Spanish singer/songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat got involved in music at the age of 16, when he got his first guitar. In 1960, the artist participated in a pop band, playing along with classmates at Barcelona's Agronomy School. In 1964, while singing in a radio show called Radioscope, host Salvador Escanilla helped him to get a record deal with local label Edigsa and he recorded his first EP in 1965. Joan Manuel Serrat's first live stage performance came in 1966 when he sang at the Catalan Music Palace. The following year, his first album was released; soon, he recorded Cancons Tradicionals and debuted as an actor in a movie called Palabras de Amor. In 1969, Dedicado a Antonio Machado, presented live in Barcelona and Madrid, became a huge.