Peret
Sign in to savethumb|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).
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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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- Peret
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- Peret in 1971
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- solo_singer
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- Pedro Pubill Calaf
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- Mataró (Barcelona), Spain
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- Barcelona, Spain
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- Catalan rumba
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1957–2014
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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).
== 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.
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1935 births2014 deaths20th-century Spanish guitarists20th-century Spanish male composers20th-century Spanish male singers20th-century Spanish singer-songwritersAriola Records artistsBiography articles needing translation from German WikipediaBiography articles needing translation from Spanish WikipediaCatalan rumbaComposers from Catalonia