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Carles Benavent

Spanish bass player, born March 1, 1954 in Barcelona. Benavent's greatest contribution to music is to have given a major role to bass guitar in flamenco music with the [a=Paco de Lucia Sextet] in the 1980's. He's played too with [a23755], [a37731] and [a1022514]. At 13 he founded the blues trio [a=Crac (2)] with [a1629766] (drums) and [a1642738] (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined [a1088050] to refound [a=Máquina]. In 1975 he founded [a=Música Urbana] with [a661246] (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and [a1629765] (guitar). He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including [a1126101], [a344581], and [a387047].