Antonio Arias

Antonio Arias Solana (born 1965) is a musician, singer, and songwriter. At sixteen, in 1982, he joined the Granada-based band 091, with whom he released three albums. In 1990, he founded his own band, Lagartija Nick, releasing 15 albums including notable works like Omega (1996) in collaboration with Enrique Morente, and the recent "El perro andaluz" (Montgrí, 2023), based on the poetry of Luis Buñuel. In 2009, coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, he launched his solo career with the album Multiverso, followed by Multiverso II (from the soleá of science to the physics of immortality) in 2013, and Multiverso III in 2015, dedicating these works to astronomical poetry and scientific dissemination. In 2021, he embarked on his most ambitious project: Hello Earth/ Hola Tierra, based on the poetry of astronaut Alfred Worden (Apollo XV), a book-album with songs in both English and Spanish, realized with the support of the IAA-CSIC and the Instituto Cervantes. In 2023, the book "In the Satellite of Lagartija Nick, Conversations with Antonio Arias" by Óscar Cabrera was published by Muzikalia, alongside the release of the first single "Hora primera" by Mawlid, a folk-Andalusian music group he formed with Ramón Rodríguez of Fandila, drawing on the poetry of Ibn Al Jatib and blending Arab and Granadian music.