Manzanita was first played on NTS on 29 June 2020. Songs played include Por Tu Ausencia.

There have been multiple artists that recorded under the name Mananita.

Real name: José Manuel Ortega Heredia. Born in 1956 in Madrid, died in 2004 in Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga. Alongside Manuel Montoya (from Lole y Manuel), Paco de Lucía and a few others, Manzanita was one of the first to merge, to make progress towards developing new flamenco. Since his first record as a solo artist ("Poco ruido y mucho duende". 1978), Manzanita has been blending flamenco with rumba or pop. In the last record ("Gitano Cubano"), he…