Antonio Carbonell Muñoz is a Spanish

Spain

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 of romani heritage, known for his participation in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

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He belongs to a family involved in flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 music: he's the son of singer of "cante

Cante flamenco

The cante flamenco is one of the three main components of flamenco, along with toque and baile...

" Montoyita, and he's cousin to the members of the popular flamenco-pop band Ketama

Ketama

Ketama are a Spanish flamenco group in the fusion flamenco style. The leaders of what has been called New Flamenco, they brought a style that was somewhere between flamenco and pop salsa onto the musical scene that drew as much criticism as praise, but which has won over the young public and has...

. He has collaborated with important flamenco artists such as Enrique Morente

Enrique Morente

Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, was a flamenco singer and a controversial figure within the world of contemporary flamenco...

 and Manolo Sanlúcar

Manolo Sanlúcar

Manolo Sanlúcar is a flamenco composer and guitarist born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1945. He is considered one of the most important Spanish composers of present times, and together with Paco de Lucía, Serranito, and Vicente Amigo, one of the main figures in the evolution of the flamenco...

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His first album, "Ilusiones", had a modest reception. Later, when he was internally chosen by TVE

Televisión Española

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 as the Spanish representative for the 41st Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1996

The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 18 May 1996 in Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway. The presenters were Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket. Harket, lead singer of a-ha, opened the show with a performance of his single "Heaven's Not For Saints". Eimear...

, he published his second album, "¡Ay, Qué Deseo!". With the homonym song, he got a rather average result at the contest (20th out of 23 countries).

Apart from his two solo albums, he has contributed to a number of flamenco compilation albums: "Cante Gitano", "Directo Desde Casa Patas", "Esencias Flamencas" and "Lo Mejor Que Tengo".