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Pep Blay (''Josep Blay Boqué'', born 2 September 1966 in Tarragona, Spain) is a Catalan writer, script writer and music journalist. As a music journalist, he interviewed stars like Lou Reed, The Cure and Nick Cave. He also often works together with Spanish artists, f.e. Enrique Bunbury, Iván Ferreiro, and Amparanoia. ==Biography== Blay was born as the youngest of three children on 2 September 1966 in Tarragona, Spain. He studied Catalan Philology at Universitat de Barcelona, faculty of Tarragona from 1984 to 1989. During his studies he worked as a cultural journalist for the Catalan newspaper ''Catalunya Sud''. He also published poems for the magazine ''Negre+Roig'' and founded the collective ''Andrògina Productions''. After his studies, he moved to Barcelona to begin higher education in theatre theory and critics; he also learnt Japanese. That same year he started to write about literature for the Catalan newspaper ''AVUI'' and edited the supplement ''Rock & Classics''. He also worked for magazines like ''El Temps'', ''Catalònia'' and ''Cultura''. Between 1990 and 2000 Blay sporadically performed reciting poetry live; a few of his performances can be found in the DVD ''Poesia en viu a Barcelona'' (Habitual Video Team/ Propost.org, 1991–2003). His career as a music journalist started with ''AVUI'' in 1993. That same year, he also began to sing as a vocalist in the Tarragonian post mortem-underground band ''Els Patètix''; he spent 3 years in that group. In 1995, he published a biography of the Catalan musician and songwriter Lluís Llach for the collection ''Los Autores'' (SGAE Barcelona). In 1999, Blay started to work for the Catalan TV-channel ''Televisió de Catalunya'' as programme director for the cabaret ''Bohèmia'', and also as script writer and art director. He wrote two more biographies about Catalan rockbands: ''“Sopa de Cabra. Si et quedes amb mi“'', Rosa dels Vents, in 2002 and ''“Els Pets. Cara a cara”'', Rosa dels Vents, in 2003. Moreover, he created in the magazine ''Enderrock'' the series ''“Sexe, Blay & rock´n´roll“'' which is associated to later works. His passion for travelling led him through Europe, the USA, Island, Tanzania and Mexico. In September 2003, he started a one-year-trip around the world to experience cultures in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and Japan. These experiences had such a heavy influence on Blay's life that he started to work as script writer for the travel programme ''Km33'' on the Catalan TV-channel ''Tv3''. Thanks to that job, he continued travelling to f.e. Morocco, Burkina Faso, Mali and the USA (New York). He usually sends reports about travelling and other topics to the Catalan radio station ''iCat fm''. Blay who has always been a devotee of vampirism and polypoetry became famous with his novel ''“Vampíria Sound“'' (Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A., 2004), which is a radical contemporary music thriller. The biography he wrote about Enrique Bunbury - called ''“Enrique Bunbury. Lo demás es silencio“'' (Plaza & Janés) - made him famous overnight amongst both Spanish-speaking and international fans of Enrique Bunbury and his ex-band Héroes del Silencio. That biography offers an exciting human portrait of the extroverted Spanish singer. The book has also been published in Mexico. In 2009, Pep Blay continued to show the extent of his talent and numerous skills with the release in Catalan of the teenager-fantasy-novel ''“Gotholàndia“'' (Montena). At the same time ''“Erótica Mix“'', four short stories about music and sex, were both published in Catalan (Rosa dels Vents) and in Spanish (Plaza & Janés). At the end of the year, as art director, he produced together with Spanish stars like Enrique Bunbury, Iván Ferreiro and Amparanoia, the CD ''“Més raons de pes. El tribut an Umpah-Pah“''. Blay has been living in Barcelona for a long time. Finally, he finds his inspiration closed to the sea to write books while his journeys take him around the globe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pep Blay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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