{{Short description|Spanish flamenco singer (born 1976)}} '''El Potito''', (born '''Antonio Vargas Cortés''' in Seville in 1976) is a Spanish flamenco and new flamenco singer.<ref name="Rodgers1999">{{cite book|last=Rodgers|first=Eamonn|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIXLhegGnwC&pg=PA375|accessdate=23 August 2012|date=26 July 1999|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-415-13187-2|page=375}}</ref><ref name="Broughton1994">{{cite book|last=Broughton|first=Simon|title=World Music: The Rough Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/worldmusicroughg00brou|url-access=registration|accessdate=23 August 2012|year=1994|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-017-2}}</ref> He has been hailed as a "young singer tipped to be following in the footsteps of [[Camarón de la Isla|El Camaron]]."<ref name="BroughtonEllingham1999">{{cite book|last1=Broughton|first1=Simon|last2=Ellingham|first2=Mark|last3=Trillo|first3=Richard|title=World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East|url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo|url-access=registration|accessdate=23 August 2012|year=1999|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-635-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo/page/291 291]}}</ref> [[Bernard Leblon]] said he has a "prodigious voice capable of hitting incredibly high notes, [and] was an overnight sensation in the world of flamenco."<ref name="Leblon2003">{{cite book|last=Leblon|first=Bernard|title=Gypsies and Flamenco: The Emergence of the Art of Flamenco in Andalusia, Interface Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=farZoyKozikC&pg=PA121|accessdate=23 August 2012|date=1 November 2003|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-1-902806-05-1|page=121}}</ref>
From a child at the age of 10,<ref name="Inc.1999">{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA93|accessdate=23 August 2012|date=20 November 1999|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=93|issn=0006-2510}}</ref> he began acting, singing and flamenco dancing on the tourist boats on the [[Guadalquivir River]]. As a teenager, he collaborated with acclaimed artists such as [[Paco de Lucía]] ("[[Zyryab]]").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/author/potito/594/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123174148/http://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/author/potito/594/|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 January 2013|title=Potito|publisher=Flamencoworld.com|accessdate=23 August 2012}}</ref> By 1996 he had already released two albums with collaborations with [[Vicente Amigo]] and others. He has since performed in a large number of performances internationally, collaborating in performances of [[Joaquin Cortes]] and [[Sara Baras]], and is a singer in the [[Tomatito]] group. Altogether he has released six albums, the last of which is ''Macandé''.
==Discography== ;Contributing artist * ''[[The Rough Guide to Flamenco (1997 album)|The Rough Guide to Flamenco]]'' (1997, [[World Music Network]])
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