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The recipient of very much acclaim, Catalan flamenco singer Miguel Poveda produced a point in early stages in his career, despite his relative youth, to honor the style’s grand music traditions. Given birth to Miguel Ángel Poveda León in Barcelona on Feb 13, 1973, Poveda started performing publicly in 1988, …

A thrilling and high-powered virtuoso pianist, Michel Camilo is a Grammy Award-winning performer known for his cross-pollinated mixture of Latin, jazz, and classical designs. Blessed in 1954 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Camilo originated from an extremely musical family members (all nine of his uncles had been music artists). Originally …

His name is Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar, but to modern flamenco followers he’s referred to as Diego el Cigala, or “the tiny Prawn.” The popular flamenco vocalist José Monje Cruz offered him the nickname due to Diego’s little size as well as the tremendous enthusiasm that pours out of him …

An alternative solution flamenco act from Madrid based around vocalist and dancer Elsa Rovayo, La Shica performs a method of music produced from flamenco in addition to copla that incorporates areas of both hip-hop and pop. Blessed in Ceuta, an autonomous town in the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, simply east …

One of the better guitarists from the nuevo flamenco era, Tomatito (given birth to José Fernández Torres in Almería, Spain in 1958) was raised in a family group of prestigious flamenco lineage, and of them costing only 12 he previously managed to make an impression none apart from Paco de …

Sílvia Pérez Cruz is really a Catalan folksinger with a broad background in jazz, flamenco, and classical music. Although a favorite solo designer in her personal right, she actually is perhaps most widely known as an associate of a number of different ensembles, like the woman flamenco group Todas las …

A techno-pop music group from Spain, Mecano were formed in the first ’80s by brothers Nacho and José María Cano, who have been joined by vocalist Ana Torroja. As the Spanish fresh wave, referred to as Movida Madrileña, was at its highest popularity, Mecano burst in to the regional picture …

Flamenco cantador José Mercé (given birth to José Soto Soto) began performing at age six, learning to be a soloist in his community chapel, La Basílica de la Merced in Jerez, while improving his organic skills by taking part in Antonio Gades’ theatre company. It had been through the early …

Vicente Amigo continues to be called “the organic continuation of Paco de Lucía.” A previous kid prodigy, Amigo offers continued to develop like a musician and vocalist. Inside a 1998 interview, Amigo described, “I really believe that flamenco is definitely something for adults, not only for children. To comprehend flamenco, …

Vocalist/songwriter Kiko Veneno was created in Figueres, Spain, and later on settled in Sevilla building his live debut in a local university or college in 1971. After taking part in a duet known as Kiko y Germán, he became a member of brothers Rafael and Raimundo Amador to create Veneno, …