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unusual facts about Cante flamenco



Concurso de Cante Jondo

It was music Falla had spent years studying, having grown up with it, hearing it directly from Gitano friends, cantaores and tocaores.

Juana la Macarrona

This Spanish article references the writers José Manuel Caballero Bonald and :es:Alfonso Grosso (who also painted her portrait), the flamencólogo professors Daniel Pineda Novo (who wrote her biography) and Juan de la Plata, Pablillos de Valladolid, and her contemporary the flamenco cantaor Fernando el de Triana (1870-1940), who as Fernando Rodríguez Gómez wrote his account of fellow performers, Arte y artistas flamencos (Madrid: Imprenta helénica 1935).


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