Given the question: What key details about el fary can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: jose luis cantero rada -lrb- august 20 , 1937 -- june 19 , 2007 -rrb- , known professionally as el fary , was a spanish singer and actor . the youngest of six children , jose luis cantero was born in madrid , close to a famous bullring . as a boy he would play truant from school , preferring to spend time partying with gypsies imitating his idol , the traditional '' copla '' singer rafael farina . it was from farina that cantero adopted his stage name of '' el fary '' . resolute that his shortness would not stand in the way of success he was determined that his dream of following in his idol 's footsteps would one day come true . it was during the military service -lrb- late 1950s -rrb- that he would finally learn to read and write . before hitting the big time el fary worked hard as a gardener and a taxi driver in order to make the money to record his first songs . as a taxi driver , he claimed to have driven the american actress ava gardner around madrid . once he had recorded and pressed these songs - rumour has it - he sold them to the public himself from a stall in the '' rastro '' -lrb- madrid 's weekly street market -rrb- . at this time he also took part in singing contests on the radio and performed at local fiestas . only when he was in his early thirties did el fary start to make money as a singer when he was called to stand in for pepe blanco at a show in pozoblanco , cordoba , andalusia . later , the legendary antonio molina hired him for a two-month tour . by the 1970s the copla had fallen from favour with the spanish record-buying public , but this did not dampen el fary 's enthusiasm and by the end of the decade he was recording poppier songs such as gypsy rumbas that found a home in the spanish hit parade .
The answer is:
- birth name is jose luis cantero rada- origin is madrid , spain- death date is 19 june 2007- genre is singer , actor- birth date is august 20 , 1937- name is el fary- image size is 170px- background is solo_singer- label is ariola records