Manolo Caracol

Manuel Ortega Juárez, "Manolo Caracol" was born in 1909 in Seville and died in Madrid in 1973 in a traffic accident in the highway of Corunna.

Originating of one it releases flamenco ancestry, was tataranieto of "the Planet", the first flamenco flamenco singer of whom the news is had.

It began to sing from very small, and in 1922 it obtains a prize in the Aid of Sings Jondo of Granada, organized among others by .

After gaining the life singing in deprived celebrations, its participation in spectacles and films, forming even normally artistic begins with . During this stage it acquired a great popularity.

In 1963 inagura "the Basket makers", to whom he would dedicate the rest of his life.

Although he was a quite long flamenco singer, between his woods more popular are the fandango and zambra. It revolutionized the flamenco one accompanying his you sing of an orchestra or a piano.