Sebastian Santa Maria

Sebastian Santa Maria (September 24, 1959 – October 20, 1996)^[1] was a Chilean-Swiss musician.^[2] He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17.

Sebastian Santa Maria
Santa Maria, 1983
Background information
Born	(1959-09-24)24 September 1959 Santiago, Chile
Died	20 October 1996(1996-10-20) (aged 37) Lausanne, Switzerland
Genres	Soft Rock Jazz

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.^[3]

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,^[4] 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.

Santa Maria died of adrenoleukodystrophy in 1996 in Lausanne.