It was there where I realized that I wanted to make music”, he sums up half shyly and half passionately. He let me do whatever I wanted and for me it was like an amusement park: I spent hours playing and having fun on drums, guitars, keyboards, microphones and mixing boards. I used to love going to his house and spending an entire weekend playing in that studio. “My uncle Toniet Barbé had a recording studio and had a lot of contact with the great musicians of his time. “In my case it is a real passion, otherwise I wouldn’t have done half the things I’ve done,” he says. There was always music in his house, “my grandparents played the accordion, my father has played the keyboard all his life and my uncle, Toniet Barbé, played several instruments and had a small recording studio, but they all did it as a hobby”. Nevertheless, Joan tells us that his love for music “is inexplicable”. “If people call me the child prodigy of Ibizan music it’s either because they like me a lot or don’t know much about music,” says a musician who is also the son, nephew and grandson of true music lovers. His guitars have accompanied numerous local artists, but also well-known names such as Kim Mazelle, Eddie C., Amar Sundy (BB King), Ángel Rubio (Black Market), Gaby Jogeix, Los Reyes del KO, Nalaya Brown, Mico Weavers (Prince), Norberto Rodríguez (Juan Perro) and Jordi Clua (Serrat), among others. The now producer, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, since he plays guitar, bass and drums, began to play these instruments in a self-taught way with several local artists, becoming a familiar face in various bands on the island or abroad from the age of 13. A track record that has earned him the title of “the child prodigy of Ibizan music”. From the age of 9 he participated as a percussionist with the Ciutat d’Eivissa Symphony Band, the Ciutat d’Eivissa Symphony Orchestra and the chamber group conducted by Adolfo Villalonga, Eivissa Ensemble 2000. Our person of the month, Joan Roig “Barbé”, was born in Ibiza in 1984 and started out in the world of music at the age of six, joining the Escuela del Patronato Municipal de Música de Ibiza, where he took courses in music theory and harmony.
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