Peret

Peret

Born: March 24, 1935
Died: August 27, 2014
in Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Pedro Pubill Calaf, better known as Peret, was a Spanish Romani singer, guitar player, composer and actor, called the King of Catalan Rumba. Known for his 1971 single “Borriquito,” Peret represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song “Canta y sé feliz.” In 1982, Peret withdrew from the music industry, joining the Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia, a large religious community of the Spanish gypsies, devoting himself in the following years exclusively to preaching and other religious activities. After leaving the church in 1991, he resumed his music activity and recorded new albums. In 1992, he sang at the Barcelona Olympic Games during the closing ceremonies. Peret died in Barcelona in 2014 from lung cancer, aged 79.

Movies for Peret...

Peret i l'origen de la rumba catalana
Title: Peret i l'origen de la rumba catalana
Character: Himself
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: Movie
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Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba
Title: Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba
Character: Self - Singer (archive footage)
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
An account of the personal and artistic life of the Spanish singer Peret (1935-2014), the artist who imaginatively mixed various musical styles, such as mambo, tanguillo and rock, to create the gypsy rumba. An epic adventure, from a humble neighborhood of Barcelona to the biggest stages of the world.
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Petitet
Title: Petitet
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Joan Ximénez el Petitet is a Catalan gypsy who pursues a dream. A former musician now —a percussionist, son of Ramón el Huesos who worked with the mythical singer Peret—, and affected by a rare chronic disease, he wants to accomplish the promise he made to his mother before she died: to celebrate a rumba concert on the stage of the Liceu, a great theater in Barcelona, along with a big symphony orchestra.
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Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta
Title: Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
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¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
Title: ¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
Released: December 1, 2013
Type: Movie
'¡Cuchíbiri cuchíbiri!' is the story of the Catalan rumba. Created by Catalan gypsies, this documentary is narrated by its very creator: Peret, who sold millions of records around the world. Stories about stardom, friendship and family, yet also about his disenchantment with the music industry. A man who took charge of his destiny with sheer determination and talent, and then simply walked away.
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Title: Cachitos de hierro y cromo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 2013
Type: TV
Cachitos de hierro y cromo is a Spanish musical-themed documentary program, directed by Jero Rodríguez and hosted by Virginia Díaz. It is an unapologetic musical display of RTVE's sound legacy in the form of performances on the set of programs such as 'Aplauso', 'Galas del Sábado', 'Mapa Sonoro', 'Zona Franca' or 'Los Conciertos de Radio 3'. For nearly 60 years, artists and other specimens have stormed viewers' screens. The result is a polyphony of images and memories that includes everything from James Brown to Camela, from Perales to REM, from Gabinete to Violent Femmes. And so all the time. Our secret weapon has been the historical archive of TVE, the repository of Spanish collective memory for more than half a century.
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Killer Housewives
Title: Killer Housewives
Character: Cura
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
In Madrid, Azu's husband Filipe is smug and boorish, but it's his money she slips to family members constantly in need of cash and that she uses to buy gifts for her lover, Pablo. Things start to fall apart when Pablo wants to leave her and when Filipe wants to evict Azu's cousin from a butcher shop he rents. Azu hatches a plan that relies on her sister, her cousin the butcher, and his mentally-challenged delivery man. When things start to go wrong, can Azu make them right?
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¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!
Title: ¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!
Character: Peret / Antonio
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: Movie
The Loinaz siblings live off petty theft in refined environments. When they find out that Peret is going to shoot a movie in Marbella, the whole family moves their headquarters to Marbella.
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A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa
Title: A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa
Character: Pedro
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Pedro is a famous singer who fall in love with a psychiatrist girlfriend, he decides to attend to the doctor with the story that he does not like women. The psychiatric nurse helps him with the girl as she is in love with the doctor.
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Si Fulano fuese Mengano
Title: Si Fulano fuese Mengano
Character: Raúl Arévalo / Miguel García
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Raúl Arévalo and Miguel García seem like a drop of water to another, but there the similarity ends. Raul is a famous singer, womanizer, despotic, cruel and millionaire. Instead Michael is an honest worker, cheerful and loving who enjoys the simple things forward. Fate will know them and life will never be the same for either.
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El mesón del gitano
Title: El mesón del gitano
Character: Peret
Released: February 24, 1970
Type: Movie
The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
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Amor a todo gas
Title: Amor a todo gas
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
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El taxi de los conflictos
Title: El taxi de los conflictos
Character: El bígamo
Released: April 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Musical. Thaddeus (Juanjo Menéndez) is a taxi driver who is about to experience a busy work day. Throughout the day you climb into his cab heteogéneos the more characters, which give rise to the most varied situations. When one of them left in the taxi leaves a baby, Thaddeus will have to find out who's not forget that at the end of the day has a date with a mysterious woman (Concha Velasco), apparently, have to tell you something very important.
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Un día después de agosto
Title: Un día después de agosto
Character: Guitarist
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: Movie