{{Short description|Spanish flamenco singer (born 1968)}} {{family name hatnote|Jiménez|Salazar|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox musical artist |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|12|27}} |birth_place = Madrid, Spain |image = Diego el Cigala, Filharmonia Bałtycka, 03.12.2024 10.jpg |caption = Diego el Cigala in 2024 |instrument = Vocals |genre = Flamenco }} '''Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar''' (born 27 December 1968 in [[Madrid]]), known as '''El Cigala''' ([[Spanish language|Castillan]] for '[[Langoustine]]'), is a [[Gitanos|Spanish Romani]] [[Flamenco]] singer.<ref name="El Mundo">{{cite web|title=Diego el Cigala obtiene la nacionalidad dominicana|url=http://www.elmundo.es/loc/2014/03/06/5318d792268e3ee2508b4599.html |work = El Mundo |date=6 March 2014 |publisher=[[Unidad Editorial Información General]] S.L.U|access-date=March 7, 2014}}</ref> He also holds Dominican citizenship.<ref name="El Mundo"/> He is nephew of singers [[Rafael Farina]] and [[Rafael Salazar Motos]] and first cousin once removed of pop-singer [[Tamara (Spanish singer)|Tamara]].
==Biography== [[File:Del teatro inclusivo a una traca final de conciertos para el cierre de San Isidro 08.jpg|thumb|Diego el Cigala (2018).]] Born into a family of [[Romani people|Romani]] artists and intellectuals in Madrid, Jiménez started his career singing in flamenco clubs, until he caught the attention of flamenco dancers such as [[Mario Maya]] and [[Joaquín Cortés]], and with guitarist [[Antón Jiménez]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-27 |title=ABC MADRID 04-08-1993 página 74 - Archivo ABC |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19930804-74.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=abc}}</ref> began touring as part of their companies. By the late 1990s, after collaborating on recordings by [[Camarón de la Isla]], [[Tomatito]], [[Gerardo Núñez]] and [[Vicente Amigo]], he recorded his debut album "Undebel". He has since recorded a further seven albums, and has won two Grammy awards and five Latin Grammy nominations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.deflamenco.com/noticias/verArticulo.jsp?codigo=FLA%7C1621 |access-date=2018-09-09 |title=Noticias de Flamenco }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elcigala.com/en/biography|title=Diego el Cigala - Web Oficial|website=www.elcigala.com|access-date=2011-05-25|archive-date=2011-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312121341/http://www.elcigala.com/en/biography|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andalucia.com/flamenco/musicians/el-cigala.htm|title=Flamenco - Diego el Cigala - Andalucia.com|website=www.andalucia.com|date=12 February 2014 }}</ref>
In 2010, he voiced [[Buzz Lightyear]] (when in "Spanish mode") for the European Spanish dub of ''[[Toy Story 3]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.gitanos.org/actualidad/archivo/52970.html|title= 'El Cigala' pone voz a Buzz Lightyear en Toy Story 3|language=Spanish}}</ref>
His wife, Amparo Fernández, died in 2015 from [[cancer]] in [[Punta Cana]].<ref>[https://es.noticias.yahoo.com/fallece-rep%C3%BAblica-dominicana-esposa-cantante-diego-cigala-173001793.html Yahoo] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20150821130439/https://es.noticias.yahoo.com/fallece-rep%C3%BAblica-dominicana-esposa-cantante-diego-cigala-173001793.html |date=2015-08-21 }}</ref>
== Discography == *1998 – Undebel *2000 – Entre vareta y Canasta *2001 – Corren tiempos de alegría *2002 – Teatro Real (Live album) *2003 – [[Lágrimas Negras (album)|Lágrimas negras]] *2003 – Blanco y Negro en vivo (Bebo & Cigala) (Live album) *2005 – Picasso en mis ojos *2008 – Dos lágrimas *2010 – Cigala & Tango (Live album) *2013 – Romance de la luna Tucumana *2013 – Vuelve el flamenco (Live album) *2016 – Indestructible *2020 – Cigala canta a México
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==External links== {{commonscat}} *{{official website|http://www.elcigala.com/}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051203093557/http://www.esflamenco.com/bio/en10742.html Diego el Cigala biography and discography] *[http://www.falseta.com/forum/ Flamenco Forum]
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