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Manuel Gerena,Lope de Vega Theatre, Seville 2020

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By Sevilla AndaluNet on 04/02/2020

19 February 2020
Schedule: 21:o0h
Place: Lope de Vega Theatre, Seville
Price: From € 12.00 to € 3.00

Manuel Gerena in concert. Lope de Vega Theatre, Seville 2020

Manuel Gerena returns to the Lope de Vega Theater to record his next album "Un Rebelde con Causa" live..

Manuel Fernández Gerena was born in the Sevillian town of Puebla de Cazalla in the year 1945, in the bosom of a humble family. Since his teenage days, he was attracted to singing and poetry, dedicating himself first to writing flamenco lyrics, and something later, mid sixties, to sing in competitions in the province of Seville and Córdoba.

In 1968 He made his debut as a professional cantaor in the Jaén town of Alcalá la Real and began his record production in 1971. It is around this time that he first contacted the Cádiz poet Rafael Alberti and the singer-songwriter Paco Ibáñez, that introduces it, in Paris, in the world of protest song and Andalusian immigration.

It soon became a reference in the anti-Franco struggle. Some of his early albums, how were they “Singing to freedom”, “Songs of the people for the people” and “New People Alliance”, they were in charge of making it known throughout the country and soon the bans began, being the most forbidden flamenco singer in the history of the Andalusian genre.

He came to step on many of the police stations in our country and they even took his passport so that he could not leave his land, avoiding in this way that he ended up becoming a poet more exiled from Franco's Spain. But he never left his country: stayed and fought

Tickets: for sale online at entradas.janto.es/icas.