It’s still incomplete, but let’s at least say this:

        El Pollito started life as John M. Lane. John was born in San Jose, California and became a folk singer as a teenager in the sixties. In 1966, at the age of 19, Johnny Lane heard that his hero Woody Guthrie was in a New York hospital. Concerned for the fate of his greatest musical influence to date, he took off for New York to find him. Once there, he befriended the ailing folk master and spent the better part of a year visiting and honoring him by singing Guthrie back to Guthrie.
        After Woody’s death in 1967, Johnny took off for Spain to study Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense. Upon graduation, and after a short stint as an English teacher, he took off to Granada to study his newest passion…flamenco. For many years Juan Callejuela (as he was then known) lived, studied and honed his serious art directly with notable gypsy flamencos back in the caves of Sacromonte. After a long period of being a serious flamenco John Lane was dubbed El Pollito (The Little Chicken). The name fitted both his boyish and Irish-blond good looks and so it stuck. Now embracing his moniker, while adding a touch of linguistic banter along with measured doses of physical humor, the flamenco personality we now know as El Pollito was hatched. This life is his art.
        During his 25+ years of being a flamenco, El Pollito has had the privilege to work with and socialize a veritable who’s who list of modern flamenco greats. In fact, El Pollito is one of very few foreigners to have been noted in the official book of flamenco.
        Now, after six years since they were originally recorded, El Pollito’s original studio recordings are being made available for the first time in his latest album, De California a Granada.