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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

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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Palos

Bulerías: El Corazón de Jerez

The fastest, freest palo in flamenco

Twelve beats, accents on three, six, eight, ten and twelve — bulerías is the rhythm flamenco gatherings always end with, and the one that demands the most from every participant.

#gitano #jerez #12-beat #baile

By Lola Vega

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Historia

The Romani Roots of Flamenco

How a centuries-long migration ended in Andalusia

Flamenco is uniquely Andalusian, but the people most responsible for shaping it had been on the road for a thousand years before they arrived in Spain. A short history of the gitanos and their music.

#gitano #andalucía

By Carmen Ríos

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