José Carreras debuted at age 11 as Trujamán in "El retablo de Maese Pedro", which was composed by the man whose image appeared on 100-pesetas Spanish banknote from what year?
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José Carreras Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the operatic stage at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's "El retablo de Maese Pedro" and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles, performed in the world's leading opera houses and in numerous recordings. He gained fame with a wider audience as one of the Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in a series of mass concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003. Carreras is also known for his humanitarian work as the president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation ("La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia"), which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.
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Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (] , 23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer. Along with Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. His image was on Spain's 1970 100-pesetas banknote.
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La Calavera Catrina La Calavera Catrina ('Dapper Skeleton', 'Elegant Skull') is a 1910–1913 zinc etching by famous Mexican printmaker, cartoon illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The image depicts a female skeleton dressed only in a hat befitting the upper class outfit of a European of her time. Her "chapeau en attende" is related to European styles of the early 20th century. She is offered as a satirical portrait of those Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the pre-revolution era. She, in particular, has become an icon of the Mexican Día de los muertos, or Day of the Dead.
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Memo Morales Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo (6 April 1937 – 1 January 2017) was a Venezuelan singer. Better known as Memo Morales, he was also dubbed as "El Gitano Maracucho".
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Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio (February 2, 1895 – September 15, 1954) was a Spanish born musician and score composer who worked in the Cinema of Argentina between 1936 and his death in 1954. A professional score composer hired by the film industry he composed the soundtracks to some 75 films and also a number of his earlier compositions were used in films some 6 years after his death. He composed the music to films such as Almafuerte in 1949.
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José Nieto (actor) José Nieto (3 May 1902 – 10 August 1982) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1925 to 1983.
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Pedro Sandoval Pedro José Sandoval (born 12 July 1966) is a Venezuelan abstract neo-expressionist artist. Pedro Sandoval has paintings exhibited at the museum Adolfo Suarez at Avila, Spain, the Contemporary museum Sofia Imber at Caracas, Venezuela and many others. Also, his works are present in collections, as the Kennedy family, the White House collection and the collection of the Vatican Museum, among others.
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José de Nebra José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco (January 6, 1702 – July 11, 1768) was a Spanish composer.
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Jaime Sabartés Jaime Sabartés Gual (Catalan: "Jaume Sabartés i Gual" ), born Barcelona 10 June 1881 died Paris 12 February 1968, was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer. He was a close personal friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator.
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José María López Lledín José María López Lledín (died 11 July 1985), usually known as El Caballero de París (roughly, the "gentleman of Paris"), was a mentally ill resident of Havana, Cuba. He was a patient of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana, and was diagnosed as suffering from confabulatory paraphrenia. He wandered the streets of Havana and became well-known and popular. He is portrayed in a bronze statue by José Villa Soberón.
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Philippine one hundred peso note The Philippine one hundred-peso note (Filipino: "Sandaang Piso") (₱100) is a denomination of Philippine currency. Philippine president Manuel Roxas is currently featured on the front side of the bill, while the Mayon Volcano and the whale shark (locally known as "butanding") are featured on the reverse side.
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Rafael Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (] ; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed "El Jefe" (] , "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican politician and soldier, who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. His 31 years in power, to Dominicans known as the Trujillo Era (Spanish: "El Trujillato" ), are considered one of the bloodiest eras ever in the Americas, as well as a time of a personality cult, when monuments to Trujillo were in abundance. Rafael Trujillo was responsible for many deaths including between 547 and 12,166 in the Parsley massacre.
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Mirla Castellanos Mirla Castellanos, is a noted Venezuelan singer with a career spanning over 40 years. Often referred to as "La Primerísima", she started her career as a singer with the band "Cuarteto Los Naipes" in the 1960s before taking up a solo career. Moving to Europe in the late 1960s, she recorded music by composers such as Domenico Modugno, with whom she later performed a duet of the song "Meraviglioso" during the preliminary of the 1968 Festival San Remo; she didn’t make the cut for the finals . In 1969, Castellanos won the Benidorm International Song Festival with a composition by Manuel Alejandro. After returning to South America in 1970, she took second place in the Latin American Song Festival. With the support of shows such as Sábado Sensacional and her own live show "Primerísima," Castellanos furthered her reputation in the 1970s and 1980s, making her first appearance in New York at the Chateau Madrid in 1976.
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Juan Montón y Mallén Juan Montón y Mallén (ca. 1730Segovia, December 1781) was a Spanish composer and "maestro de capilla" of Segovia Cathedral. He was succeeded by Pedro Aranaz y Vides.
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Julián Carrillo Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed "The Thirteenth Sound" (Sonido 13).
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José García Román José García Román (born 1945) is a Spanish symphonic composer. He is the author of more than one hundred works, including "La resurrección de don Quijote", "El bosque de Diana" (with libretto by Antonio Muñoz Molina), "Ruinas de Oradour Sur Glane", and "Epur si muoeve o Paseo de los Tristes".
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Os Pinos Os Pinos (] , "The Pines") is the official anthem of Galicia, in Spain. The lyrics were written by Eduardo Pondal (the two first parts of his poem "Queixumes dos pinos", "Lamentations of the Pines") and the music by Pascual Veiga. It was composed in Havana, Cuba, where it was performed for the first time in 1907. It was officially adopted by the Galician authorities in 1977.
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Pablo Bruna Pablo Bruna (22 June 1611 – 27 June 1679) was a Spanish composer and organist notable for his blindness (suffered after a childhood bout of smallpox), which resulted in his being known as "El ciego de Daroca" ("the blind man of Daroca"). It is not known how Bruna received his musical training, but in 1631 he was appointed organist of the collegiate church of St. María in his hometown of Daroca, later rising to choirmaster in 1674. He remained there until his death in 1679.
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Agustín Lara Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino (] ; October 30, 1897– November 6, 1970), known as Agustín Lara was a Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros. He is recognized as one of the most popular songwriters of his era. His work was widely appreciated not only in Mexico but also in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain. After his death, he has also been recognized in the United States, Italy and Japan.
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Asensio Julià Asensio Julià i Alvarracín, nicknamed El Pescadoret, the Little Fisherman (c.1759/60, Valencia - 22 February or 25 October 1832, Madrid) was a Spanish painter and engraver who was closely associated with Francisco de Goya.
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Camarón de la Isla José Monge Cruz (5 December 1950 – 2 July 1992), better known by his stage name Camarón de la Isla (Spanish: "Shrimp of the Island" ), was a Spanish flamenco singer. Considered one of the all-time greatest flamenco singers, he was noted for his collaborations with Paco de Lucia and Tomatito, and the three of them were of major importance to the revival of flamenco in the second half of the 20th century.
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Pepe Sánchez (trova) Pepe Sánchez, born José Sánchez (Santiago de Cuba, 19 March 1856 – 3 January 1918), was a Cuban musician, singer and composer. He is known as the father of the "trova" style and the creator of the Cuban bolero.