Olivia Newton-John in Barcelona to promote new project with Catalan illustrator

Australian singer and actor, Olivia Newton-John, perhaps best known for her leading role in the film 'Grease', was in Barcelona this week to promote her new CD-book 'LIV ON'.

The book was created in conjunction with Catalan illustrator, Ignasi Blanch, and the two were able to meet and talk for a few hours during Newton-John's visit to the Catalan capital.

Blanch contributed blue-colored pencil drawings to 'LIV ON', which is published by Flamboyant, with the profits from the book going towards cancer research.

"Songs about pain"

According to the singer, her latest work is a disk with "songs about pain, straight from the heart. Ignasi's illustrations fit perfectly with the emotions and lyrics on the disk."

Newton-John and Blanch met during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009, after that their friendship grew until they decided to work together.

Patron of the Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Australia, Newton-John herself suffered cancer in the early 1990s, and she lost her sister to the illness in 2013.

Since 2005, Blanch has run a project called 'Let’s humanize hospitals,' which illustrates and decorates rooms and corridors to make children’s stays in hospitals easier.