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Toribio Alonso de Salazar (died 5 September 1526) was a Spanish navigator of Castilian origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on 21 August 1526. Born in Burgos , de Salazar was part of the Fray García Jofre de Loaísa 's expedition from Spain to the Spice Islands in 1525, the second in history to cross the ...
"Matador" or "El matador" (Spanish for "Killer") is a song written by Flavio Cianciarulo, bass player of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a rock band from Argentina. It was first released in their 1993 album Vasos Vacíos and it is considered their signature song since the song topped the charts all across Hispanic America.
The song is available in two languages: Spanish [5] and French. [6] El Cordobés' story was also the basis for the musical Matador (1987) by Mike Leander and Eddie Seago. Poet Mike O'Connor included "Canción del Cordobés", about the matador's breakout performances in Mexico City in 1964, in his poetry volume When the Tiger Weeps, (2005).
The South Matadero, Buenos Aires (water colour by Emeric Essex Vidal, 1820).The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851).
A bullfighter (or matador) is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero (Spanish:) or toureiro (Portuguese: [toˈɾɐjɾu]), both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the performers in the activity of bullfighting as practised in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries influenced ...
Santiago Martín Sánchez (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo maɾˈtin ˈsantʃeθ]; born 18 July 1938), known as El Viti (Spanish: [el ˈβiti]), is a retired Spanish bullfighter.He holds the record for the greatest number of times that any bullfighter has been borne on shoulders out through the Great Gate at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid (the greatest honour in the bullfighting world), namely ...
This new trend and his growing popularity lead him to adopt a stage name, first as 'El Más Tigre', then 'El Tigraso' and finally 'El Taiger'. [3] Some of his most popular songs are La Historia and Marca Mandarina. Among his songs are El Ignorante, El Papelito, El Punto , El Sano and Habla Matador, where he used Cuban-rooted urban sound. [2]
While the matador fights the bull with a cloak, the picadors use a lance while on horseback to test the bull and prepare him for the final performance. Rodrigo Rufo del Castillo Monje (mozo de espadas, or sword page) The mozo de espadas is the matador’s assistant who helps him get dressed and hands him the cape and sword during the fight.