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List Of Galician People
This is a list of famous Galician people. Arts *Delmi Álvarez, photographer *Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), painter * Mariano Grueiro (born 1975), activist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, artist * Francisco Calvelo (born 1982), filmmaker *Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza (1875–1960), painter *Gregorio Fernández (1576–1636), Baroque sculptor *Victor Moscoso (born 1936), Spanish-American artist *Luís Seoane (1910–1979), lithographer and artist *Isaac Díaz Pardo (1920–2012), artist and businessman Actors *María Casares (1922–1996) *José Garcia (actor) (born 1966) *Nancho Novo (born 1958) *La Belle Otero (1868–1965), dancer, actress, and courtesan *Fernando Rey (1917–1994) *Martin Sheen a.k.a. Ramon Estevez (born 1940) (part Irish, part Galician) *Charlie Sheen a.k.a. Carlos Estevez (born 1965) (father part Galician) *Emilio Estevez (born 1962) (father part Galician) *Luis Tosar (born 1971) * Jesús Vázquez (born 1965) *Paula Vázquez (born 1974) *Pedro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maruja Mallo
Maruja Mallo (born Ana María Gómez González; 5 January 1902 – 6 February 1995) was a Spanish surrealist painter. She is considered an artist of the Generation of 1927 within the Spanish avant-garde movement. Biography Mallo was the fourth daughter of fourteen children born to Justo Gómez Mallo (Customs Corps Official and native of Madrid) and María del Pilar González Lorenzo, born in Viveiro, Spain, on 5 January 1902. She is the older sister of sculptor Cristino Mallo (born in Tui in 1905). Early years When she was a young girl, Mallo would alternate between living with parents and her aunt (Juliana Lastres Carrer) and uncle (Ramiro Gonzalez Lorenzo). While living with her aunt and uncle at a young age, she felt inspired to create and express herself through artwork. After the birth of one of her brothers, the family moved to Avilés, where they remained from 1913 to 1922. In 1922 at age 20, Mallo’s family moved to Madrid. There, she began to study at the San Fernan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films ''The Subject Was Roses'' (1968) and ''Badlands'' (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series ''The West Wing'' (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series ''Grace and Frankie'' (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in ''Badlands''. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in ''Apocalypse Now'' earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Codax
Martin Codax or Codaz, Martín Codax () or Martim Codax () was a Galician medieval ''joglar'' (non-noble composer and performer, as opposed to a ''trobador''), possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present-day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis. He is one of only two out of a total of 88 authors of ''cantigas d'amigo'' who used ''only'' the archaic strophic form ''aaB'' (a rhymed distich followed by a refrain). He employed an archaic rhyme-system whereby ''i~o / a~o'' were used in alternating strophes. In addition Martin Codax consistently utilised a strict parallelistic technique known as ''leixa-pren'' (see the example below; the order of the third and fourth strophes is inverted in the Pergaminho Vindel but the correct order appears in the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional in Portugal, and the Cancioneiro da Vaticana). There is no documentary biographical information concerning the poet, dating the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manu Chao
Manu Chao (; born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on 21 June 1961) is a French-Spanish singer. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995 and since then tours regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba. Early life Chao's mother, Felisa Ortega, is from Bilbao, Basque Country, and his father, writer and journalist Ramón Chao, is from Vilalba, Galicia. They emigrated to Paris to avoid Francisco Franco's dictatorship—Manu's grandfather had been sentenced to death. Shortly after Manu's birth, the Chao family moved to the outskirts of Paris, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luz Casal
María Luz Casal Paz (; born 11 November 1958) is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in the municipality of Boimorto, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician. She became famous in the early 1980s, and remained an important figure in Spanish pop music all through said decade and beyond, with her sound gradually maturing towards soft adult pop. She recorded a cover version of Étienne Daho's French language song "Duel au Soleil" in Spanish called "Un nuevo día brillará", which became a hit song. Since the beginning of her career, she has sold over five million albums. In 1992, she enjoyed great success with her appearance in the soundtrack of Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed film ''High Heels'' singing Agustín Lara's theme " Piensa en mí". In January 2007, Luz Casal was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent an operation at the Ruber Clinic in Madrid., seven months later, she revealed to the Spanish media that she had overc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avelino Cachafeiro
Avelino Cachafeiro Bugallo, called O Gaiteiro de Soutelo (May 26, 1899 – April 13, 1972) was a Galician musician, who played the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe. Cachafeiro also wrote poetry, painted, and owned businesses. In 1969, he published ''Voando coas aas da vida'' (''Flying with the Wings of Life''), a book of poetry. Background Cachafeiro was born in Soutelo de Montes in Galicia, Spain, into a family of musicians from Terra de Montes, and he learned to play the bagpipes with his grandfather Xan. His father, named Fermín, gave him his own bagpipes. He created the bagpipes group Os Gaiteiros de Soutelo, along with his brothers Castor (bagpipe) and Bautista (voice), his father Fermín (bass-drum) and his aunt Andrea, who sometimes played with them on the pandeiro. When he was 25 years old, he was proclaimed the best gaita player of Galicia in a contest at Santiago in 1924. In 1928, the group recorded "Muiñeira de Chantada", "Alborada de Rosalía", "muiñeira d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troubadour
A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairitz''. The troubadour school or tradition began in the late 11th century in Occitania, but it subsequently spread to the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas. Under the influence of the troubadours, related movements sprang up throughout Europe: the Minnesang in Germany, ''trovadorismo'' in Galicia and Portugal, and that of the trouvères in northern France. Dante Alighieri in his ''De vulgari eloquentia'' defined the troubadour lyric as ''fictio rethorica musicaque poita'': rhetorical, musical, and poetical fiction. After the "classical" period around the turn of the 13th century and a mid-century resurgence, the art of the troubadours declined in the 14th century and around the time of the Black Death (1348) it died out. The texts of troubadou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernal De Bonaval
Bernal(do) de Bonaval(le), also known as Bernardo (de) Bonaval, was a 13th-century troubadour in the Kingdom of Galicia (in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in parts of modern Portugal and Spain) who wrote in the Galician-Portuguese language. Biography Little is known for certain about Bernal's background, life, or career. Sources say that he was a native of Santiago de Compostela, which is in the modern Spanish Province of A Coruña. He mentions a place called "Bonaval" in several of his poems. It has been suggested that he was born outside the mediaeval city walls of Santiago, because "de Bonaval" may refer to the Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval, which is outside those walls. It has also been suggested that "Bernal de Bonaval" and (in Latin) "Frater Bernardus, prior Bone Uallis" ("Brother Bernardus, prior of Bone Uallis") may have been one and the same. If that suggestion is correct, then Bernal may have been a friar in the Dominican Order, and "de Bonaval" may refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafne Keen
Dafne María Keen Fernández (born 4 January 2005) is a British-Spanish actress. She made her debut starring as Ana "Ani" Cruz Oliver on the television series '' The Refugees'' from 2014 to 2015, before her breakthrough starring as Laura in the 2017 superhero film ''Logan'', in which she received widespread critical acclaim for her acting. She received several awards, including an Empire Award for Best Newcomer, and nominations for a Critics' Choice Award and a Saturn Award. In 2019, she began starring as Lyra Belacqua in the television series ''His Dark Materials'', for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Cymru. Early life Keen was born in Madrid. She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen, and Spanish actress, theatre director, and writer María Fernández Ache. Her paternal great-grandfather was Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe;Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 148th edition, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2011, p. 799 her aunts are poet Alice Oswald and writer Laura Beatty. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Alonso
Pedro González Alonso (born 21 June 1971), known as Pedro Alonso, is a Spanish actor, writer, and artist. He is best known for his role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the Spanish heist series ''Money Heist'' (''La casa de papel'') and for the role of Diego Murquía in the historical drama series ''Grand Hotel''. Early life Pedro González Alonso was born in Vigo, Spain. He studied at Royal School of Dramatic Arts (RESAD) in Madrid, graduating in 1992, and at Teatro de la Danza (Theatre of Dance). Alonso is ambidextrous and speaks Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and English. He is also a writer and artist, publishing his work under the name ''Pedro Alonso O'choro''. Career He is known for his performances on television in ''Rías Baixas'' (2003–2005), ''Maridos e mulleres'' (2006–2008), ''Padre Casares'' (2008–2015), and ''Gondar'' (2009) at a local level in Galicia and nationally for playing characters such as Diego Murquía / Adrián Vera Celande in historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Vázquez
Paula Vázquez Picallo (born 26 November 1974) is a Spanish television presenter, also known for her modelling career in the fashion industry as well as her acting. She was born at Ferrol, Galicia. National career as a television presenter in Spain * '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' (1993–1994), Televisión Española. * '' La vuelta a la fama'' (1994), Televisión Española. * '' No te olvides el cepillo de dientes'' (1994), Antena 3. * '' Luar'' (1995), TVG. * '' El rastrillo'' (1995), Antena 3. * '' Sonrisas de España'' (1996), Antena 3. * '' Mira quién viene esta noche'' (1997), Antena 3. * ''La parodia nacional'' (1997–1998), Antena 3. * '' Inocente, inocente'' (1998), Telecinco. * '' El juego del euromillón'' (1998–2001), Telecinco. * '' Fort Boyard'' (2001), Telecinco. * '' Gran Hermano'' (2002), Telecinco. * ''Mira tú por dónde'' (2002), Antena 3. * ''El gran test'' (2002), Antena 3. * ''Por ti'' (2003), Antena 3. * ''La isla de los famosos'' (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Vázquez (television Presenter)
Jesús Vázquez Martínez (born 9 September 1965) is a Spanish television presenter. In 2008 he became the first Spaniard to be selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Biography Vázquez was born in Ferrol, Galicia. He moved to Melilla, where he joined as an undergraduate at the local Veterinary School; however, before he could complete his studies he moved to Madrid. In this period he worked as model. Vázquez rose to fame in the early 1990s as the host of two television shows aimed at the teenage audience aired on Telecinco: ''La quinta marcha'' (1990-1991), which he hosted alongside Penélope Cruz, and ''Hablando se entiende la basca'' (1991-1993). In this period he starred in the film ''Aquí el que no corre, vuela''. (1992), directed by Ramón Fernández and produced by Telecinco, along with Alfredo Landa, Arturo Fernández, Arancha del Sol and Natalia Estrada. In 1993 he ventured into singing with the album ''A dos milímetros escasos de tu boca'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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