Francisco Rodríguez Muñoz (b. Andújar, Jaén Province, 1948), known as Curro Savoy or Kurt Savoy, is a Spanish musician specialised in whistling who lives currently in France since 1981.[1]
He was born in 1948, his mother worked selling candies, and his father was a construction worker.[1] He started his professional career in 1959 in Madrid when Tico Medina and Yale presented him in a TV show. He later recorded a record with Saef Cetra and took part in several radio programmes.
He worked in western films in more than a hundred films such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, and Once Upon a Time in the West, between others, including a film with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. He became the president of an international society of whistlers, and he founded another one, Siffleurs du Monde.[1]
He got married in 1972 with the bullfighter Clarita Montes, with whom he met in Casa de Campo and they had two children, Patricia and David.[1]
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edit- ^ a b c d Amelia, Víctor M. (25 April 2012). ""Yo vivo del aire"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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