
El Lebrijano (Juan Peña Fernández, Lebrija, Sevilla 1941 – 2016)
Pedro Peňa (Pedro Peña Fernández, Lebrija Sevilla, 1939)
Pedro Bacán (Pedro Peña Peña, Lebrija, Sevilla 1951 – Utrera, Sevilla 1997)
In the video we can see and hear one of the many times Lebrijano performed live his 'galleys', here in a somewhat different version.
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Catholic Monarchs issued a pragmatic sanction on the gypsies (according to some scholars, a royal provision) in Madrid in 1499, which is usually acknowledged as the beginning of a bloody persecution. The persecution began to be effective when, because of the need of oarsmen to keep gallies operative in order to ensure the control of the Mediterranean waters, Charles V modified the 1499 punitive system in 1539 for all gypsies who were reluctant to settle. Sentence to rowing as forced labour was, until its abolition in 1748, the real penitentiary panacea in all the Hispanic kingdoms for more than two centuries.