Peret
Birthday
1935/03/24
Day of death
2014/08/27 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Also know 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 rel...Read more
Acting
(1969) Amor a todo gas
as Self
(1971) Si Fulano fuese Mengano
as Raúl Arévalo / Miguel García
(1971) A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa
as Pedro
(1973) ¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!
as Peret / Antonio
(1970) El mesón del gitano
as Peret
(2001) Killer Housewives
as Cura
(2016) Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta
as ---
(2023) El ventilador. Una història de rumba
as Self (archive footage)
(2016) Peret i l’origen de la rumba catalana
as Himself
(2018) Petitet
as Himself (archive footage)
(1968) Un día después de agosto
as Guitarist
(2019) Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
(1969) El taxi de los conflictos
as El bígamo
(2013) ¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
as ---
(2013) Cachitos de hierro y cromo
as Self (archive footage)