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in flamenco music.

Biography

José Luis Ganoza Barrionuevo, known as Pepe Ébano, was born in

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, Peru on December 12, 1935, son of Valentina Barrionuevo, owner of "La Peña Valentina", in Lima, where he promoted Peruvian Creole music, and in his honor the dance contest "La Valentina de Oro" was organized. Pepe Ébano arrived in Spain in 1956 with singer Alberto Cortez 'El Original', who has played in the TVE orchestra and with the most important Spanish and Latin American musicians. He is mistakenly identified as 'José Sánchez' and is sometimes attributed with Cuban or Puerto Rican nationality. He died in

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on July 8, 2022, aged 86.

Discography

* Alfonso Santisteban & Rafael Ferro - Flamenco Pop (album), 1969. *

- Entre dos aguas (single), 1973. *

- Fuente y caudal (album), 1973. * Vainica Doble - Heliotropo (album), 1973. * Juan Camacho - Juan Camacho (album), 1974. * Juan Camacho - A ti, mujer (album), 1975 *

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- Poco ruido y mucho duende (album), 1978. *

- Verde (album), 1978. *

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- La leyenda del tiempo (album), 1979. *

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- Vuela Alto (album), 1986. *

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- Entre el cielo y el suelo (album), 1986. *

- Cruz de navajas (single), 1986. *

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(album), 1988. *

- Figlio della luna (album), 1989. * Cántores de Híspalis - Por la paz (album), 1988. *

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- Soñadores de España (album), 1989. *

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- Por derecho (album), 1992. *

- Toda una vida (album), 1994. *

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- La herencia del viejo sabor (album), 2004. *

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- El endémico embustero y el incauto pertinaz (''La triste cagalera)'', 2007.

References

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