Daniel Casares is part of a new generation of outstanding flamenco guitarists. A soulful and virtuosic performer, he has received many of Spain’s important honors…
Artist Profiles: Daniel Casares
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Artist Profiles: Chicuelo
Juan Gómez “Chicuelo”(Little Kid) was born in Barcelona in 1968. He began studying the guitar as a boy in the flamenco peñas (clubs) of Barcelona.…
Artist Profiles: Chambao
Chambao, the platinum selling band from Malaga defined the technological frontier of Spain’s reinvention of Flamenco. Somewhere between the organic passion of gritty flamenco of…
Artist Profiles: Carmen Linares
Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez, better known as Carmen Linares, was born in 1951 in Linares, a small village in Jaen province, Spain. She has earned by…
Artist Profiles: Carles Benavent
Bass player, Carles Benavent, was born in the Pueblo Seco (Poble Sec) neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain. His earliest days playing music were in blues and…
Artist Profiles: Carlos Piñana
Carlos Piñana is the youngest of the Piñana saga, a family of deep flamenco tradition that started with the patriarch, his grandfather Antonio Piñana, a…
Artist Profiles: Camarón de la Isla
“You only had to listen to Camarón once to know that he was a genius” – Paco de Lucía. Camarón de la Isla was one…
Artist Profiles: Bernarda de Utrera
Bernarda de Utrera was born Bernarda Jiménez Peña in 1927, in Utrera, near Seville. She came from a legendary family of Flamenco performers. Bernarda was…
Artist Profiles: Arcángel
While in his early twenties, Arcángel became part of a select group of flamenco singers. He maintains this position because he wants to, because he…
Artist Profiles: Amalgama
Amalgama was the amazing result of the collaboration between Spanish Flamenco and Jazz musicians and the renowned Karnataka College of Percussion, from India. The idea…