{{Short description|Spanish flamenco-blues band}} {{About|the flamenco band|the variety of :ham|pata negra}} {{Multiple issues|{{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} {{Expand Spanish|topic=cult|date=May 2025}}}} [[File:Pata-Negra Alcazar Jerez-dsc01073.jpg|thumb|Pata Negra playing at the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera]]
'''Pata Negra''' is a Spanish flamenco-blues band,<ref>{{cite web |last=Jackson |first=Leon |title=Pata Negra Biography |publisher=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pata-negra-mn0000002748#biography}}</ref> established by brothers Raimundo Amador (singer and guitarist, b. 1959 in Seville) and Rafael Amador (guitarist and cantaor, b. 1960 in Seville) after the breakup of their previous band ''Veneno''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bonacich |first=Drago |title=Raimundo Amador Biography |publisher=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/raimundo-mn0000390802#biography}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Veneno (Grupo musical) |url=https://datos.bne.es/entidad/XX146381.html |website=datos.bne.es |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de España |language=es}}</ref> Their style of derivative rhythms based on flamenco nuevo and blues, which they titled "blueslería" (a word play with the flamenco musical form ''bulería''), made an impact on other modern flamenco music bands.<ref>{{cite book |last=Calado Olivo |first=Silvia |title=Por bulerías: 100 años de compás flamenco |date=2009 |page=158 |publisher=Almuzara |isbn=978-84-92573-88-2 |language=es |url=https://archive.org/details/porbuleras100aos0000cala/page/158/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |volume=VII: Europe |page=297 |editor-last1=Shepherd |editor-first1=J. |editor-last2=Horn |editor-first2=D. |editor-last3=Laing |editor-first3=D. |editor3-link=Dave Laing |date=2005 |publisher=Continuum |isbn=0-8264-7436-5 |last1=García Gallardo |first1=F. J. |last2=Arredondo Pérez |first2=H.|chapter=Spain: Andalucía |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/continuumencyclo0007unse/page/297/mode/1up}}</ref> The Amador brothers, as ''Pata Negra'', recorded five records between 1978 and 1989.
==Discography== ;Albums *''Pata Negra'', 1981 *''Rock Gitano I'', 1982 *''Guitarras callejeras'', 1985 *''Blues de la Frontera'', 1986 *''Inspiración y locura'', 1990 *''El directo'' (Live), 1994 *''Como una vara verde'', 1994
;Other compilations *''Rock Gitano'' (Nuevas Mezclas) *''Best of Pata Negra'', 1998 *''Pata Negra'', 2002
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}} Category:Flamenco groups Category:Spanish musical groups Category:New flamenco