Manolo Vazquez - Fearless matador with grace and gravity

Manuel Vázquez Garcés was born a Spanish bullfighter in the neighborhood of San Bernardo in Seville on August 21 1930 and died in Seville on August 14, 2005.

He was known by the nickname "The Socrates of San Bernardo" and "The Wizard of San Bernardo." Took the option on the Real Maestranza in Seville on October 6, 1951 before the bull of the herd Perdulario Domingo Ortega, acting as his godfather brother Pepe Luis Vazquez and witness Antonio Bienvenida.These swords will confirm the choice the next day in the Plaza de las Ventas bullring in Madrid on Sunday Ortega, receiving a severe fighting during the corner. He retired in 1968 after participating in their lives in over 300 runs. He reappeared 50 years with the April 19, 1981 in Seville bullring to Juan Pedro Domecq. That evening he gave an alternative to his nephew Pepe Luis, acting as a witness Curro Romero.Among the best of his artistic operations, which are held in the bullring of bullfighting in Mexico Distrito Federal in early 1954, which cut off a tail, of the Feria de San Isidro in the year 1957, when he cut the two ears of a bull to the herd and Cobaleda Corrida Corpus on June 18 1981 in the Maestranza in Seville, where he alternated with Curro Romero and Rafael de Paula, which had a sensational performance that allowed leave for the first time in his career by the Gate of the Prince of that place.Is permanently withdrawn from the bullrings on October 12 1983 in the plaza de toros de la Maestranza in Seville, having a hand in hand with Antoñete. That evening was a resounding success, cut four ears, one of a bull the herd of Juan Pedro Domecq, two other iron-González Sánchez Dalp and an animal Núñez Moreno de Guerra, left the arena for the second time in his life to shoulder through the Puerta del Príncipe.