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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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