Cordoba guitarist Juan Muñoz Expósito, The tomatohe has died this Tuesday, May 27 in Córdoba at age 81. The musician, part of one of the flamenco dynasties with more tradition of Córdoba, was also the father of The ketchup (Lola and Lucia battery), the popular group of sisters, interpreters of Asheethat with his name they wink at the patriarch.
Muñoz was born in Montalbán (Córdoba) in 1944. He was the son of guitarist and truck driver, Rafael Muñoz Méndez’s nephew The Cordoba – Pepe Marchena or Curro de Utrera, and father, and father, in addition to the singers, of also guitarists Juan Manuel Muñoz, José Manuel Muñoz (who died eleven years ago at 40) and Javier, who took his artistic name from him.
He started with the guitar late, with more than 20 years, but stopped his artistic career – which combined with a job as a truck driver – until just over a decade ago, after the death of his son José Manuel. Since then he run a cafeteria in his city.
Accompanied as tocaor Rafael Ordonez Oa phosphorite, but was never very close to the reflectors and was mostly recognized for his work as a guitarist teacher, among which Vicente Amigen, Luis Medina or Manuel Silveria.