Peret
Born: 1935-03-24 in Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Died: 2014-08-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- El ventilador. Una història de rumba as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba as Self - Singer (archive footage)
2018
- Petitet as Himself (archive footage)
2016
- Peret i l’origen de la rumba catalana as Himself
- Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta as Self
2013
- Cachitos de hierro y cromo as Self (archive footage)
- ¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
2010
- El convidat as Self
2001
- Killer Housewives as Cura
1973
- ¡Qué cosas tiene el amor! as Peret / Antonio
1971
- A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa as Pedro
- Si Fulano fuese Mengano as Raúl Arévalo / Miguel García
1970
- El mesón del gitano as Peret
1969
- El taxi de los conflictos as El bígamo
- Amor a todo gas as Self
1968
- Un día después de agosto as Guitarist
1963
- Los Tarantos as Guitarist
1956
- Eurovision Song Contest as Self - Contestant