El Potito Antonio Vargas Cortés El Potito was born in 1976, in Seville. His parents were Gypsy dancers. At the age of six years he…
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Artist Profiles: El Torta
Juan Moneo Lara (a.k.a. El Torta) was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz, Spain), 1952. He was a Gypsy Flamenco cantaor (singer). His brother…
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José Jiménez Abadía, El Viejín, lives in the Madrid district of Caño Roto, a surprising Gypsy community where several guitarists have their homes (Felipe Maya…
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Emilio Maya was born into a Gypsy family in Molvizar, a village just outside of Granada. At the age of eight he began to play…
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The life of the cantaor Enrique Morente Cotelo, born in Granada, was always tied to cante (singing). As a child he was altar boy in…
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Antonio Núñez Montoya, ‘El Chocolate,’ was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Spain) in May of 1940, but his artistic birth took place in Seville,…
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José Domínguez Muñoz, Better known as El Cabrero, was born in Aznalcóllar, Spain on October 19, 1944. El Cabrero means “the goat herder.” He is…
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‘EA!’s individual character may be attributed to the fact that the band grew out of a group of people who made a conscious decision to…
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Juan Rafael Cortes Santiago, beter known as Duquende, is a talented cantaor born in Sabadell, Spain in 1965. At an early age, he attracted the…
View More Artist Profiles: DuquendeArtist Profiles: Dolores La Agujeta
Dolores Agujeta is the granddaughter of Agujetas el Viejo (old Agujetas), an extraordinary flamenco singer that was not a professional performer. He was a blacksmith…
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