Peret
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thumb|Peret performing in 2007 Pedro Pubill Calaf (, ; 24 March 1935 – 27 August 2014), better known as Peret, was a Catalan Romani singer, guitar player and composer of Catalan rumba from Mataró (Barcelona).
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1959
- Works
- 45
Top works
- Main forte
- Benjamin Péret
- La brebis galante
- Mort aux vaches et au champ d'honneur
- La brebis galante
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
- Active from
- 1935-03-26
- Active to
- 2014-08-27
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 74,949
- Total plays
- 372,090
Tags
Pere Pubill Calaf, better known as Peret (1935 - 2014) was a Romani Catalan singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Pubill was born on 26th March 1935 in Mataró, Barcelona, the son of a Gypsy clothes-dealing family. He composed and sang in both Spanish and Catalan, and became the first star of rumba in the 1960s. In 1974 he represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest. ---- Perel is found here: https://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Perel --- <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peret">Rea
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Peret
- Musical artist.image
- Aankomst Spaanse zanger Peret op Schiphol, Peret met gouden plaat, Bestanddeelnr 925-1520.jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Peret in 1971
- Musical artist.background
- solo_singer
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Pedro Pubill Calaf
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Mataró (Barcelona), Spain
- Musical artist.death_place
- Barcelona, Spain
- Musical artist.genre
- Catalan rumba
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1957–2014
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Mataró
- Place of death
- Barcelona
- Occupation
- actor
- Award
- Saint George's Cross
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1974
- Genre
- Catalan rumba
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Ariola
- Image
- Aankomst Spaanse zanger Peret op Schiphol, Peret met gouden plaat, Bestanddeelnr 925-1520.jpg
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- date of death
- 2014-08-27
- date of birth
- 1935-03-26
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Peret
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- birth name
- Pere Pubill i Calaf
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Peret, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Career
- Death
- Discography
- Vinyl albums
- CD albums
- Posthumous albums
- Compilation albums
- Singles
- Charts
- Filmography
- Related bibliography
- References
- External links
thumb|Peret performing in 2007 Pedro Pubill Calaf (, ; 24 March 1935 – 27 August 2014), better known as Peret, was a Catalan Romani singer, guitar player and composer of Catalan rumba from Mataró (Barcelona).
== Career == Known for his 1971 single, "Borriquito" (Ariola Records), Peret represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song "Canta y sé feliz" and performed during the closing ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In 2001, Peret recorded and released Rey De La Rumba (King of the Rumba) an album of updated versions of his older songs with guest musicians including Jarabe de Palo, El Gran Silencio, David Byrne of Talking Heads, and more.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peret” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.