Miguel Ángel Poveda León (born 13 February 1973) is a Spanish
flamenco
Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the Gitanos, gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Region of Murcia, ...
singer.
Poveda has collaborated with artists from various disciplines who were previously unknown to flamenco audiences. He often collaborates with Spanish flamenco guitarist
Juan Gómez "Chicuelo", with whom he has toured extensively in Europe, Japan and the US.
Early life
Poveda was born in
Barcelona
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,
Catalonia
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, to a father from
Lorca,
Murcia
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, and a mother from
Puertollano
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,
Castilla-La Mancha. In 2003, he moved to
Seville
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.
Discography
* (1998)
* (2001)
* (2005)
* (2006), with Juan Carlos Romero
* (2009), with
Joan Albert Amargós &
Chicuelo
* (2009), with Joan Albert Amargós & Chicuelo
* , Live from (2010)
* (2010)
* (2012)
* (2012)
* (2013), with
Rodolfo Mederos
* (2018)
* (2021)
References
External links
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1973 births
Singers from Barcelona
Flamenco singers
Singers from Catalonia
Living people
Spanish LGBTQ singers
Spanish gay musicians
Gay singers
21st-century Spanish male singers
21st-century Spanish LGBTQ people
LGBTQ people in Latin music