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Interviews

Howe Gelb and Raimundo Amador

Interview with Raimundo Amador and Howe Gelb
Raimundo Amador: "I have to play with other people or I get bored"

Noa and Dorantes

Interview with Noa and Dorantes
"We are united by our passion and freedom and the depth of our music "

Tomatito

Interview with Tomatito
"The father of guitar is Paco de Lucía and the rest of us just do what we can "

The vocals of Paco del Pozo and the guitar of Daniel Casares make up the soundtrack of the first film on the life of Christ made in Spain
"El Discípulo": flamenco soundtrack

Interview with Rojas and Rodríguez (Nuevo Ballet Español)
"What they say is pure today won’t be pure tomorrow"

Interview with Israel Galván
"Flamenco is about fighting and freedom"

Interview with Lola Greco
"Flamenco is an art form which is charged with dignity and that has an impact that goes beyond the immediate senses"

Interview with Niño Josele
"Paco de Lucía is like a father for me"

Interview with Enrique Morente
"I don’t like to do the same as others"

Interview with Peret
"Flamenco is a lesser style of rumba"

Flamenco Kids Interview
"The idea was to do a album for adults but with lyrics for kids”

Interview with Mayte Martín
"Really good flamenco is the one that joins Valderrama’s melody with La Paquera’s passion"

Ezequiel Benítez, Jesús Méndez and José Carpio "Mijita" talk about their new album that features the most traditional vocals from Jerez
Nueva Frontera del Cante de Jerez 2008

Interview with Javier Barón
"I approach dance as a form of expression, through movement, through the lyrics and the emotion of the vocals"

Interview with Tomasito
"I have flamenco in my DNA and rock turns me on"

Interview with con Vicente Amigo
"Flamenco is a way of feeling while you dream"

Interview with Valderrama
"My father was vocals incarnate, he was a flamenco Google"

Interview with Martirio
"Flamenco is the most spectacularly real music"

Interview with Ojos de Brujo (Dj Panko)
"Without doing flamenco as such we are ambassadors for flamenco around the world"

Interview with Fuensanta La Moneta
"My dancing is a search for balance between technique and art"

Interview with Eva Yerbabuena
"The only innovation that can be done nowadays is doing things with your personal seal"

Interview with Sara Baras
"Carmen is a very flamenco character because she stands up for truth and her feelings at any given time"

Interview with Carmen Linares
"If you don’t have deep roots in flamenco you get lost"

Interview with Los Chichos
"We are a people's band, a band for people from the street"

Interview with El Pele
"I don’t even want to hear about fusion, confusion or flamenquitos"

Interview with Carmen Cortés
"Flamenco is a very emotional and visceral music"

Interview with Pascal Gaona
"Internet is an ideal way to disseminate and exchange flamenco experiences"

Interview with Gerardo Núñez
"Us Jerezean guitar players live for each note"

Interview with El Lebrijano
"Flamenco is one of those sweets that if you try you end up eating whole"

Interview with José Menese
"Flamenco purity and the flamenco I defend to the hilt is being devalued"

Interview with Antonio Márquez
"Spanish dance is not the same thing as flamenco dance"

Interview with Rey Morao
"We start with our flamenco essence and then get dirty with other sounds"

Interview with Alicia Gil
“Flamenco is on top form"

Interview with La Shica
"There is a lot of rap in flamenco"

Interview with the vocalist Juan Moneo "El Torta"
"Flamenco song is a lament, a struggle, the expression of a people"

Interview with the musician and producer Javier Limón
"You have to learn a lot of flamenco to then forget it"

We talk to Pepe Habichuela and Enrique Vargas about the "Yerbagüena" music score
"Yerbagüena is a classic example of natural and organic flamenco fusion"

Interview with the guitar player and composer Paco Cepero
"I will die holding a guitar"

Interview with the vocalist Esperanza Fernández
"Good flamenco makes your hair stand on end even if you don’t understand it"

Interview with the dancer Isabel Bayón
"I think everything has already been invented in flamenco"

Interview with the vocalist and dancer Ana Salazar
"I have a flamenco soul"

We chat to Rubem Dantas, master of flamenco percussion
"The box drum has given everything to flamenco"

El Lebrijano, a flamenco artist for peace
"I have always been a committed man and a committed artist"

Carlos Tato, elbicho bassist, talks to us briefly about their third album
"We mix flamenco and other styles unconsciously"

We spoke to Miguel Poveda, the present and future of flamenco vocals
"The place I feel calm is in the South, Andalucía, in Seville"

Juan Habichuela talks about his new album, "Una guitarra en Granada"
"I'm very fond of this record, I think it will be my last"

José Antonio Rodríguez talks about his new album "Córdoba… en el tiempo"
"The tension of performing live means that the music is much more real than when recorded in a studio"

Masanobu Takimoto "El Cartero", Eizo Tawara and Yuki Onuma: three Japanese flamenco artists
Singing dancing and music "made in Japan"

Son de la Frontera tells us about their back and forth flamenco
"We are travellers who look forward without forgetting where we've been"

We talk to Joaquin Cortes, currently flamenco’s brightest star
"I would like to be remembered as a flamenco revolutionary"

Belén López, the struggle of a rising star of flamenco dance
"I think I was born with my dancing shoes on"

Cristina Hoyos reflects on her latest work, her long career and interesting life
"I consider myself a bridge between the past and the future"

Dorantes reveals the keys to his upcoming album
"I am in a very private moment, just me and my piano"

A chat with Juan Manuel Cañizares
"Learning music is not going to make you any less flamenco"

We talk to Falete, a unique artist
"The copla and flamenco are art forms"

The guitarist and the dancer are the stars of the Flamenco Festival
A flamenco couple: Gerardo Núñez and Carmen Cortés

Manuela Carrasco premieres with her new production "Romalí"
"Flamenco’s roots are in India"

Arcángel reveals the secrets of "Ropavieja"
"I like singing with an old style vibe but with a modern sound"

An interview with Antonio El Pipa
"You need technique to a certain extent, enough to be able to forget about it"

Mario Maya discusses his production "Diálogo del Amargo"
"A dancer has to adapt to the music and the vocals"

Enrique de Melchor reveals his secrets to masterfull guitar playing.
"It's more difficult to play accompanying guitar than solo guitar"

Pepe de Lucía talks about his latest, about Camarón and his brother Paco
"Camarón has no equals"

Martirio speaks of her love of the jondo art
"Flamenco showed me another way of being"

A chat with Capullo de Jerez
"Flamenco has to break you"

Rafael Amargo reveals his future projects
“I am fickle, my dancing style changes depending on which way the wind is blowing.”

Rafael Amador reveals the secrets behind Pata Negra's return to us
"Good music always lasts"

The Cádiz bailaora pays tribute to the veteran cantaor in her show "Sabores"
Sara Baras and Rancapino taste each other

Chano Domínguez talks to us about his latest project
"New Flamenco Sound is the label that I have decided to give myself"

Antonio Carmona talks to us about his solo debut and the break-up of Ketama
"I have flamenco in my life, I feel that mine is a flamenco life"

Eva Yerbabuena, the winner of the latest Giraldillo award for dancing, tells us about her last few shows
"I like to share beauty"

The guitarist and the cantaor talk to us about solidarity and their coming joint project
Gallardo del Rey and Paco del Pozo: a stable artistic partnership

Sara Baras tells us about "Sabores", her latest show
"I don't feel like a leading figure, I feel like one more worker"

The bailaora María Juncal tells us everything about her latest prizes and the manner in which she conceives dancing
"At present, I prefer how women dance to men"

Chico Ocaña and Fernando de France tell us of the film about the Mártires del Compás
"Ar meno un quejío" with two voices

Pitingo reveals the secrets of his recording debut to us
"One has to contribute harmonies and new things, this must be the artist's goal"

We chat with Navajita Plateá about their latest work
"The songs set a direction for you, and it is they who water the path"

Carmen Linares tells us about "Falla, Lorca y Cante Jondo"
"Flamenco is the best music that exists in the world"

Niño Josele tells us about his unique tribute to Bill Evans
"It is always possible to make some good fusion with musical genres that have roots"

Juan Verdú, the director of Suma Flamenca, tells us about the first Flamenco Festival of the Madrid Community
"Madrid is very well known in the whole world for its importance in flamenco"

Michel Camilo and Tomatito bring us closer to "Spain again"
"Musically speaking, we jump, we jump out without a parachute"

Antonio Vargas "Potito" reveals the secrets of his eagerly awaited record
"From now on, I think a new stage in my career will begin"

Estrella Morente talks to us about her new work
"I am a flamenco cantaora, and I will always be while I can"

Dean Watson, its creator and director, talks to us of this unique experience
"Flamenco @": therapeutic flamenco for adolescents with Down Syndrome

Ramón Giménez, the Ojos de Brujo flamenco guitarist, talks to us of the band's latest record
"Ojos de Brujo is based on the yearning to find meeting points between flamenco and the different musical styles that we carry within ourselves"

Duquende talks to us about his new record
"My way of living is like the one of any gypsy. With my people, with my family, with my flamenco, listening to my things"

Manuel Salado, director of the didactic collection Guitarra Flamenca
"It is an indispensable teaching method for learning to play the flamenco guitar"

Ginesa Ortega talks of "Flamenca", the fourth album in her career
Ginesa Ortega: "This record sounds like today's flamenco and flamenco as it has always been"

Israel Galván, winner of the 2005 National Dance Prize. Video samples of his dancing
"I think the prize acknowledges that I have innovated, keeping within the roots"

Enrique Heredia "Negri" talks about his record, "El último beso"
"It was something I had been meaning to do for a long time"

Paco Mora, the artistic director and choreographer of the opening show of "Málaga en Flamenco"
You don't learn the duende, one has to have it and to know how to release it"

Chico Ocaña, the leader of Mártires del Compás
"We have released six records, although no one gambled on us at first"

Paco Ortega, producer, composer, singer and businessman
"We still have to get rid of our complexes and defend flamenco holding our heads up high"

Interview with elbicho, whose second record is already on the market
"In elbicho II, the songs have been thought up for the current line-up"

Interview with Manuel Salado
"In flamenco dancing, it is very important to study all the exercises slowly"

Interview with Lamari, the vocalist of Chambao
"There is a personal and musical evolution in the record"

Interview with La Tana
"Flamenco singing is my life and I can't stop singing"

"Puertas Abiertas", with accompaniment by Faiçal, is El Lebrijano's 34th record
Lebrijano: "It is a fusion record, but it is very well done"

"Un momento en el sonido". Vicente Amigo, guitarist and composer
Vicente Amigo: "I think it is the most flamenco record I have made"

The Japanese flamenco dance company Mami y Hiro
"Flamenco is indispensable to tell the story of Tokubei and Ohatsu"

Víctor Monge "Serranito", guitarist and composer
"There are very good artists on the current flamenco scene"

Interview with La Macanita, cantaora
"La Paquera is La Paquera and La Macana is La Macana"

From 21 to 26 September: 'Carmen, Carmela' in the Teatro Novedades in Barcelona
Antonio Canales, choreographer: "It is a new way of looking at flamenco, now that so much of it is good, pretty and cheap"

Interview with Israel Galván, bailaor and choreographer
"The bailaor's bull is the audience which he is facing"

Interview with Farruquito, the bailaor
"Directing my family is a very big head-ache at the same time as it makes me proud"

Interview: Son de la Frontera
Raúl Rodríguez, the artistic director and Cuban 'tres' player: "May tradition help us to advance"

Chico Ocaña, the leader of Mártires del Compás
"A man who does not progress, does not evolve and rots, like water if it becomes stagnant"

Pilar Vera, flamenco fashion designer
"We have to adhere to certain rules, but we adapt to different trends"

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