Ramón became ill with lung tuberculosis, a disease that took him to his grave, and since he was no longer able to sing at the cafés and private parties, he set up a kind of “doctor’s practice” for cantaores. Young cantaores would go to Ramón’s house on Palomas street (the same street where Cuervo Sanluqueño y Frijones de Jerez lived) to learn how to sing properly. Although Ramón was born in Triana, he grew up outside that neighborhood and his cante was on par with other celebrated cantaores of Seville such as Antonio Silva El Portugués, Fernando el de Triana and Rafael Pareja, who also advocated the formal teaching of cante. Ramón was an institution of Sevillan cante, a teacher, advocating for schools of cante at a time when only schools of guitar and baile existed. We know that when Chacón arrived in Seville in 1885, when he was only 17 years old, he contacted Ramón to learn about the old styles of Triana’s cante, which, oddly, he seldom performed later on. Ramón Rodríguez Vargas, cantaor also known as Ramón de Trianaand Ramón el Ollero, born in Triana in 1854 and died in La Feria neighborhood of Seville in 1905, was famous not only for his wonderful singing of soleares alfareras, seguiriyas and malagueñas, but also for his extensive knowledge about cante jondo.
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