Artista - Rafael de Utrera

Biography

Rafael Usero Vilches was born in Utrera in 1973 He studied flamenco thoroughly from an early age with his father, a fan that had a kiosk-bar in the land of Fernanda and Bernarda This way, when he was only ten, Rafael worked all over Andalusia with a youth group and was a regular in festivals and flamenco peñas until he started to work in tablao Los Gallos in 1993, Seville After that, he spent a little time in El Cordobés in Barcelona, and later on in England with Miguel Pérez and Rafael de Carmen In 1996 he won the Nimes´ Singing Competition and gained a great recognition in France, where he became part of Compañía Andaluza de Danza His ability to sing was improved with the time and he was required by artists such as Manuel Soler, Manuela Carrasco, and Cristina Hoyos, in whose company he has worked for many years He has always been related to flamenco people from Morón, and it is because of this that he controls rhythm and a great jondura He learned these qualities from Paco de Lucía, who chose him as the singer of his company for the tour that the guitar master made around the world in 2001 Paco´s call has been the great revulsive in Rafael´s career, who is currently one of the most demanded flamenco singers