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Xabier Díaz

The Star Parade in the A Coruña neighborhood of Eirís heard the first muñeiras performed by Xabier Díaz (A Coruña, 1969) with a bagpipe that his music-loving grandfather bought him at the beginning of the 80’s. The instrument became a vehicle that facilitated Xabier’s arrival at Xacarandaina, Rumbadeira, and above all, the discovery of an unknown world, the music that the villages still preserved at that time, the discovery of traditional music. Today, Xabier’s is one of the most relevant names in Galician roots music. He was part of the legendary and now extinct group Berrogüetto (2008-2014). At the same time, he joined Guadi Galego, Xosé Lois Romero and Guillerme Fernández in the aCadaCanto project, with which they published two albums.

The awards followed one another and, above all, the most important one: the birth of a new group together with Adufeiras de Salitre, whose joint work since 2014 is portrayed on four works: “The Tambourine Man” (2015), “Noró” (2018), “As Catedrais Silenciadas” (2020) and “Axúdame a sentir” (2024). The band has performed close to 400 concerts, leaving its imprint in Buenos Aires, Oslo, Lisbon, Algiers, Glasgow, Madrid, Bariloche, Colonia, London, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Brussels or Ghent, just to name a few.

The albums obtained recognition from specialized critics and the public, with outstanding sales success and impact in world music. “As Catedrais Silenciadas” spent three months in the Top Ten of the WMCE and won the Martín Códax Award in the Traditional Music category in 2020.