Manuel Agujetas
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Manuel de los Santos Pastor, also known as El Agujetas or el El Agujeta, (b. Rota, Spain, 1939). Flamenco singer. Son of singer Agujetas el Viejo. Both father and son follow the school of Manuel Torre, representative of the tradition of Jerez, 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 (1995) and in Dominique Abel's documentary Agujetas.Cantaor.
[edit] Partial Discography
En la soleá
24 quilates 2002
Grandes Cantaores de flamenco: Agujetas
Agujetas cantaor 1999
El rey del cante gitano 2003
Archivo de flamenco: el Agujetas
[edit] Sources
ÁLVAREZ CABALLERO, Ángel: La Discografía ideal del cante flamenco, Planeta, Barcelona, 1995. ISBN 84-08-01602-4