Barely half capacity gave the singer from Huelva any warmth Jeromo Segura in the Peña The SilversmithGranada. It's not normal for this to happen, especially when a flamenco singer with a long career, even more knowledge and experience on stage, visits this venue. We should add that he has been a singer in... Eva Yerbabuena more than a decade, so his name and his cante in Granada, which should have attracted more partners and friends of this peña.
Jeromo is a very personal flamenco singer, firm in his approach, whether you like it or not, indifferent to trends, and with an added peculiarity: he is didactic. He is very much so, but overdoing it can turn into a detrimental discourse that diminishes the need to enjoy the performance. cante and the touch without further ado, simply letting yourself be carried away by the sound.
He was too didactic, to the point that the audience almost wanted to just finish each song, each style, to listen to it and see what new stylistic announcement he was going to make.
She was also a teacher because among cante y cante He told us about his flamenco life, his resume, his experiences with his teachers, which are numerous, but superfluous. What was supposed to be a recital of cante It was a kind of illustrated lecture of canteAnd biographical glimpses. Mind you, it's a virtue to know so much about canteWe're not going to deny him his merit, but an excess of virtue doesn't justify the consolation of wanting to take refuge in the right of cante more than the word.
We're used to artists announcing the canteThey know what they're going to do, but also each style within each canteI think it's excessive.
That said, I'm left with a reference he made to his teacher Orange from Triana And the one who accepts it without hesitation: "Nephew, if you sing like everyone else, they'll call you three times a year and you'll be broke. You have to try to be different, have a repertoire and do things differently."
"Jeromo Segura is capable of copying the canteHe draws them melodically, blurs them, and makes them his own, which makes him, at the very least, a very personal flamenco singer, something that the flamenco "He's short on cash."
In this, Jeromo is one of the best, because he is able to copy the canteHe draws them melodically, blurs them, and makes them his own, enough so that the listener knows their origin without being a limited copyist, which makes him, at the very least, a very personal singer, something of which the flamenco It's scarce.
That's why, as soon as he stepped onto the stage, he announced cantes of soleá from Triana, apolá, and of Pepe Marchena in versions of Paco Taranto and the Sandbox, all of them with very personal nuances, very spoken and explosive in their expressiveness, very different from everyone else.
What was announced in that cante That was the approach of the entire recital, which, while, as I've noted, is enjoyable because it lets you know what you're going to hear, it leaves no room to guess what's coming next, because it spoils the suspense. Is that wrong? Yes or no, to each their own.
As for tangos, a good part of the repertoire consisted of those of Pastora y Uncle Borricowhich stood out above the rest. He dared to perform a milonga from Valderrama, the best of the night along with the fandangos at the end. Here he abandoned the idea of speaking the verses and focused on singing them.
He performed cantiñas, covering many of the alegrías derived from them, including those from Córdoba and romeras. He was accompanied on guitar by Salvi Gutiérrez, A master of accompaniment, precise, never seeking the spotlight but subtly contributing to every falseta, every flourish, every offbeat, and every chord. He makes the difficult seem effortless, which positions him as one of the best of our time.
Jeromo recovered several canteLevante's representatives took the opportunity to promote themselves and tell us that thanks to them, at least seven or eight artists have won the coveted Lámpara Minera award in La Unión. There must be something special about it, and although their performance tonight didn't quite meet the standards of what's generally expected... cante In the competition, it shows that he is a wise man capable of contributing his own unique touch when he sets his mind to it.
He approached the cuplé through bulerías Without obligation de Antonio Machin and the well-known Payaso de Child. From his homeland he brought the biblical Sevillanas of the brothers GrapefruitFrom the eldest of them he also brought us a very long series of fandangos, traveling through the villages of the Huelva mountains, all under the musical umbrella of the best fandango singer, Don Paco Toronjo. She finished the party with bulerías in which she gave the spotlight to her two palmerosBoth young and promising flamenco singers: Joshua Segura y Ricardo Anguita.
Credits
recital of cante by Jeromo Segura
Peña The Silversmith, Granada
February 28th 2026
Cante: Jeromo Segura
Guitar: Salvi Gutiérrez
PalmasJosué Segura, Ricardo Anguita
