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Rumba and ‘gypsy
rock’
Jeros, of Los
Chichos
In 1974 Los Chorbos record the album ‘Sonido Cañorroto’,
a title which stood as the trademark of a new current driven
by producer José Luis de Carlos. The so-called ‘gypsy
rock’ included groups such as the duo Las Grecas, El
Luis (re-released in a volume since 1974) and Manzanita,
who left Los Chorbos and had a successful solo career. The
urban rumba went further. Groups like Los Chichos reflected
the harsh reality of slums giving way to economic development,
where a generation of emigrants' children lived who sang about
love, death, drugs and prison. They ended up selling fifteen
million records. Of the same movement, at least, are Los Chunguitos,
Los Amaya and Peret. The phenomenon also touched the bowels
of the cante triangle. Out of Utrera came Bambino
to shake up the copla through bulerías, to reinterpret
boleros and go with the flow of the rumba with modern arrangements.
A really extreme phenomenon which even today affects, and
very much so, artists like Manuel de Angustias and Falete.
The female equivalent of Chamona's son was María Jiménez,
an icon of the arrival of freedoms, who still reinvents herself
today.
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