Manolo Escobar
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Manuel García Escobar |
| Born | 19 October 1931 Las Norias de Daza, El Ejido, Almería, Andalucía  Spain |
| Genres | Copla, Rumba, Pasodoble, Bolero, Tango, Vals |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actor, presenter. |
| Instrument | voice |
| Years active | 1958 - present |
| Labels | Orpheo, Saef, Belter, BMG, Horus, Vamm |
| Spouse | Ana Marx Schiffer (1959) |
| Website | manoloescobar |
Manuel García Escobar (October 19, 1931; Las Norias de Daza, El Ejido, Almería), better known as Manolo Escobar, is a Spanish singer of Andalusian couplet and of Spanish song. He is an actor and has performed in multiple musicals. Among his successes are The Porompompero, My car (1969), The miniskirt or And Eviva España, of the Belgian composer Leo Rozenstraten.
Biography
Manolo Escobar is the fifth one of ten children of Antonio García and Maria del Carmen Escobar, to whom Carmen dedicated the song Madrecita Maria del Carmen. His father left the rural familiar tradition to devote itself to the hotel and catering business and the culture. Then it knew a republican retired teacher, whom it gave cover in return for the fact that it was dealing with the formation of all his brothers, included the musical one. Manolo started by touching the lute. It touched the piano also in his first years. With 14 years it emigrated with his brothers to Barcelona, where it worked as apprentice of diverse trades. One initiated in the cajolement between Badalona (Barcelona) and the Chinese Barcelonian Neighborhood with the group Manolo Escobar and his guitars, in which also there were his brothers Salvador and Baldomero. Hereinafter, and with the success of the group, other one would be added to them of his brothers, Juan Gabriel. Both Juan Gabriel and Jose Maria, other one of the brothers García Escobar, will write little later songs in order that the group interprets them. In 1962 it jumped to the stardom with the songs of the teacher Solano, with his début in Madrid and Barcelona and the premiere of the movie rolled in Arches of the Border (Cadiz): Los Guerrilleros.
In the field sentimental, three months after meeting the German Anita Marx in the party room "Fiesta" of Platja d'Aro, married her in Cologne (Germany) without speaking to each other's language. Today spent more than 50 years of marriage and are parents to her adopted daughter Vanessa, to whom he dedicated the song My little flower.
Such was the success of the artist in his genre, even after 1965 (when the song went into a real decline) topped the number of record sales and was one of the few artists who show and company kept themselves during those hard days for Spanish Song.
In the early 90s he settled in his chalet in Benidorm (Alicante) who named it in honor of Porompompero the title track. More than twenty films, three of which are among the ten most viewed of the released in Spain and, above all, its nearly eighty albums, twenty-four of them gold record and a platinum cassette, supporting its crown. It should be added that the Belter label delivered 24 gold records to Manolo, but according to sales, should be more than 40. Her biggest selling album was "And live Spain", which sold 6 million original copies (10 million in subsequent official reissues). It was the biggest selling album in the music history of Spain from 1973 to 1992.
Discography
- Espigas y amapolas
- El ángel de la guarda
- Aquel hijo
- Canciones de sus películas
- Mi carro
- Sevillanas de Oro
- Brindis
- Grandes Éxitos (1971)
- Entre dos amores
- Me has hecho perder el juicio
- Y viva Espania
- ¡Ay, caridad!
- Cada lágrima tuya
- Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
- Madrecita Maria del Carmen
- Por los caminos de España
- Eva que hace ese hombre en tu cama
- Qué guapa estás
- La mujer es un buen negocio
- Niña Bonita
- Calor
- Mis mejores canciones
- Selección Antológica del cancionero Español
- Préstemela esta noche
- Donde hay patrón
- Labrador
- Alejandra Mon Amour
- Mi pequeña flor
- Amores
- Manolo, siempre Manolo
- Mi pequeña flor, Vanessa (Especial Rack)
- Donde estará mi niño
- Los grandes pasodobles cantados
- Papá, te quiero mucho
- Coraje
- Sevilla casi ná
- Miel de Amores
- Vive la vida
- Suspiros de Manacor
- 30 aniversario
- Por pasodobles, por sevillanas
- Rumba pa ti
- Qué bonita eres
- Tango tango
- Tiempo al tiempo
- Con mi acento
- Aromas de hierbas dulces (tunel)
- Contemporáneo
- De puerto en puerto y tiro porqué me tocat
- Manolo Escobar, 20 años de éxitos
Filmography
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Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1963 | Los Guerrilleros | ||
| 1965 | Mi canción es para ti | Manolo de Lorca/Curro Lucena | |
| 1966 | El padre Manolo | Padre Manolo Ramírez | |
| 1966 | Un beso en el puerto | ||
| 1967 | Pero, ¿En qué país vivimos? | Antonio Torres | |
| 1968 | Relaciones casi públicas | ||
| 1969 | Juicio de faldas | ||
| 1970 | En un lugar de la Manga | ||
| 1971 | Me debes un muerto | ||
| 1972 | Entre dos amores | Gabriel Rivera | |
| 1973 | Me has hecho perder el juicio | ||
| 1974 | Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella | ||
| 1975 | Eva, ¿qué hace ese hombre en tu cama? | ||
| 1976 | La mujer es un buen negocio | ||
| 1977 | Préstamela esta noche | ||
| 1978 | Donde hay patrón... | Manolo | |
| 1979 | Alejandra mon amour | Manolo Sandoval | Known as Operación Comando in South America. |
| 1980 | ¿Dónde está mi niño? | Manolo Andújar | |
| 1981 | Todo es posible en Granada | Remake of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia's 1974 film. |
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