Ricardo baliardo manitas de plata
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Manitas did not perform solo. Accompanied by his cousin Jose Reyes on vocals and palmas (the rhythmic clapping that is flamenco’s core percussion) and his son Manero Balliardo (guitar, palmas) he became a hugely popular concert attraction and, as the ’60s progressed, began selling hundreds of thousands of albums. The likes of John Steinbeck and Marlon Brando praised Manitas and the media portrayed him as something of a noble savage – the uneducated gypsy “genius” who instinctively played long, improvised flamenco guitar pieces and cared little for money or society. At least that was how he was portrayed: another Manitas album I own finds him standing with his guitar in front of an old wooded caravan, seemingly ready to hit the road in a traditional style.
Manitas may have had little interest in conforming to polite society – it’s believed he fathered dozens of children – but he loved the money that came his way. Born in , his father was a horse trader who sent his son out to beg an
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Manitas de Plata
Spanish flamenco guitarist (–)
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| Birth name | Ricardo Baliardo |
| Born | ()7 August Sète, France |
| Died | 5 November () (aged&#;93) Montpellier, France |
| Genres | Flamenco |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Guitar |
Musical artist
Ricardo Baliardo (7 August – 5 November ), better known as Manitas de Plata ("little hands of silver"), was a French[1]flamenco guitarist of Catalan Gitano descent, born in southern France.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Baliardo was born in a gypsy caravan in Sète, southern France.[2]
Nicknamed Manitas de Plata ("little hands of silver" in Spanish), he agreed to play in public only ten years after the death of Romani-Belgian jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt, in [3]
Baliardo attained fame in the United States after a photography exhibition in New York, organized by his friend Lucien Clergue. He had recorded his first official
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Manitas de Plata: Flamenco guitarist known as 'the rage of the Riviera' whose devoted following included Bardot and Dali
Manitas de Plata was one of the world’s most renowned flamenco guitarists, who sold almost million records and whose charismatic scen presence helped him acquire a devoted following that included Charlie Chaplin and Brigitte Bardot.
De Plata, whose real name was Ricardo Baliardo, was part of an acclaimed musical family in the Roma tradition of southern France and Spain.
For many years, he did not perform before audiences outside his native culture. When he finally stepped into the spotlight, he adopted the scen name of Manitas dem Plata: Little Hands of Silver. In the early s he became known as the “rage of the Riviera”, where his high-profile admirers included Brigitte Bardot, jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso – who once drew figures of matadors and a bull on dem Plata’s gitarr and declared, “That man is of greater worth than inom am!”
In dem Plata performed onstage