Txus Amat, born in Tudela and long based in Alicante, has carved a distinctive path as a singer-songwriter whose career began in 1989 at the Teatro Gayarre in Pamplona. He earned First Prize for Young Singer-songwriters, an honor awarded by the Government of Navarre, and since then has continued to shape his art through a blend of solo performances and collaborations with various groups. His early works, including verses gathered in Scribbles (1998), Streets of People (2000), and Corn Fields (CD 2003), alongside Karabel Camera (2011) and a notable runner-up finish with Pablo Auladell, established him as a versatile voice capable of weaving poetry and song seamlessly.
In the ensuing years, Amat broadened his artistic reach by leaning into musical adaptations of poetry, a realm that has come to define much of his recent output. His recitals have repeatedly highlighted the cadence of cities and the rhythms of love, with suites that juxtapose intimate lyricism against urban landscapes. The program Love and Cities, for instance, gathers poems by Luis García Montero into musical passages that illuminate the fragility and beauty of human connection. The project Fantasy for an Uncertain Rose brings together incoming texts by Raquel Lanseros and Fernando Valverde, creating a dialogue between poets and melodies that resonates with contemporary themes of hope and uncertainty. His homage to Miguel Hernández, connected with José Luis Ferris, further anchors his work in the Spanish poetic tradition while inviting modern interpretation through song. In The Waltz of What Hurts Me, he collaborates with poet José Luis Rico to translate pain into a moving musical experience. The most recent release, On the Shores of the City of Light, features the contributions of twenty-five Alicante poets and marks a sustained collaboration with the broader literary community.
Amat premiered Threads and Paper in 2021, a project built around twenty poems by a diverse group of national poets, which showcased his knack for threading together varied voices into a cohesive musical tapestry. Looking ahead, he is preparing a book-CD edition that expands on his thematic exploration of the poet-musician relationship and the way poetry can be translated into performance. His ongoing engagement with the poetic community is reflected in live shows, where new pieces sit alongside established favorites, and audiences are invited to witness the living conversation between word and melody. Alongside these performances, audiences have anticipated the debut of a new album that continues his tradition of pairing lyric poetry with thoughtful, evocative musical arrangements, and marks a notable moment in his ongoing artistic journey. The public can expect further collaborations and performances that bring together poets, musicians, and listeners in a shared experience that centers on language, sound, and place, including his recent work that relates to the themes of conflict, resilience, and cultural memory as expressed in his dialogue with contemporary poets and their visions of the world.