A singer, songwriter and creator from La Palma, lead voice of Taburiente, whose musical work connects Nueva Canción Canaria, roots music, landscape, identity and defence of nature.
Luis Morera Felipe is a singer, songwriter and visual artist from La Palma, the lead voice of Taburiente and a figure linked to the renewal of Canarian popular music since the 1970s.
Open biographyLuis Morera’s public musical career is tied to Taburiente, founded on La Palma in 1974 with Miguel Pérez and Manolo Pérez after the earlier La Contra experience. Taburiente belongs to the musical change of the 1970s: Nuevo Cauce introduced Canarian folklore, protest song and synthesisers, while Ach-Guañac expanded that line with progressive rock. Morera later developed solo production, though his musical profile presents him chiefly as voice and songwriter linked to Taburiente.
Morera was Taburiente’s musical leader, soloist and composer of some songs, and the group’s first two LPs became reference points for Canarian roots musicians. His individual contribution lies in giving a recognisable voice to a contemporary music that did not abandon popular roots and that integrated landscape, identity, social claims and environmental sensibility.
His vocal style is one of Taburiente’s distinctive traits. The musical context combines singer-songwriter idioms, La Palma and Canarian folklore, tajarastes, sirinoques, rock, synthesisers, jazz concepts and Atlantic sonorities. In Morera’s work, music dialogues with his visual-art practice: landscape, island memory, defence of territory and natural symbols recur as central axes.
His repertory includes Nuevo Cauce and Ach-Guañac as milestones in Taburiente’s first period, and the album Taburiente, released in 1985, with lyrics by Luis Morera, music by Miguel Rodríguez and songs such as A Tara, A la Caldera de Taburiente, Malagueña del agua and Canto de tierra.
His musical legacy is transmitted through Taburiente’s continuity, songs associated with Canarian collective memory and a form of creation in which music, painting, public space and environmentalism feed each other. The Canary Islands Gold Medal granted to Taburiente in 2001 officially recognises that collective trajectory; within it, Morera’s voice is one of its most identifiable signs.
He was born in Santa Cruz de La Palma and his musical career is structured around Taburiente, Nueva Canción Canaria, La Palma’s landscape and the cultural and natural defence of the archipelago.
Tema convertido en referencia de la Nueva Canción Canaria.
Tema del álbum Taburiente, con letra de Luis Morera.
Tema incluido en el álbum Taburiente.
Nace en Santa Cruz de La Palma el 10 de octubre de 1946.
Funda Taburiente en La Palma junto a Miguel Pérez y Manolo Pérez.
Taburiente publica su primer álbum, producido por Teddy Bautista.
El segundo álbum amplía la fusión de folclore, sintetizadores y rock progresivo.
Se publica el disco Taburiente, con letras de Luis Morera y repertorio de raíz canaria.
El Gobierno de Canarias concede la Medalla de Oro al grupo Taburiente.
Una exposición retrospectiva en Santa Cruz de La Palma muestra la conexión entre música, artes plásticas y territorio en su obra.
