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Agujetas,
cantaor (September, 2002)
"Camarón is a dog singing"
Ana
Salazar, singer and bailaora (October, 2007)
“I fight for flamenco
my way”
Ana
Salazar, singer and bailaora (October, 2003)
"Edith Piaf taught me to pour out my heart when I
sing"
Antonio
Agujetas (June, 2001)
"This is a recording for good, solid cante-lovers"
Antonio
Chacón
"Montoya's guitar is me"
Antonio
Malena, Cantaor. Interview
“You have to feel the music. I even get emotion
al singing the carefree lyric of a bulería”
Antonio
Nuñez El chocolate (2001)
Arcángel,
cantaor (October, 2007)
“Unfortunately, there are still uncompromising
people in flamenco”
Arcángel
(December, 2005)
“I need to explore other paths; I get bored
always singing the same thing”
Arcángel
(2000)
I think that Camaron has had too big an influence
on people. Listening to Camaron was a pleasure, but
no everyone can be like him.
Arcángel (March, 2001)
"There are many people who are determined to
reach a high note and they forget about everything
else"
Argentina,
cantaora (July, 2006)
“I wouldn’t like to go out on stage and
hear people say I’m the spitting image of another
cantaora”
Capullo
de Jerez, cantaor (September, 2006)
“A lot of things are called flamenco now which
really aren’t”
Capullo
de Jerez, cantaor (November, 2005)
“Nobody can invent anything
in flamenco because it's all been invented already”
Capullo
de Jerez (January, 2001)
"I always say that singing is like your ID:
a photocopy is worthless"
Carmen
Carmona, singer (January, 2002)
"You have to draw from the source which is Camarón"
Carmen
Grilo and José Valencia, cantaores (August,
2005)
“Flamenco evolves because each artist contributes
his own personality”
Carmen
Linares, cantaora. 10th Anniversary of ‘Antología.
La mujer en el cante’ (June, 2007)
“The stagnation in flamenco is neither good
nor genuine”
Carmen
Linares (October, 2000)
"I
started off singing at home. My dad played guitar,
and we'd sing and play all the time."
Flamenco
x 2. Carlos and Curro Piñana, guitarist and
cantaor (July, 2007)
“We like researching flamenco and bringing out
new ideas”
Chano
Lobato, Matilde Coral and Juan Habichuela (September,
2003)
While they're with us
Chano
Lobato (June, 2001)
He's 72 years old, but Chano laughs
like a little kid when the talk is about flamenco.
Chano
Lobato and Marina Heredia (May 2002)
"Duende? I don't know what that's supposed to mean"
David
Palomar, cantaor (July, 2008)
‘Trimilenaria’, track-by-track
David
Palomar, cantaor (July, 2007)
“I don’t know whether I like laughing
more or singing”
Diego
Clavel, cantaor. Interview (January, 2008)
“I ask a lot of people questions because that’s
how you learn cante”
Diego
el Cigala, cantaor (July, 2008)
“A bolero is sung with the same tragedy as a
soleá”
Diego
el Cigala, cantaor (September, 2005)
“I really needed this flamenco album”
Diego
el Cigala, cantaor (January, 2002)
"In flamenco there's more and more desire to learn
all the time, people are dying to create"
Diego
el Cigala, cantaor (september, 2001)
"Camarón is a like an albatross around
my neck"
Diego
el Cigala (October, 2000)
"I offer a modern interpretation of flamenco
that is respectful of tradition."
Dolores
Agujeta (January, 2001)
"I do what I can, I don't know about cante
or nothing."
Duquende,
cantaor (October, 2005)
“People are starting to recognize me”
Duquende
(July, 2000)
"I never thought I'd be a singer, I just
liked to sing."
Pepe
León ‘El Ecijano’, cantaor (November,
2006)
“Flamenco has to open up, but not from cante;
from music”
El
Lebrijano, cantaor (June, 2008)
“Many sing well, but... and what else?”
El
Lebrijano, cantaor (april, 2005)
“Making an album these days really racks my
brains”
El
Lebrijano, (2001)
"Music is the successfull combining of sounds
in time"
El
Lebrijano (1999)
"It really got to
me when García Marquez wrote: When Lebrijano sings,
water gets wet."
El
Pele and Vicente Amigo on 'Canto' (October, 2003)
"We both hurt on the same side"
El
Torta, cantaor (November, 2007)
“Truth is missing in today’s flamenco”
El
Torta, cantaor (August, 2004)
“Now I realize I have to take the responsibility
and sing well”
Encarnación
Marín, La Sallago, singer (February, 2002)
"I think that pure cante is never lost because there's
always a select audience"
Encarna
Anillo, cantaora (April,2008)
“In flamenco cante you can’t settle for
the gift you’ve been given”
Encarnita
Anillo, cantaora (August, 2006)
“Ever since I was able to think for myself I've
been up on stage”
Enrique
el Extremeño, cantaor (October, 2002)
"How do I learn so many shows? By rehearsing
a lot"
Enrique
Morente, cantaor (February, 2007)
“Cante doesn’t have maestros, it has disciples”
Enrique
Morente, cantaor (June, 2006)
A desire and a quest for everything
Enrique
Morente, cantaor (February, 2006)
“Cante has always been in a state of evolution”
Enrique
Morente (September, 2000)
"Literal and dogmatic definitions tire
me. I like the truth, the roots, I don't like those
that are made by purists."
Esperanza
Fernández, cantaora (November, 2007)
“Everybody knows flamenco is free and
each person expresses himself the way he feels it”
Esperanza
Fernández, singer (January, 2002)
"Jazz has given me a lot of wisdom for
going out on stage"
Esperanza
Fernández, cantaora (December, 2005)
“Flamenco is the longest career; you never stop
learning”
Esperanza
Fernández (February, 2001)
"Women now play an important role, not only
in the music, but also in general."
Estrella
Morente, cantaora (October, 2005)
“I'm still not even a trace of what I want to
be”
Estrella
Morente, cantaora (August, 2003)
"More than success, what matters to me is that my
work is respected"
Estrella
Morente (March, 2001)
"I can't fall back on the Morente name, I'm
aware there are many people with high hopes, and plenty
of others just waiting to pounce"
Fernando
Terremoto (August, 2000)
"It's clear that we have to
respect flamenco, but it's also true that we could
do with a little lightening-up, a little joy. "
Fosforito (1999)
"I´ll tell you something else, the cante
is above even any genius, if you can call anybody
a genius in this thing."
Fosforito,
cantaor (August, 2005)
“Chocolate was a terrific cantaor who
also had what it takes to get Cante's Llave de Oro”
Ginesa
Ortega, cantaora (January, 2006)
“I always get to the party early, get bored
and leave. And when I'm gone, the party starts”
Ginesa
Ortega, cantaora (January, 2003)
"I would like to reflect an image of freedom in flamenco
cante"
Israel
Paz, cantaor (December, 2006)
“Flamenco isn’t from anywhere”
Jesús
Méndez, cantaor (August, 2006)
“When my family heard me sing, my father tore
his shirt open”
Joaquín
el Canastero (October, 2001)
"They've written black literature about Camarón"
José
Menese (December, 2000)
"In flamenco everything is being lost
except the shamelessness"
José
Mercé, cantaor (November, 2004)
“I'm one of those people who likes to sing,
not shout”
José
Mercé, cantaor (November, 2002)
"If doing modern flamenco is a sin, I'm going to Hell"
José
Parra, cantaor (January, 2004)
"In cante flamenco you have to outdo yourself and
evolve, without ever losing the roots"
José
Valencia and Carmen Grilo, cantaores (August, 2005)
“Flamenco evolves because each artist contributes
his own personality”
Juan
Villar (2001)
"I like soleá more than bulería"
La
Macanita (2000)
"I've
been singing since I was a little child. I couldn't
understand a thing, but I was already singing"
La
Niña de los Peines. Historic interview (July,
1935)
Singing's taking a change for the worst
La
Susi, Arcángel and Diego Carrasco on 'Territorio Flamenco'
(October, 2003)
"We're taking risks to open doors for flamenco"
La Susi
(November, 2002)
"They used to call me the female Camarón, but
I'm not, because Camarón was one of a kind"
La
Tana, cantaora (April, 2005)
“I hope not to be a short-lived cantaora”
La
Tobala, cantaora (April, 2008)
“Seeking personality in flamenco is not having
it”
Lole,
cantaora. Interview
“Since everything I sing is new, I can’t
take notice of anybody”
Lole
Montoya, cantaora (March, 2004)
"Lole and Manuel have made a kind of music that still
isn't understood"
Luis
el Zambo, cantaor (June, 2006)
“If Tío Borrico were alive to see what
an artist’s paid right now, he’d knock
his head against the wall”
Marina
Heredia, cantaora. ‘La voz del agua’,
track by track (March, 2007)
“When I’m singing I like to say something,
to leave a message”
Marina
Heredia, cantaora (July, 2005)
"I have to show things on this album I didn't
show on the previous one"
Marina
Heredia (2001)
"I like to think like the elders"
Marina
Heredia (2001)
"Look, that stuff about gypsy or non-gypsy, it
doesn't make any sense to me in this day and age"
Mayte
Martín, flamenco cantaora. Interview
"The Labèque
sisters didn't choose the most high-profile artist,
nor the most flamenco-looking"
Mayte
Martín (March, 2001)
"Flamenco isn't exclusive to any race, nor
any place in particular"
Miguel
Poveda, cantaor (November, 2006)
“I’m along the lines of brave artists”
Miguel
Poveda (March, 2004)
"I find myself back to scratch because I feel more
responsibility"
Miguel
Poveda (2001)
"I write some verses, but then I don't like
them so I don't sing them. I always prefer the ones
written by others"
Miguel
Poveda (1999)
"I like to do research, understand why
things are a certain way. Then I can do my work with
coherence and intelligence."
Niña
Pastori, cantaora. (September, 2006)
“Fans in America know a lot about flamenco”
Niña
Pastori, singer (April, 2002)
"Nobody's my boss, not at the record company, not
anywhere. My boss is the audience"
Niño
de Olivares (September, 2001)
"I just can't believe this is happening"
Paco
del Pozo, cantaor (January, 2004)
"New musical directions are crucial to flamenco"
Pepa
de Benito, Gaspar de Utrera and El Cuchara, cantaores.
(August, 2005)
“Cante can't be learned”
Pepe
de Lucía, singer (November, 2002)
"These days there are nice singers around, good singers,
but like Paco says, they're all clones"
Pitingo,
cantaor. ‘Soulería’, track by track
(June, 2008)
“What should be frightening is not creating
anything in flamenco cante”
Pitingo,
cantaor (December, 2007)
“I’d rather be criticized the way Camarón
and Enrique Morente were criticized”
Pitingo,
Cantaor (July, 2006)
“I’d have loved to take the seguiriya
off the album as a single”
Potito
(May, 2006)
“I stole what I needed from Camarón”
Potito
(1998)
"There are only two types of musicians
and music: what you can relate to and what you can't.
I like to work with whoever I like."
Rafael
de Utrera, cantaor (February, 2004)
"Flamenco has to move with the times, it can't look
over its shoulder constantly"
Rafael
de Utrera (March, 2001)
"I can't understand those people who distinguish
between great styles and small styles, or gypsy cante
and non-gypsy cante"
Segundo
Falcón, cantaor and director of the Centro
Andaluz de Flamenco (May, 2002)
"If you don't know the foundations of flamenco you
always tip the scales one way or the other, you'll
never have the balance you can get from studying the
roots"
Sonia
Miranda, cantaora (April, 2006)
“What still catches my eye is flamenco’s
capacity to excite”
Tomás
de Perrate, cantaor (February, 2006)
“I'm going to copy, which is the best way to
learn”
Vicente
Soto Sordera, cantaor (December, 2004)
“I sing with thought”
Vicente
Soto (1999)
"It's a great responsibility to carry
on with a family singing tradition."
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