We offer you this ninth installment of Levantine Chronicles, in which we will bring the figure of the great singer closer to the audience Manolo Romero (Linares, Jaén, 1950), who was a prominent interpreter of the cantes miners.
His greatest successes in the cante He achieved them in the Festival of Cante from the Mines of La Union, our protagonist being one of the most successful singers in the history of the Festival, where he won up to ten awards. Two of them are the Lámpara Minera, the highest award given by the Festival, which he won in the 1977 editions –ex aequo with Juan Jimenez The Macareno– and in 1978 he was already solo.
Manolo Romero, together with Pencho Cros y Encarnacion Fernández, were ambassadors of the Festival of Cante de las Minas whenever it needed to be presented anywhere in Spain. In 1985 the three singers recorded an album called The Union: Cante of the Mines, for the Hispavox house.
