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Carles Benavent

real name Carles Benavent Guinart

Barcelona, Spain

Carles Benavent is credited on 564 releases across 164 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1971–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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564

Credits

164

Albums

6

Decades active

19

In collections

Biography

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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 Paco de Lucia Sextet in the 1980's. He's played too with Miles Davis, Chick Corea and El Camarón De La Isla.
At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac with (drums) and Emili Baleriola (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with Joan Albert Amargos (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and (guitar).
He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including Kitflus, Tito Duarte, and Jorge Pardo.

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Credited work

564 releases · 164 albums · active 1971–2026

  • Performance · 778
  • Other credits · 88
  • Production · 13
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Estudios Eurosonic · Estudios KS · Estudio Bola · Audiofilm

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