He's a living legend, the king of Catalan country music. Son of Toni Nicolau and Maria Morlà, "day laborers who survived on little money and bartered with neighbors," who had no connection to music beyond knowing how to dance the canoe. And yet, when the boy said he wanted to be a singer, Toni Nicolau went to Manacor to buy him a guitar. A gesture that changed the life of little Tomeu Nicolau Morlà from Vilafranca de Bonany, born in 1949, whom everyone now knows by the stage name Tomeu Penya.

There are images that become iconic with the passage of time. Today, Mallorca bears little resemblance to the one immortalized in 1987, 38 years ago, by a tourist postcard from the Barcelona-based publishing house Fisa Escudo de Oro. It was on a corner of the road that formerly ran through Vilafranca de Bonany. Five elderly people are seated, a man and four women. One of them isn't looking at the camera because she's concentrating on her embroidery. At the top of the back wall hang two posters announcing a rally by the PSM (Nationalist Left), on May 29th. It's to commemorate the European elections. Below are four more from the album. Take by Tomeu Penya, a native of the town. On the right, remains of an old advertisement for El Fary at the Palma Auditorium on May 8 stand out. Some witnesses, direct or indirect, are also present. One of them is Catalina Mestre Jaume, 76. She is the daughter of the couple on the left, Sebastià Mestre Bauçà and Aina Maria Jaume Jaume. because, after finishing work outside, he would often stop for a while. One day, a man passing by asked to take a photo.