Manuel Agujetas

'''Manuel de los Santos Pastor''', also known as '''El Agujetas''' or el '''El Agujeta''', (17 May 1939 – 25 December 2015) was a [[flamenco]] singer.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://worldmusiccentral.org/2015/12/25/celebrated-flamenco-singer-manuel-agujetas-dies-at-76/ | title=Celebrated Flamenco Singer Manuel Agujetas Dies at 76 | date=25 December 2015 | accessdate=25 December 2015}}</ref>

== Biography == [[File:Monumento a Agujetas - P1380500.jpg|thumb|Monument]]He was born in [[Rota, Spain]] to singer Agujetas el Viejo. Both father and son follow the school of [[Manuel Torre]], representative of the tradition of [[Jerez de la Frontera|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 [[martinetes|martinete]] in Carlos Saura's film ''[[Flamenco (1995 film)|Flamenco]]'' (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. {{ISBN|84-08-01602-4}} * GRIMALDOS, Alfredo: ''Historia social del flamenco'', 2010.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120203120707/https://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/autor/agujetas/510/ Agujetas' biography on flamenco-world.com]

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