Male flamenco singer |
| Name:Ramón Suárez Salazar |
| Birth: 1948 Mérida, Badajoz |
"We were all living in what is a normal room, and thirteen or fourteen of us used to sleep there, not with mattresses, but with straw floorcloths, blankets on the floor... And it is what we did, sing and laugh…".
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Ramón El Portugués is one of the great flamenco cantaores that have come from Extremadura. Although he masters all of the palos (forms), he is particularly outstanding in the cantes from his homeland: the jaleo and the tango extremeño. He learned to sing listening to the members of his gypsy family, who were great enthusiasts of singing and dancing. He is the nephew of the great singer Porrina de Badajoz and the father of the percussionists Ramón Porrina and El Piraña, and of the guitarist Paquete. He has always been a strong supporter of the notion that you need to be a gypsy to be a flamenco artist.
He had carried out practically his entire artistic career in Madrid in tablaos like Las Cuevas de Nemesio, when this tablao was experiencing its golden age, in Los Canasteros, Café de Chinitas, Torres Bermejas..., where he accompanied the dancing of artists like Mario Maya and El Güito, and he has worked with other musicians like Camarón, El Turronero and Paco Cepero.
Until the seventies he almost exclusively devoted himself to accompanying dancing with his singing, what is known in flamenco speak as cante atrás (singing from behind). He then began a solo career without giving up his work in tablaos. He has not received the recognition that he deserves. Few people know about the influence that he exercised on Camarón, who took many of the elements of his singing from El Portugués. |
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Quiero
 Pedro Ojesto Trío
Price: US$ 26.67
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Túmbanos si puedes
La Barbería del Sur
List price: US$ 21.24
Discount: 10%
Price: US$ 19.12
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Jucal
Gerardo Núñez
Price: US$ 25.39
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