Juan José Falcón Sanabria

Juan José Falcón Sanabria was born on 11 February 1936 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel identifies him as a composer and music teacher, with compositional activity from the second half of the 1950s.

He received the Canary Islands Fine Arts Prize in 1994, recorded in the official Government of the Canary Islands history under Fine Arts and Performance. The Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes also records the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1997, the title of Favourite Son of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1998, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria's Can de Plata in 2001 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2006. He died on 23 June 2015.