Curro de Algeciras
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Date of birth
Place of birth
Biography
José Ruiz Arroyo “Corruco”, was born in La Línea de la Concepción on January 3, 1910, although his birth was not registered in the Civil Registry until the 21st of the same month. However, his family moved in 1911 to Algeciras because his father, who was tobacco, established his business there. Soon Corruco would spend time in places of jondos there, and in 1928 took part in a saetas competition.
A year later he headed to Seville, where he recorded his first albums. Thanks to the popularity that these gave him, from 1930 to 1936 he performed in many Flamenco Opera shows in the best theatres of Spain and Morocco, Seville, Barcelona, Granada, Badajoz, Casablanca, Tangiers, Madrid, etc. up to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
Unrivalled, Corruco was acclaimed for his peculiar fandango and his unique form of expression that dazzled his fans and won him fame and prestige everywhere.
He died at the age of 28, on April 11, 1938, as a solder of the Spanish army at the Front of Segre.
Discography
He recorded his albums between 1931 and 1933, with the companies Compañías Gramófono - La Voz de Su Amo (9 plaques), Parlophon (6) and Odeón (3), producing 36 pieces, 25 fandangos, 3 soleares, 2 tarantas, 2 milongas, and just one of these incomplete works: seguiriyas, malagueñas, campanilleros and granaína, with many lyrics written by his friend ubetense Paco de la Obra Martínez. He was accompanied with the guitar of his inseparable friend form his same town, Manitas de Plata, as well as the guitarists Miguel Borrull, Manolo and Pepe de Badajoz.
