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2 unusual facts about Juana la Macarrona


Juana la Macarrona

She landed her first regular job at a café cantante in Sevilla, but she earned more in the streets by the equivalent of "passing the hat".

This Spanish article references the writers José Manuel Caballero Bonald and :es:Alfonso Grosso (who also painted her portrait), the flamencólogo professors Daniel Pineda Novo (who wrote her biography) and Juan de la Plata, Pablillos de Valladolid, and her contemporary the flamenco cantaor Fernando el de Triana (1870-1940), who as Fernando Rodríguez Gómez wrote his account of fellow performers, Arte y artistas flamencos (Madrid: Imprenta helénica 1935).



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