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Manuel de los Santos Pastor, also known as El Agujetas or el El Agujeta, (17 May 1939 – 25 December 2015) was a
Agujetas was known for his unique and sometimes eccentric personality, his insistence on living a simple life despite his status as a revered flamenco artist, his metal teeth, and his deep, intense and affecting singing.
Agujetas' biography on flamenco-world.com
1939 births 2015 deaths Flamenco singers Singers from Andalusia 20th-century Spanish singers 21st-century Spanish singers People from Rota, Andalusia 20th-century Spanish male singers 21st-century Spanish male singers {{spain-singer-stub
flamenco
Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura an ...
singer.
Biography
He was born inRota, Spain
The town of Rota is a Spanish municipality located in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Its surface area is 84 km2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. It is located near the city of ...
to singer Agujetas el Viejo. Both father and son follow the school of Manuel Torre
Manuel Soto Loreto, known as Manuel Torre or Manuel Torres (1878 – 1933), was a Romani (Kalo) flamenco singer.
Beginning
Torre was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, in the neighbourhood of San Miguel, which together with the neighbou ...
, representative of the tradition of Jerez
Jerez de la Frontera (), or simply Jerez (), is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains. , the c ...
, and father of singers Dolores Agujetas and Antonio Agujetas. He worked in his father's forge until he went to work in Madrid as a teenager. He took part in the recording of the ''Magna Antología del Cante'', compiled by Blas Vega. He appeared singing a martinete in Carlos Saura's film ''Flamenco
Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura an ...
'' (1995) and in Dominique Abel's documentary ''Agujetas.Cantaor''.
Agujetas was known for his unique and sometimes eccentric personality, his insistence on living a simple life despite his status as a revered flamenco artist, his metal teeth, and his deep, intense and affecting singing.
Partial discography
# ''Viejo cante jondo'' (1972) # ''Premio Manuel Torre de Canta Flamenco'' (1974) # ''Raíces'' (1976) # ''Palabra viva'' (1977) # ''El color de la hierba'' (1978) # ''Gualberto y Agujetas'' (1979) # ''Grandes Cantaores de flamenco: Agujetas'' (1986) # ''En París'' (1990) # ''El Querer no se puede ocultar'' (1998) # ''En la soleá'' (1998) # ''Agujetas cantaor'' (1999) # ''24 quilates'' (2002) # ''Tres Generaciones'' (2002) # ''El rey del cante gitano'' (2003) # ''Archivo de flamenco: el Agujetas'' # ''Agujetas: Historia, Pureza y Vanguardia Del Flamenco'' (2012, five cd's anthology)Sources
* ÁLVAREZ CABALLERO, Ángel: ''La Discografía ideal del cante flamenco'', Planeta, Barcelona, 1995. * GRIMALDOS, Alfredo: ''Historia social del flamenco'', 2010.References
External links
Agujetas' biography on flamenco-world.com
1939 births 2015 deaths Flamenco singers Singers from Andalusia 20th-century Spanish singers 21st-century Spanish singers People from Rota, Andalusia 20th-century Spanish male singers 21st-century Spanish male singers {{spain-singer-stub