Juan Manuel Montilla Macarrón (born 1 November 1979), better known as El Langui, is a Spanish rapper and actor. He was a member of musical trio La Excepción.
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| Born | Juan Manuel Montilla Macarrón 1 November 1979 Madrid, Spain |
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Life and career edit
Juan Manuel Montilla Macarrón was born in Madrid on 1 November 1979 and was raised in Pan Bendito, a southern area of Madrid.[1][2] Due to lack of oxygen during childbirth, he suffers from cerebral palsy, which caused him a motor disorder of spasticity.[3][4]
Together with Gitano Antón and Ladako Style, El Langui founded the hip-hop trio La Excepción.[5] La Excepción won Best Spanish Act at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards.[6]
He made his feature film acting debut in The One-Handed Trick (2008) portraying Cuajo, a young man with palsy who fights for his dream of setting up a film studio.[7] He won a Goya Award for Best New Actor and a Goya Award for Best Original Song for his work in the film.[8] He has since featured in films such as Que baje Dios y lo vea, La cripta, el último secreto, or La familia Benetón and series such as Cuerpo de élite and 30 Coins.[9]
His solo musical career beyond La Excepción includes the release of two albums: Hola (2015)[10] and Espasticidad (2022).[11]
References edit
- ^ "El Langui, en Por el Principio". Cadena SER. 15 November 2020.
- ^ "'El Langui' departirá en la Casa Colón sobre el bullyng". Huelva24. Grupo Vocento. 6 February 2020.
- ^ García, M. (31 December 2018). "El vacile de El Langui a Bertín Osborne: "Me quedé así por resbalarme con un güito"". Diario de Mallorca. Prensa Ibérica.
- ^ "El Langui habla abiertamente de la espasticidad, el trastorno motor que padece: "Provoca dolores, deformaciones..."". La Sexta. 11 December 2022.
- ^ Fuente, Ulises (13 December 2015). "«El Langui»: «El rap me hizo sentir que era útil»". La Razón.
- ^ "MTV Europe premia el hip-hop de La Excepción". El Periódico de Aragón. 3 November 2016.
- ^ Fernández, Imma (18 March 2018). "El rapero El Langui protagoniza una película con gente de la calle". El Periódico de Catalunya. Prensa Ibérica.
- ^ Elena, Alberto; Martín Morán, Ana (2016). "Transnational Contours and Representation Models in Recent Films About Immigration in Spain". In Oliete-Aldea, Elena; Oria, Beatriz; Tarancón, Juan A. (eds.). Global Genres, Local Films The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-5013-0298-5.
- ^ Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (18 March 2024). "Los estrenos del 22 de marzo'. La familia Benetón'. Tierno cascarrabias". Aisge.
- ^ Cortés, Elena (20 November 2015). "El Langui debuta en solitario con su disco "más ambicioso", "Hola"". Deia.
- ^ "El Langui: "No hay que tener parálisis cerebral para notar rígida a la gente"". La Nueva España. 1 December 2022.