Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (b.1947)is a Catalan singer from the island of Mallorca. She is a well-known performer, one of the most popular from the Mediterranean region. She studied ceramics in the school or arts, but eventually she decided to dedicate herself to song. She arrived to Barcelona in 1967, where she started to sing with the group Els Setze Jutges, from that moment on she has already published many albums of folk music in Catalan, in spite of the prohibitions during Francisco Franco's dictatorship.