Artist Profiles: El Polaco
Luis Heredia Fernandez, better known as “El Polaco”, was born in 1950. He started singing professionally at 21, specializing in flamenco tangos and bulerias, performing…
Artist Profiles: El Potito
El Potito Antonio Vargas Cortés El Potito was born in 1976, in Seville. His parents were Gypsy dancers. At the age of six years he…
Artist Profiles: El Torta
Juan Moneo Lara (a.k.a. El Torta) was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz, Spain), 1952. He was a Gypsy Flamenco cantaor (singer). His brother…
Artist Profiles: José Jiménez Abadía, El Viejín
José Jiménez Abadía, El Viejín, lives in the Madrid district of Caño Roto, a surprising Gypsy community where several guitarists have their homes (Felipe Maya…
Artist Profiles: Eliseo Parra
Eliseo Parra is one of Spain’s leading performers and researchers of folk music. He has traveled to small villages to rediscover old songs, musical instruments…
Artist Profiles: Emilio Cao
Emilio Cao is one of the central figures of the Galician Folk music scene. He recovered the use of the harp in Spanish folk music…
Artist Profiles: Emilio Maya
Emilio Maya was born into a Gypsy family in Molvizar, a village just outside of Granada. At the age of eight he began to play…
Artist Profiles: Enrique Morente
The life of the cantaor Enrique Morente Cotelo, born in Granada, was always tied to cante (singing). As a child he was altar boy in…
Leading World Music conference WOMEX 2019 Call for Proposals Now Open
WOMEX, the World Music Expo is welcoming showcase, film and conference proposals from artists, bands, DJs and producers, filmmakers, industry experts and creative thinkers. WOMEX…
Celebrated Zimbabwean Musician Oliver Mtukudzi Dies at 66
Oliver Mtukudzi, one of the most important figures in Zimbabwean music in the past decades, died on January 23, 2019 at the Avenues Clinic in…