Agujetas
Full name
Place of birth
Biography
Manuel de los Santos Pastor was born in Rota in Cadiz in 1939. The son of Agujetas el Viejo, Manuel forged himself as a singer.
In the sixties he moved to Madrid to record his first album, accompanied by the guitar of Manolo Sanlúcar. Thanks to this he worked in many 'tablao' -premises where flamenco is performed- in the capital, until in 1977 he won Jerez de la Frontera's Professorship of the Study of Flamenco Award.
Afterwards he went to the United States, at which point he was already consolidated as an essential figure of this genre A follower of the ' school and a gypsy singer for better or for worse. He excelled in his performance of 'seguiriyas' and 'soleares', although his great depth can be seen in his 'tonás', as he demonstrated in the film Flamenco by Carlos Saura.
In 2000 the French filmmaker Dominique Abel presented the documentary Agujetas cantaor, where the artist explained his polemic vision of flamenco.
He died in Jerez de la Frontera on December 25, 2015.
Discography
"Viejo Cante Jondo'" (CBS, 1970)
"Cantes Gitanos de Manuel Agujetas" (Ariola, 1972) with the guitar of Parrilla de Jerez.
"Fandangos De La Libertad" (7") (CBS, 1972)
"Rutas del cante jondo" (Ariola, 1973), produced by the composer from Jerez, José Manuel Caballero Bonald.
"Cantes Gitanos de Manuel Agujetas" (Cass, Álbum) (Flash (6), Flash (6), 1973)
"Cantes Gitanos de Manuel Agujetas" (7", Single) (Ariola, 1973)
"La Muerte no viene a verme... / Mi China se fue a Alemania" (7", Single) (Benzo Records (2), 1973)
"Cien años atrás" (Compañía Fonográfica Española, 1974), with Manolo Sanlúcar at the guitar.
"Cante Viejo" (Benzo Records, 1974)
"Por derecho" (Compañía Fonográfica Española, 1975)
"Cantes Gitanos de Manuel Agujetas" (LP, Álbum) (Gramusic, 1976)
"Detente Judas/ Una Limosna" (Compañía Fonográfica Española, 1976), a single with two saetas.
"Cantes de Siempre" (Euromusic, 1976)
"En la verea" (Compañía Fonográfica Española, 1977),
"Lo muy bastante" (Zafiro, 1977), with the guitar of David Serva.
"Palabra viva" (1977), guitar of David Serva, another record of Bonald, in memory of his father who passes away at the end of 1976, that includes songs by both of them.
"El color de la hierba" (Doblón, 1978)
"Vanguardia y Pureza del Flamenco" (CFE, 1978), with Manolo Sanlúcar at the guitar. It's an album shared with the band Smash, comprised of Manuel Molina and Gualberto, among other artists.
El Turronero, Manuel Gerena, El Sordera, Manuel Agujetas, Antonio Mairena, Beni De Cádiz - Bujerías - "Los Más Grandes" (Cassette, Compilation) (Trama(2), 1979)
"De los siete dolores" (Zafiro, 1979)
"Gualberto y Agujetas" (Movieplay, 1979)
"Grands Cantaores du Flamenco"- Volumen 8 (LP, Comp) (Le Chant du Monde, 1986). Francia
"El Querer no se puede ocultar" (Diamante, 1986).
"Vanguardia y Pureza del Flamenco" (LP, Álbum, RE) (Serdisco, 1989)
"Vanguardia y Pureza del Flamenco" (Cass, Álbum) (Zafiro, 1989)
"Agujetas en París" (Ocora-Harmonia, 1991), with Periquín Niño Jero at the guitar.
"Vanguardia y Pureza del Flamenco"(CD, Álbum, RE) (Chapa discos, 1994)
"En la soleá" (Alia, 1998), with Curro de Jerez at the guitar, in the styles of the great masters like Paco La Luz, Cagancho, Joaquín el de la Paula or Manuel Torre.
"Viejo Cante Jondo" (CD, Miscellaneous) (Columbia, 1999)
"Agujetas Cantaor" (Naive, 1999), France
"Fandangos para la Libertad" (2000)
"24 Quilates" (Muxxic, 2001)
"Agujetas tres generaciones" (BMG, 2002) where his voice joins that of his father and his son Antonio.
"Galería del Cante Flamenco" (Trotamusic, 2004) compilation.
"Grands Cantaores du Flamenco" - Volume 8 (CD, Comp, RE) (Le Chant du Monde, 2010). France
"VORS", (de la BBK, 2012) together with the great voices of Jerez, Manuel Moneo, Luis El Zambo, Capullo de Jerez, El Torta and Fernando de la Morena.
"Al mejor de los nacío"(2014) Self-edited saetas recorded at the La Bodega de Jerez studios, together with his son Antonio Agujetas.
