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Biography
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Manuel Gerena
Real name: Manuel Fernández Gerena
Effective period / Period of releases: 1972 - 2001
Spanish flamenco 'cantaor'. Born in Puebla de Cazalla in 1945, he started his singing career in 1968. He met Rafael Alberti and Paco Ibañez, following a flamenco-canción protesta wave. He got a big success with records as ‘Cantando a la Libertad’ (1976).