Jordi Maranges

Jordi Maranges is an artist who is difficult to categorize. With each new work, he challenges expectations and surprises listeners and audiences, both musically and in his stage performances. Maranges performs with elegant artistry in all types of venues, from the most intimate spaces to major festivals (FIB, Mercat de la Música Viva de Vic, Isladeencanta, Atlàntida Film Festival, etc.).
His career began as the frontman of El Diablo en el Ojo, a group with which he released an EP and two albums between 1999 and 2003. In 2003, he moved to Barcelona to study theater and singing, and the result of that experience was the birth of El Piano Ardiendo, an electro-cabaret project with an openly queer discourse.
In 2010, she recorded her first solo album, El baile de los cangrejos, a confessional, baroque, and heterogeneous album produced at Sol de Sants Studios in Barcelona with musicians from the Catalan capital. She also did a residency in Berlin, collaborating with singer Cora Frost, a leading figure in Berlin cabaret. Upon his return to Palma, he released Circo del Amor (2012), an openly pop and uninhibited EP that explores disco extravagance and epic sounds, and which also reunited her with Michael Mesquida as producer.
El cazador (2014) was her third solo album, a folk mini-LP with six songs about the dangers of desire and love. Two years later, she released the autobiographical Món Físic (2016), recorded at Joan “Petit” Castells' studios, and featuring music videos by award-winning Santiago de Lucas for La estación Pactada and Mari Jo Ribas for De la meva infantesa. This album speaks to childhood as a conflictive territory where one constructs an identity outside of convention.
Espasmo (2018) marked a significant shift in Maranges' sound, incorporating synthesizers, programmed beats, and other effects for the first time. These effects serve as a starting point for her aesthetic and creative foundation when composing and recording the four songs on this EP. It is a work that celebrates the night, sexual freedom, and the mystique of the dance floor. The first single, Hacerme daño, featured a music video by prestigious director and photographer Daniel Riera. Espasmo was recorded at Favela Studios in Palma, with production by Michael Mesquida and Maranges himself.

In 2019, Maranges created a performance tribute to the writer Jean Genet, which premiered at the Es Baluard Museum in Palma as part of the Atlàntida Film Festival. In January 2021, through the Fep Producciones label, he released Sentimental Vol II. An EP with electronic and dance elements that speaks to non-exclusive love and questions the heteronormative monogamous relationship. Recorded at Favela Studios with Michael Mesquida as producer, it features remixes by artists such as DJ Moderno and NxFaith, as well as a reinterpretation of the eurodance classic Rhythm of the Night sung in Catalan.
During 2021, he also released the singles La Balada del hombre penetrado, an iconic song that has become a cult hit, and David y Jonatán, a beautiful queer love story that combines electronic and urban elements with a cinematic aftertaste.
2022 was a year of farewells, renewal, assimilating difficult life experiences, and embarking on a new musical and creative phase. At the end of that year, and with the announcement of a new album for 2023, Maranges released two advance singles, in Catalan, with a confessional tone, recovering influences from the past and adding new electronic sounds to her songs. "L'home més sexy de part forana," a pop song with a classic bent, and "La Boira," a short piano and electronic piece inspired by the scandal involving Hungarian MEP Jósezf Szájer. Finally, in March 2023, "Allau," an LP released by Fep Productions, was released.
In the summer of that same year, she performed for the second time, alongside Greek singer Evripidis and his Tragedies, at the Atlantida Film Festival.
In early 2025, he released the single "El Merder," a song that denounces housing issues, gentrification, and overcrowded tourism. During the summer of that same year, he began working on the songs that will make up his new album, "La balada de David y Jonatán," a queer love story between a former drag queen and his young caretaker, alongside American producer Aaron Rux. His first release is "Black Cat, Caballos Salvajes," a fan's love and admiration letter to a drag queen in a danceable synthpop style. It was released on the SonicDad label, with whom he will release subsequent singles.