It was music Falla had spent years studying, having grown up with it, hearing it directly from Gitano friends, cantaores and tocaores.
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An ethnic dimension also arises: as to how much the art owes to its strong Gitano elements, or to the Andalusian.
Juan Peña Fernández, also known as Juan Peña "El Lebrijano" or simply El Lebrijano (born 1941) is a Spanish Gitano (Roma) musician, the nephew of Perrate de Utrera.
On market days, the city market, the Mercado de Mieres and nearby streets are filled with vendors and Gypsies (Gitanos) selling a wide variety of products, most especially food and textiles.
He learned the Gypsy flamenco songs by listening to Gypsies, and was encouraged to sing by Gypsy singer El Fillo.
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Recently, popular groups in the genre have included Gitano Family, Ai, ai, ai, Sabor de Gràcia, Estopa, El Chinchilla, Melendi, Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Gertrudis, and La Troba Kung Fú.
279ff, Kenneth Ketner speculates that Juliette was of Spanish Gypsy origin, and that Charles's adding "Santiago" to his name was his way of "informally ... paying tribute to his wife ... and to her cultural origins as a Spanish woman who was a Gitano, or Spanish Gypsy of Andalusia."
Their songs "Vato Loco" featured in the film The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and "El Gitano del Amor" in The Ugly Truth (2009) film.
As a greeting, the word was used by Cheech Marin in his 1987 film Born in East L.A. in the phrase Órale vato, ¡wassápenin! meaning All right man!, what's happening? a popular phrase used by Mexican Americans who have taken the gitano word vato from northern Mexico slang to mean man.