Peret
Also Known As: Pedro Pubill Calaf, Pere Pubill i Calaf
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Birthday: March 24, 1935
Deathday: August 27, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Amor a todo gas
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Si Fulano fuese Mengano
Overview: Raúl Arévalo and Miguel García seem like a drop of water to another, but there the similarity ends. Raul is a famous singer, womanizer, despotic, cruel and millionaire. Instead Michael is an honest worker, cheerful and loving who enjoys the simple things forward. Fate will know them and life will never be the same for either.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa
Overview: Pedro is a famous singer who fall in love with a psychiatrist girlfriend, he decides to attend to the doctor with the story that he does not like women. The psychiatric nurse helps him with the girl as she is in love with the doctor.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!
Overview: The Loinaz siblings live off petty theft in refined environments. When they find out that Peret is going to shoot a movie in Marbella, the whole family moves their headquarters to Marbella.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-04-02
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El mesón del gitano
Overview: The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-02-24
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Killer Housewives
Overview: In Madrid, Azu's husband Filipe is smug and boorish, but it's his money she slips to family members constantly in need of cash and that she uses to buy gifts for her lover, Pablo. Things start to fall apart when Pablo wants to leave her and when Filipe wants to evict Azu's cousin from a butcher shop he rents. Azu hatches a plan that relies on her sister, her cousin the butcher, and his mentally-challenged delivery man. When things start to go wrong, can Azu make them right?
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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El ventilador. Una història de rumba
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2023-06-24
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Peret i l’origen de la rumba catalana
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2016-03-28
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Petitet
Overview: Joan Ximénez el Petitet is a Catalan gypsy who pursues a dream. A former musician now —a percussionist, son of Ramón el Huesos who worked with the mythical singer Peret—, and affected by a rare chronic disease, he wants to accomplish the promise he made to his mother before she died: to celebrate a rumba concert on the stage of the Liceu, a great theater in Barcelona, along with a big symphony orchestra.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Un día después de agosto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-05
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Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba
Overview: An account of the personal and artistic life of the Spanish singer Peret (1935-2014), the artist who imaginatively mixed various musical styles, such as mambo, tanguillo and rock, to create the gypsy rumba. An epic adventure, from a humble neighborhood of Barcelona to the biggest stages of the world.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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El taxi de los conflictos
Overview: Musical. Thaddeus (Juanjo Menéndez) is a taxi driver who is about to experience a busy work day. Throughout the day you climb into his cab heteogéneos the more characters, which give rise to the most varied situations. When one of them left in the taxi leaves a baby, Thaddeus will have to find out who's not forget that at the end of the day has a date with a mysterious woman (Concha Velasco), apparently, have to tell you something very important.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
Overview: '¡Cuchíbiri cuchíbiri!' is the story of the Catalan rumba. Created by Catalan gypsies, this documentary is narrated by its very creator: Peret, who sold millions of records around the world. Stories about stardom, friendship and family, yet also about his disenchantment with the music industry. A man who took charge of his destiny with sheer determination and talent, and then simply walked away.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-01
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