# Manuel Agujetas

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Spanish flamenco singer (1933–2015)

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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 [flamenco](/source/Flamenco) singer.[1]

## Biography

Monument

He was born in [Rota, Spain](/source/Rota%2C_Spain) to singer Agujetas el Viejo. Both father and son follow the school of [Manuel Torre](/source/Manuel_Torre), representative of the tradition of [Jerez](/source/Jerez_de_la_Frontera), and father of singers [Dolores Agujetas](/source/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](/source/Martinetes) in Carlos Saura's film *[Flamenco](/source/Flamenco_(1995_film))* (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

1. *Viejo cante jondo* (1972)

1. *Premio Manuel Torre de Canta Flamenco* (1974)

1. *Raíces* (1976)

1. *Palabra viva* (1977)

1. *El color de la hierba* (1978)

1. *Gualberto y Agujetas* (1979)

1. *Grandes Cantaores de flamenco: Agujetas* (1986)

1. *En París* (1990)

1. *El Querer no se puede ocultar* (1998)

1. *En la soleá* (1998)

1. *Agujetas cantaor* (1999)

1. *24 quilates* (2002)

1. *Tres Generaciones* (2002)

1. *El rey del cante gitano* (2003)

1. *Archivo de flamenco: el Agujetas*

1. *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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [84-08-01602-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/84-08-01602-4)

- GRIMALDOS, Alfredo: *Historia social del flamenco*, 2010.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Celebrated Flamenco Singer Manuel Agujetas Dies at 76"](http://worldmusiccentral.org/2015/12/25/celebrated-flamenco-singer-manuel-agujetas-dies-at-76/). 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

## External links

- [Agujetas' biography on flamenco-world.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20120203120707/https://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/autor/agujetas/510/)

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