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Bambino
Sign in to saveAlso known as Miguel Vargas Jiménez, Miguel Vargas Jimenez
Spanish flamenco singer (1940-1999)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Ho 5 Anni e Sono Bravo
- Ho 6 Anni e Sono Bravo
- Ho 9 Anni e Sono Bravo
- Ho 23 Anni e Sono Bella
- Ho 8 Anni e Sono Bravo
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 1999
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 27,095
- Total plays
- 288,070
Tags
Flamencorumbaspanishtrip-hopdowntempo
Miguel Vargas Jiménez was born in the 12th of february of 1940 in Utrera, Sevilla (Spain). He got his artistic name when he performed `Bambino Piccolino´ in one of the first editions of the Potaje Gitano of Utrera. Because of his special way of singing partyin´ flamenco, by rumba and buleria, he got the title of the King of the Rumba. His music influenced groups like Los Chunguitos, Las Grecas and Los Chichos and we can mention "La pared" (BMG <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bambino">Read mor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Vargas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Utrera
- Place of death
- Utrera
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Genre
- flamenco
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1940-02-12
- date of death
- 1999-05-05
- pseudonym
- Bambino
- relative
- Pastora Imperio
- cause of death
- laryngeal cancer
- second family name in Spanish name
- Jiménez
- birth name
- Miguel Vargas Jiménez
- different from
- Bambino
- manner of death
- natural causes
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