Sebastian Santa Maria
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Sebastian Santa Maria (September 24, 1959 – October 20, 1996)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a Chilean-Swiss musician.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17.
He played the piano in several clubs in Lausanne until beginning a fertile career as a composer, composing a number of songs including some made for Catherine Lara, Bernard Lavilliers, for Viktor Lazlo's album My Delicious Poisons and Isabelle Adjani.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Besides these composing activities, he also played numerous piano duet jazz concerts with François Lindemann, and a few years later, he founded with Lindemann a unique group of seven Steinways called Piano Seven.
He also participated in the reincarnation of British band The Zombies,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> playing on their 1991 album, New World. As a solo artist, he released a few singles and one full-length album (Latino, 1994). A second album, Corpus, was released posthumously in 1997.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Santa Maria died of adrenoleukodystrophy in 1996 in Lausanne.
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