José Manuel Gamboa a well known flamenco expert has come up with
a guide called "Guía libre del flamenco" with the collaboration
of Pedro Calvo,with whom he has worked during 4 years in order to make
this guide. In this guide one can find more than 1000 biographies of flamenco
artist as well as some nice addresses of everything related with flamenco.
Summing up, a lot of data.
One can also see interesting addresses in our link
Oscar
Herrero, the guitarrist will come up in Summer with three new videos about
Solea.
One can have a look to his website here.
And here it is. The first LP of Estrella Morente Carbonell has already come up. She is only 20, born in Granada, in the well-known neighbourhood of the Albaicín, daughter of a gipsy dancer (Aurora Carbonell, La Pelota) y and a non gipsy singer (Enrique Morente). More info in Spanish
Miguel
Flores, the Capullo de Jerez, new disc where he review his
better cantes (songs) . "Éste soy yo" (This is
me) is a simple disc, without strange crafts. In the guitars Niño
Jero and Diego Amaya.
Mayte
Martín, new disc, the third one in her career. Named "Querencia".
Since 1964 with Niño Ricardo, Ricardo Modrego and a Paco de Lucía of 16 years old till Tomatito in 1979, just reedited "La Leyenda del Tiempo" ( The Leyend of Time). This is what the flamenco guitar archives of the Spanish public Television gives us, which are now reedited.
A flamenco guitarrist is the new National Prize of Music in the performer category: Manolo Sanlúcar. "This prize... well, at least it shows that one is doing something that worth and that it is not only for a few, as sometimes one could think".
The 5th of December of 2000 would have reached José Monje Cruz, Camarón, 50 years. The Diputación Cádiz have given the posthumous Llave de Oro del Cante (Golden Key of the Flamenco singing) one of the most important prizes of Flamenco.
FLAMENCO FOR BEGINNERS.
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