Peret

Known for ActingBorn 1935-03-24Died 2014-08-27Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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 religious activities. After leaving the church in 1991, he resumed his music activity and recorded new albums. In 1992, he sang at the Barcelona Olympic Games during the closing ceremonies. Peret died in Barcelona in 2014 from lung cancer, aged 79.Read more

Movies & web series

Un día después de agosto

Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba

Peret i l’origen de la rumba catalana

El taxi de los conflictos

Cachitos de hierro y cromo

El mesón del gitano

Eurovision Song Contest

¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!

Si Fulano fuese Mengano

Killer Housewives

Los Tarantos

Petitet

A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa

Amor a todo gas

El ventilador. Una història de rumba

Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta

¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret

El convidat