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Maestros

Camarón de la Isla

The voice that broke and remade flamenco

José Monge Cruz, born in San Fernando in 1950, recorded for two decades, died at forty-one, and is the only flamenco singer most non-flamenco listeners can name. His influence on the form is impossible to overstate.

#gitano #jondo #cante #siglo-xx #fusion

By Diego Morales

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Palos

Tangos & Tientos: La Familia del 4 por 4

Flamenco's answer to the 4-beat

Not every flamenco palo lives in twelves. The tangos family — tangos flamencos, tientos, tanguillos, zambra — is firmly in 4/4, and arguably the most internationally accessible corner of the form.

#baile #sevilla #cante

By Carmen Ríos

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Palos

Seguiriyas: Cuando el Flamenco Llora

The deepest of the deep

Seguiriyas is the bottom of the well. It is what flamenco sounds like when it has nothing left to perform with — when there is only grief, and someone to sing it.

#gitano #jondo #12-beat #cante #jerez

By Lola Vega

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Palos

Soleá: La Madre del Cante

The mother of all flamenco singing

If flamenco has a foundational palo, it is the soleá — slow, dignified, twelve beats counted from one, and the structural template from which alegrías, bulerías and the cantiñas family all eventually grew.

#gitano #jondo #12-beat #sevilla #baile #cante

By Lola Vega

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Historia

The Golden Age, 1860–1910

Cuando el flamenco se hizo arte

The fifty years between the rise of the cafés cantantes and the First World War produced the figures, the repertoire, and the recordings that still define the canon of flamenco.

#sevilla #siglo-xix #cante

By Diego Morales

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