The commotion is an art, it's essential, but in the society we live in, where gratuitous flattery abounds, whoever doesn't know how to sing, play, or dance...
What would become of the flamenco Without those silences? After the cascade of sounds that unfold when interpreting this music and its dance, they become essential, as a necessary contrast throughout...
It was in Seville that I first found myself alone, facing a sea of books, articles, and writings about the shared history of Spain and Latin America. It was a...
In less time than it takes a crazy priest to cross himself, the touristsjondoThey will take over and take the reins of the deep thing and, looking at us, they will say: if you don't pull the cart, we will...
Who would have thought that a strictly musical parameter could so accurately and beautifully symbolize and summarize the process that gave rise to a musical genre like the flamenco. Speak...
When a flamenco guitar reigns in a home, it passes from parents to children quite naturally. But the main shortcut, more than blood and land, lies in...
The Spanish government has announced the awarding of the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise to José Antonio Carmona, known as Pepe Habichuela, highlighting...
A lyric doesn't necessarily have to correspond to a specific melody. In fact, a melody can accommodate an infinite number of lyrics, just as a lyric can fit into multiple musical pieces.
Luis was a true expert on flamenco. He knew all the canteIt's true. I repeated two versions of the Canario's malagueña, highlighting the subtle differences between them...
The line separating these two worlds, naturalness and artifice, is so thin that they become complementary. It takes artistry to be natural.