One day he said: "I am of the night"?
I wanted to help people, that's why I wanted to be a doctor.
It was?
What if one day I was wrong and hurt someone? I left it.
Well, we lost a humanist doctor.
I played records at Kactus, in Montcada: if you make a mistake with a record, nothing happens.
And did you keep clicking?
La Trocadero, Planet 2001, Otto Zutz, Article 26, Stardust, Up
Now he is an entrepreneur.
Already 40 years ago. At the Tropical, in Gavà: I set up a stage for live music. Luz de Gas is today the only room in Europe with live music from Thursday to Sunday.
He says it proudly.
Live music is my passion.
And he doesn't play records anymore.
I do it every New Year's Eve in the women's prison of Wad-Ras, at the Sant Andreu festival, at friends' weddings...
Like a kid
I do not notice the passage of time.
How do you get it?
Doing the same thing every morning: if there is habit, there is no effort.
What activity do you practice?
I play ping-pong with veterans.
¿Ping-pong?
NASA says it: after being an astronaut, playing ping-pong is the most complete human activity that exists.
And since when do you play?
For 22 years, every morning, we have played Pep Palés, Li Qi and Ramon Fonollar: that is why we have won the Spanish Veterans Championship in ping-pong... for eleven years!
The reflections in shape, then.
And the brain muscle, playing chess. Illescas says that I do not do it badly.
Did you play as a child?
No, I was 15 years old and my mother died: I went to work. My sister Rosa Maria Sardà took care of everyone. My father died a few years later...
What did he learn?
If a child has a roof and a mother, he has everything.
His other brother is Xavier Sardà.
Since he was a child, at the table, in the bunk, Xavier gave us the voice of Senyor Casamajor, the old man who would later become famous.
I'm touched by the bunk.
We were a humble family, apart from Rosa, we were Santi, me, Xavi and Joan.
I have not met Santi.
He created the Tibidabo passage of terror.
Always entertaining, you...
The nice thing is to help people.
You help them have a good time.
I organize charitable musical festivities in favor of the Pare Manel Foundation.
I did know Pare Manel.
"Don't die, you'll find out that God doesn't exist," I told him at the hospital. we loved each other He helped a lot of people in prisons. And out. A good man.
Do you follow his work?
In the last 28 years I have collaborated with 2,500 NGOs, organizing twelve thousand concerts, and I will continue.
Bravo.
Now I like that every Sunday afternoon people with mental diversity come to dance, thanks to the Fundació Ludàlia.
You are taking revenge for your two years closed due to the pandemic.
I did not want to reopen the party room until I had full optimal conditions to dance without a mask, to enjoy to the fullest.
What did you do meanwhile?
I invented my own herbal tea.
Herbal tea?
Cava sangria. As a child, I watched my grandfather do it, with that name. Today I bottle my own formula, without sugar, with lemon and orange peel, 12º...: “Tisana”. try!
Refreshing, smooth, rich!
For the whole year. I already commercialize it to deliver the benefits to social works.
Holy man.
One day I'll put on clerical collars and they'll call me San Fede, ha ha!
What has been your best work?
The couples that have formed on the nights of Luz de Gas. I know many. They come to greet me... with their two sons.
In the end it will turn out that it has helped people.
I like that people have fun again, as if the pandemic had not existed. For me it has not existed.
How do you see Barcelona at night?
The club directors are happy. Although I will always want more live music in Barcelona, more concerts, more venues, more of everything in my city.
And meanwhile...
Let's live the day and do good.
