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: Chambao
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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…
Spanish Flamenco Singer Chiquetete dies at 70
Spanish flamenco and ballad singer Antonio José Cortés Pantoja, better known as Chiquetete, died in Seville, Spain on December 16, 2019 after surgery complications. He…
The SGAE Foundation to Present ‘Flamencos y mestizos’ from December 13 to 16 in Madrid
The SGAE Foundation will present one more edition of the Flamenco and mestizo series this year. The performances begin today, December 13 and will run…