At that time he adopted the artistic name of his maternal uncle, and father of the also artist Isabel Pantoja, Juan Pantoja Cortés who had formed a flamenco trio called Trío de los gaditanos with Florencio Ruiz Lara and Manuel Molina the Lacemaker and who in turn had taken the artistic name of his father Pipoño de Jerez, later known as the Chiquetete de Jerez because a neighbor of the town and native of Alicante began calling him xiquet (child).
In 1988 he launched Sevilla wsin tu amor, which contained one of his greatest successes: A la Puerta de Toledo.
After a retired period, in 2004 he published Como la marea baja, under the musical production of his son Fran Cortés.
This son, along with the eldest, Antonio, and a daughter, Rocío, are the three of them in their marriage with their first wife, bailaora Amparo Cazalla Mora.
[4] On 16 December 2018, Chiquetete died in Seville from a heart failure resulting from a hip operation he had undergone several days before.