Sebastian Santa Maria

Keyboard player (mostly piano). Born in 1959 in Santiago/Chile, settled in Lausanne/Switzerland at age 17. He played the piano in several clubs in Lausanne until beginning a career as a composer, including cooperations with Catherine Lara, Bernard Lavilliers, [a33202] and Isabelle Adjani. In 1987, he founded a group of seven pianists with Swiss jazz musician François Lindemann named Piano Seven. He participated on the reincarnation of British band The Zombies, playing on their 1991 album, "New World". He died of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) in 1996 in Lausanne.