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Peret

Peret

Acting
24 Mar 1935
27 Aug 2014
Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Biography

Pedro Pubill Calaf, better known as Peret, was a Spanish Romani singer, guitar player, composer and actor, called the King of Catalan Rumba. Known for his 1971 single “Borriquito,” Peret represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song “Canta y sé feliz.” In 1982, Peret withdrew from the music industry, joining the Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia, a large religious community of the Spanish gypsies, devoting himself in the following years exclusively to preaching and other rel...

Also Known As

Pedro Pubill Calaf, Pere Pubill i Calaf

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