Silverio Franconetti
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Although insulted by
some as the person that prostituted the dark legacy, inside
the family bosom of the people of Andalusia, the history
of flamenco could not be written without Silverio
Franconetti. As a child he fell in love with flamenco
listening to El Fillo in Morón de la Frontera, resulting
in him abandoning his job as a tailor and devoting his life
to the promotion of flamenco. After a strange eight-year
gap in South America, he then traveled through the Spanish
stages showing what he had learned in the fraguas (taverns)
until finally he became the programmer from his own cafe
in Seville. This was one more site for the development of
singing contests involving Siverio Franconetti, Tomás
el Nitri and Juan Breva.
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