Fernanda & Bernarda de Utrera

Vocalist Fernanda de Utrera articulated the anguish and episode of flamenco with supernatural strength — famed on her behalf mastery from the soleares form, she was however fluent in every from the music’s iterations, communicating the depths from the human being heart having a piercing cry that transcends vocabulary and culture. Given birth to Fernanda Jiminez Peña in Utrera, Spain, on Feb 8, 1923, she was something from the Pininis, a protracted clan this is the royal category of the flamenco custom. With more youthful sister Bernarda, her lifelong carrying out partner, Fernanda started her singing profession at age group ten, joining additional family (including her grandfather, Pinini patriarch Fernando Peña) at regional fiestas. Word from the sisters’ enormous skill quickly spread through the entire foothills from the Sierra de Cádiz, and in 1952 they made an appearance in Edgar Neville’s film Duende con Misterio del Flamenco. But also for the Pininis flamenco continued to be more a means of life when compared to a vocational route, in support of in 1957 was the maestro Antonio Mairena finally in a position to persuade Fernanda and Bernarda’s parents to endorse a specialist music profession. Mairena negotiated the siblings’ 1st shows in the tablaos (flamenco nightclubs) of Madrid, and stints in the Corral de la Morería, Torres Bermejas, and Todas las Brujas produced them superstars. Though most broadly celebrated on her behalf sublime interpretations from the soleares, Fernanda was also an experienced interpreter of tangos, fandangos, and cantiñas, articulating the essence from the duende nature at flamenco’s melancholy center. Although Fernanda and Bernarda made an appearance on the 1964 World’s Good in NEW YORK, both women had been far too mounted on Utrera to stray too much from their house, plus they headlined few shows beyond the tablao circuit. Fernanda even so made several recordings with Bernarda so that as a single musician, and in the fall of her profession made an appearance in two feature movies, 1987’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba and 1995’s Flamenco. In November 2005, Spain’s Ruler Juan Carlos honored the sisters the Yellow metal Medal for Great Arts. Fernanda de Utrera passed away at her house on August 24, 2006 — upon information of her transferring, Utrera civic market leaders declared three times of mourning.