El Langui Explained

Birth Date:1 November 1979
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Birth Name:Juan Manuel Montilla Macarrón

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.

Life and career

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: El Langui, en Por el Principio. Cadena SER. 15 November 2020.
  2. Web site: 'El Langui' departirá en la Casa Colón sobre el bullyng. Huelva24. Grupo Vocento. 6 February 2020.
  3. Web site: Diario de Mallorca. El vacile de El Langui a Bertín Osborne: "Me quedé así por resbalarme con un güito". 31 December 2018. M.. García. Prensa Ibérica.
  4. Web site: El Langui habla abiertamente de la espasticidad, el trastorno motor que padece: "Provoca dolores, deformaciones...". La Sexta. 11 December 2022.
  5. Web site: «El Langui»: «El rap me hizo sentir que era útil». La Razón. 13 December 2015. Ulises. Fuente.
  6. Web site: MTV Europe premia el hip-hop de La Excepción. El Periódico de Aragón. 3 November 2016.
  7. Web site: El rapero El Langui protagoniza una película con gente de la calle. El Periódico de Catalunya. Prensa Ibérica. Imma. Fernández. 18 March 2018.
  8. Book: Elena, Alberto. 225. Global Genres, Local Films The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema. Ana. Martín Morán. Transnational Contours and Representation Models in Recent Films About Immigration in Spain. Elena. Oliete-Aldea. Beatriz. Oria. Juan A.. Tarancón. 2016. 978-1-5013-0298-5. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  9. Web site: Los estrenos del 22 de marzo'. La familia Benetón'. Tierno cascarrabias. Aisge. 18 March 2024. Alberto. Úbeda-Portugués.
  10. Web site: El Langui debuta en solitario con su disco "más ambicioso", "Hola". Deia. Elena. Cortés. 20 November 2015.
  11. Web site: El Langui: "No hay que tener parálisis cerebral para notar rígida a la gente". La Nueva España. 1 December 2022.

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