Bertsolari Lazkao Txiki died at age 66. As a real name, Joxe Miguel Iztueta Kortajarena put on Gipuzkoa's txapela in 1964 and the following year he was Euskal Herria's runner-up. He was one of the best known bertsolaris, with a great humor talking like a bertso, and in 1998 ETB premiered a series of cartoons about his life.