, guitars and vocals 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. -Extract from Wikipedia.