Jose Luis Cantero | Spanish singer, 69

Singer Jose Luis Cantero, 69, known as El Fary, one of Spain's best-known singers of the flamenco-style genre known as Spanish song, died Tuesday at home after suffering for more than a year from lung cancer, according to the Culture Ministry in Madrid.

Mr. Cantero was a fervent admirer of traditional Spanish singers, especially Rafael Farina. He was given his stage name because of the similarity of his high-pitched wailing form of singing to that of Farina.

He reached the height of his fame in the 1980s with his hit song "El Toro Guapo" ("The Handsome Bull"). Mr. Cantero came back into the spotlight in recent years when director Santiago Segura used one of his songs in his 1998 film Torrente - The Dumb Arm of the Law, and the song and the movie became immensely popular. - AP