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Manel Anoro Biography

Manel Anoro was born in 1945 in Barcelona. He started drawing and painting at a very early age, but went on to study Agronomic Engineering and Economics in Barcelona. Throughout these years, shared with his lifelong friend, singer-songwriter Juan Manuel Serrat, Anoro continued to draw and paint.
After 15 years of working as a systems engineer for IBM, Anoro finally decided to change his professional career. He says: “It was like starting all over again and since then I simply haven’t stopped painting every single day”.