‘El Cigala’ (the langostine or Norway lobster) is the nickname given by the Losada brothers to Diego Jimenez Salazar. Cigala is a Gypsy singer-songwriter born…
Artist Profiles: Diego ‘El Cigala’
Tag: Spain
Artist Profiles: Diego “El Cabrillero”
Diego Amaya Núñez, better known as Diego El Cabrillero (Diego, the Goatherder , was born in Utrera (Sevilla), in 1944. He’s the son of La…
Artist Profiles: Daniel Casares
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: Companyia Electrica Dharma
Companyia Electrica Dharma’s main objective was to create music that ascribed to the Mediterranean mentality and sensibility. Companyia Electrica Dharma (C.E.D.) was started by the…
Artist Profiles: Citania
Citania was started in 1986, researching Galician traditional tunes and recovering ancient musical instruments. The group disbanded in the early 1990s. Musicians: Xosé Álvarez on…
Artist Profiles: Chouteira
Chouteira performed Galician tradititonal music sucjh as pasodobles, muiñeiras and waltzes with new arrangements and featured the beautiful voice of Uxía Pedreira. The group incorporated…
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: 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…