Agujetas was born a Gipsy, son of a blacksmith, and learned very early from his father - also a great singer - the art of Flamenco singing. He practiced what was going to become a unique voice by punctuating his singing with regular hammer hits on the anvil. Now a leading character of Flamenco, Agujetas distinguish himself by a raspy but less tragic approach to singing than his predecessors. A real poet, you can hear an ancestral descent in his stirring cries. Nevertheless, his dark singing is a contemporary one, tense and thorny, sharp and painful, dry and burning. Freer than ever, in full possession of his art, Agujetas still lives close to Jerez. He still has the smithy handed down by his father where he keeps on practicing singing just like in the early days, hammering the anvil