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Manuel Morao 'Moraíto' - origin of name?
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NormanKliman
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 RE: Manuel Morao 'Moraíto' - origin... (in reply to Escribano)
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Manuel Moreno Jiménez, the man who accompanied Terremoto padre, Paquera, María Vargas and La Perla on those recordings, inherited the artistic name of his father, who was a party (non-professional) singer. MMJ was called Moraíto for a period of his life during which his brother Juan was called "Moraíto chico". Later, the brothers were known as Manuel and Juan Morao. Juan's son, Manuel Moreno Junquera, was the Moraíto who accompanied Manuel Agujetas in that film.
"Moratón" is used more often than "morado" to refer to a dark patch on the skin, like a bruise. Morado as a color obviously comes from this context (or viceversa).
The expression "ponerse morado" means to have one's fill of something good, like a big meal or whatever.
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Maybe Morao was always so morao of taking whatever that they called him Morao.
I doubt it, but maybe alcohol and certainly not drugs, which is what you're implying.
Years ago, somebody on this forum heard that Tomatito was referred to as "the half-kilo guitarist" and assumed that it referred to drugs, which was really stupid because kilo used to mean a million pesetas (obviously, then, he was getting paid half a million to perform).
I've pointed out before that the Real Academia Española has a great online dictionary:
http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=morado
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Date Sep. 8 2012 7:07:10
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Ricardo
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RE: Manuel Morao 'Moraíto' - origin... (in reply to NormanKliman)
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inherited the artistic name of his father, who was a party (non-professional) singer.
Whose name was, according to Rito book, Manuel de Soto Moreno. Morao, and was also a guitarist in addition to singer.
Manuel Moreno MMJ was moraito later Morao, as Norman stated.
his son MANUEL was also featured in Rito and they called HIM Moraito at the time too, but since he didn't go pro I guess his cousin MANUEL adapted the name.
Rest as norman stated Juan Bro was chico (Melchor de Marchena's brother, also guitarist, was called "Chico Melchor" which I thought was funny too) son MANUEL MORENO JUNQUERA (so many manuels) I first read about as "Moraito Chico". He is the famous beloved one, but later they just call him Morao too, like tio and abuelo. And now Diego DEL morao, I have already heard some jaleos refer to HIM simply as "Morao" too. So it goes with these recycled nick names.
In that documentary MMJ was interviewed and introduced each grandson/grandnephew in his clan, and notice he wore a puple pañuelo. I assumed at that moment that perhaps HIS father got the nick name from wearing such a thing or other purple clothing.
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Date Sep. 9 2012 0:29:22
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srshea
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RE: Manuel Morao 'Moraíto' - origin... (in reply to Ricardo)
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...notice he wore a puple pañuelo...
Alright, don’t know if this only muddies the water further or adds more clarity, but I’m going through some Fontana reissues, and Morao and his brother are credited with a number of their various artistic names (I think these CD reissues use the original label credits verbatim.) One some, but not all of the CDs, Morao circa ‘57-’63 with Paquera, Terremoto, Vargas, etc. is credited as ‘Manuel Moreno Penella.’ So, maybe Penella is a corruption of panuelo, providing yet another nickname for this dude? The Penella name hasn’t been brought up on the Foro before so far as I can tell, (unless someone spelled it differently.)
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Date Sep. 10 2012 16:11:41
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srshea
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RE: Manuel Morao 'Moraíto' - origin... (in reply to Ricardo)
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About "Panella"...odd, maybe mix up with Manuel fernandez Molina "Parrilla", at least for Paquera.
Oh, huh, well I knew Parrilla got a real early start at 12 or 13, but I figured that was just as a kid playing in tablaos. Would he have been recording with those top artists in the late fifties? Yikes.
I’m at work now so I can’t check the CDs again, but the Penella name was on three or four of them. I threw one on real quick when I made that earlier post, and what I heard sounded like Morao, but it also sounded just kinda generically Jerez for that time period, and maybe a bit with a lighter touch that I associate with Parrilla, rather than the freight-train heaviness of Morao.
Unless the mystery gets solved sooner, I’ll take a closer look at the CDs and see if I can definitely identify the tocaor.
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