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Gualberto (Garcia Perez), born in Sevilla (Spain), has developed a unique manner to play a mix between flamenco and fusion rock music. He created flamenco sitar which consists to perform flamenco basic scales on sitar. He first introduced his musical "fusion" approach in his first band Smash in the early seventies. Two albums of progressive rock will be published under this name. During these recent years he appeared in Woodstock festival and also met Frank Zappa. In 1975 he started his career in solo, recording his first album personal album "A La Vida Al Dolor" ("To the life and the...

Manuel de los Santos Pastor, also known as El Agujetas or el El Agujeta, (May 17, 1939 – December 25, 2015) was a Flamenco singer. He was born in Rota, Spain. Son of singer Agujetas el Viejo. Both father and son follow the school of Manuel Torre, representative of the tradition of Jerez, and father of singers Dolores Agujetas and Antonio Agujetas. He worked in his father's forge until he went to work in Madrid as a teenager. He took part in the recording of the Magna Antología del Cante, compiled by Blas Vega. He appeared singing a martinete in...

Gualberto Ibarreto (born July 12, 1947 in El Pilar, Sucre state, Venezuela), is a folk singer, and executant of mandolin, cuatro, and guitar. During his childhood, learned the execution of several instruments and received some slight knowledge of academic music from Tobías Hernandez and Raul Bennedetti. Between 1970 and 1975, Gualberto made his first presentations as solo singer, in the auditoriums of the Central University of Venezuela and the University of the Andes. From there, record his first album for Promus, a Venezuelan record seal. This was an extraordinary success and soon he became one of the most popular and...