Pepe Marchena Spanish Musician
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Details
| First Name |
Pepe
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| Last Name |
Marchena
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| Alternative Name |
Pepe Marchena
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1902
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| Birthplace |
Marchena, Seville Province, Andalusia, Spain
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| Died |
4th December, 1976
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| Place of Death |
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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| Nationality |
Spanish
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| Occupation Text |
Singer, songwriter, actor
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| Occupation |
Musician
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Flamenco, Andalusian copla
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| Year(s) Active |
1910s-1970s, 1910s–1970s
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José Tejada Marín (November 7, 1903 – December 4, 1976), known as Pepe Marchena and also as Niño de Marchena in the first years of his career, was a Spanish flamenco singer who achieved great success in the ópera flamenca period (1922–1956). Influenced by singers like Antonio Chacón, he carried to the extreme the tendency to a more mellow and ornamented style of flamenco singing. Owing to his particular vocal conditions and singing style, he excelled mainly in palos (styles) like fandangos, cantes de ida y vuelta and cantes libres, contributing to making them the most popular flamenco styles in the era of the ópera flamenca, and created a new cante de ida y vuelta, the colombiana, later recorded by many other artists like El Lebrijano or Enrique Morente. He was also the first flamenco singer to use an orchestra to accompany flamenco singing, though later he returned to the guitar.