Joaqun Ramn Martnez Sabina, known artistically simply as Joaqun Sabina, is a singer, songwriter, and poet from the Andalusia region of southern Spain. He is widely considered as the greatest and finest spanish-speaking songwriter. His songs usually treat about love, heartbreaks and society with a large usage of literary figures similarly to the baroque-literature style.He has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, and three compilation albums. Some of his most known songs are "Calle Melancola", "19 das y 500 noches","Quin me ha robado el mes de Abril", "Pongamos que hablo de Madrid", "Y sin embargo", "Contigo" or "Peces de ciudad"He performed both solo and with a group for his live albums, performing with Javier Krahe and Alberto Prez in La mandrgora, the group Viceversa in a 1986 concert, and with Joan Manuel Serrat in Dos pjaros de un tiro.Sabina suffered a stroke in 2001 and although he physically recovered, he entered a deep depression which resulted in a four-year-long concert hiatus. He recovered and released his eighteenth album, Alivio de Luto, in November 2005 and in 2009 he released his album, Vinagre y rosas.