Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Flamenco Arts International has announced its inaugural production, Songs ...
María José Llergo’s first EP opens with a knock on a sheet metal door. Recorded on her iPhone, a voice answers: “Who is it?” Llergo responds, “It’s me, grandpa.” Her grandfather asks, “Are you coming ...
The Spanish pop star Rosalía is the rarest kind of modern musician: a relentlessly innovative aesthetic omnivore who also happens to have a decade of Old World, genre-specific formal training under ...
Declaring a liking for flamenco used to be problematic for the Anglo-Saxon temperament. We were rightly scornful of cod-Latin acts like Dorita y Pepe (who were Dorothy and Pete from south London) or ...
This Spanish singer’s debut, “Ultrabelleza,” experiments with a signature genre of her Andalusian homeland, creating an unexpected homage. By Carolina Abbott Galvão When the Spanish singer María José ...
World Music Institute once again teams up with Flamenco Festival New York in an annual celebration of the unique fusion of tradition and the avant-garde that animates contemporary Spanish flamenco.
The 26-year-old Barcelona-born flamenco singer is nominated for best new artist Rosalía took the stage by storm at the 2020 Grammy Awards on Sunday, performing hits including “Con Altura” and ...
Building from the traditional flamenco music of their Spanish Romani ancestors, France’s Gipsy Kings occupy a unique place in the world’s music. Featuring two bands of brothers, the Gipsy Kings blend ...
Spanish avant-pop star Rosalía was just 8 years old when she rode her first motorcycle, her arms wrapped around her dad’s belly from the pillion seat as they blasted off into the hills, somewhere on ...
For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the United States, we tend to push flamenco music and movement into the category of folklore, something to be respected and admired for its showy skills, ...