The composer, guitarist and singer Manuel Molina , the duo “Lole and Manuel” and precursor called “Nuevo flamenco” , died today at age 67 in San Juan de Aznalfarache victim of cancer, sources of the City of the Seville town.
Manuel Molina, born in 1948, was part Dolores Montoya flamenco duo “Lole and Manuel”, whom he married and became parents of an artist Alba Molina.
In the early seventies he began his career with the trio “The gypsies of Tardón”, in which were Antonio Cortés “Chiquetete” and Manuel Dominguez.
“Flamenco did not matter to anyone. Now He was pointing to EFE flamenco really sells records because there are real people who know how to do and thanks to Camarón, who was able to hear people from the simplest, a bulería, to the most complicated, the seguirillas “.
Then he went through the “Smash” group and found “electronic music without abandoning my flamenco, but knowing that there was something more,” and achieved success with his “Garrotín”.
Manuel Molina with “Smash” discovered “by the Beatles and Pink Floyd, which was more than flamenco”, and “Lole and Manuel” managed “to prove that flamenco is something for everyone” and tasted the sweetness of success with its revolutionary album “New Day”.
When he began his solo career in 1999, he took his album “The street of the kiss” and faced the music singing, something that was not used its audience, and in a time that flamenco lived one of its Best moments.
Later, he produced the album of his daughter Alba, with whom he had to record his solo debut, “I tested other women but in the end was Alba that I liked, perhaps because the fact of being at home knew what I wanted for my album. ”
One of the last performances of Manuel Molina was last year accompanying his daughter in Madrid, this time also singing, but always chose to remain “silent” and be known “only” as “music and lyrics” Lole.
Molina currently devoted his efforts to a book that collected the poems he wrote throughout his life and that he was commenting.
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