Aurelio Sellés
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Aurelio Sellés Nondedeu was born at number 3 of calle Santa María in Cádiz on the 4th of November 1887 and died in the neighbourhood of Santa María on the 19th of September 1974. At first he wanted to be a bullfighter and even became a an apprentice bullfighter, but fear separated him from the bullrings and return him completely to song.
At twenty years of age he began to frequent the festivals of Cádiz along with Manuel Torre and Chacón However the source from which Aurelio fed was his fellow countryman Enrique el Mellizo, a central figure of song from Cadiz. His first albums where recorded in 1929 for Polydor with the accompaniment of Ramón Montoyas´ guitar.
It was then that he performed 'seguiriyas´, 'soleares´, 'malagueñas´, 'tientos´, 'alegrías´, 'bulerías´, 'granaínas´ and 'fandangos´. His gift began to have so much force in Cádiz, where he was always revered, that José María Pemán paid tribute to him in 1956 and in 1964 a street was named after him in La Tacita.
