Toni Cruz, founder of Gestmusic, creator of Operación Triunfo, and member of 'La Trinca,' dies.

Toni Cruz, a television producer , passed away this Friday at the age of 78. In 1969, he founded the trio 'La Trinca' with Miquel Àngel Pascual and Josep Maria Mainat.

In addition to her musical career, in the 1980s La Trinca directed and starred in television programs such as 'No passa res'.

Thus, in that decade, in the 1980s, Cruz, born in Girona in 1946, created Gestmusic . He did so with Josep Maria Mainat, and with her they launched television programs such as 'Operación Triunfo', 'Crónicas marcianas', and 'Mira quién baila'.

In 2012, Mainat and Cruz founded Reset TV , dedicated to the creation of television formats.

Reactions to the producer's death have been pouring in since the news broke. "There are many of us, from different generations and places, who grew up with the songs of La Trinca as our soundtrack. Songs full of humor that captured the future of the country," the president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) said in a message on his X profile.

Salvador Illa described him as a "key figure" in television and noted that for all of this, he received the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2019.