Pau Riba -who died today at the age of 73, a victim of pancreatic cancer- had five out of four women. the two eldest, Pauet and Caimwere born on the island of Formentera, the lost paradise of an entire generation where the singer-songwriter and his then partner, Mercè Pastor, escaped to enjoy the hippie dream. They lived without hurry, they saw the waves, they were connected to nature, they drank water from a well and lit up with an oil lamp. The two babies were born with Riba acting as a midwife and helping Mercè to give birth. “Natural childbirth and without medical or hospital paraphernalia & rdquor ;, she remembered with pride.
Pauet (50 years old) and Caïm (47) followed in their father’s musical footsteps and were part of Shepherdess, group where they paid homage to their mother’s last name and where they had a hit with the catchy ‘Lola’ (“Don’t call me Dolores, call me Lola”). With Pastora, the scattered and eclectic” Caïm -who has also suffered from cancer- got rid of “the stigma of being the son of Pau Riba” when singing in Spanish and in a label that was in Madrid. He was in charge of the guitar and vocals. Idol Beltran she was the singer, a real stage animal. AND Pauet took care of the part audiovisual: projections, live recording of what was happening on stage, adding effects and inserting image loops.
Pastora -acknowledged Caïm in an interview with EL PERIÓDICO in April last year as a result of the release of ‘Llunes de Plutó’, her most vital album- did not separate, but with the latest album, ‘Una altra galàxia’, communication with the company was more and more distant. “Pauet had left him and Dolo, I feel bad saying it, but he didn’t follow me much. I felt little supported & rdquor ;. Have they ever talked about retaking the group.
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To Patriarch Riba he was not enthusiastic about Pastora. “He told us that we had to give the media bait, when I would have preferred him to say that he liked what his son did and that’s it. In my adolescence I saw my father and the character, walking barefoot and all that. Now we have little relationship and when we meet I still don’t see him surpass that character. Live a little of it & rdquor ;, he commented in that same interview.
Like his father, Caïm – who has three children – has also suffered from cancer. In his case, prostate. The diagnosis was taken with philosophy, despite living between tests and with uncertainty. It was in 2019 and the disease, he assures him, has not “turned his head & rdquor ;. Lucky for him to have a personality with “a tendency to not be bitter and to value things”.