Artist
El Cuadro Flamenco
El Cuadro Flamenco
Compás Extremeńos
She is unpredictable: a priceless asset for an expressive flamenco artist. Born in 1964, María de los Angeles Salazar Saavedra is also recognised as an extremely emotional vocalist with a “rough voice,” and an outstanding interpreter of jaleos and tangos: Extremaduran flamenco styles. Her renditions gain a trembling and intense rhythm which deeply penetrates every worry she sings out - whether it is about love, disappointment or roaming around...
As La Kaita, together with Alejandro Vega, a highly appreciated flamenco vocalist, her brother El Nene, a guitarist and dancer Antonio Silva, and El Pelegrino, she began her career on the stages of Badajoz – not only the centre of Andalusian flamenco capitals including Jerez, Sevilla or San Fernando, but also a home for Gypsy artists. Thanks to the ensembles like the one above, jaleos and tangos songs have preserved their original gestures, lyrics and sounds which wandered to Spain from the distant India. La Kaita, a member of the Porrinos – a Romani family well-known for their musical traditions – has won the first prize in the national contest Songs of Extremadura, this way making the Badajoz flamenco widely acknowledged.
La Kaita’s acting and singing could be appreciated in Tony Gatlif’s famous Vengo (2000), while a wider audience were offered an opportunity to hear her voice in another Gatlif’s film titled Lacho Drom (1993): a Gypsy journey story starting in the Rajasthan deserts, running through the lively Egyptian oases, the Turkish ghettos, the wilds of the Eastern Europe, and France, ending in the windy seaside towns of the Iberian Peninsula. This never-ending journey will bring the genuine flamenco from Badajoz straight to Brave Festival.
Programme:
Title: Grand Finale of the Brave Festival “Prayers of the World” - joint performance of all Brave Kids groups and a concert of El Cuadro Flamenco
Place: The Puppet Theatre
date/hour: 11.07.2009 / 21:00
Price: minimum 5 P
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El Cuadro FlamencoCompás Extremeńos
She is unpredictable: a priceless asset for an expressive flamenco artist. Born in 1964, María de los Angeles Salazar Saavedra is also recognised as an extremely emotional vocalist with a “rough voice,” and an outstanding interpreter of jaleos and tangos: Extremaduran flamenco styles. Her renditions gain a trembling and intense rhythm which deeply penetrates every worry she sings out - whether it is about love, disappointment or roaming around...
As La Kaita, together with Alejandro Vega, a highly appreciated flamenco vocalist, her brother El Nene, a guitarist and dancer Antonio Silva, and El Pelegrino, she began her career on the stages of Badajoz – not only the centre of Andalusian flamenco capitals including Jerez, Sevilla or San Fernando, but also a home for Gypsy artists. Thanks to the ensembles like the one above, jaleos and tangos songs have preserved their original gestures, lyrics and sounds which wandered to Spain from the distant India. La Kaita, a member of the Porrinos – a Romani family well-known for their musical traditions – has won the first prize in the national contest Songs of Extremadura, this way making the Badajoz flamenco widely acknowledged.
La Kaita’s acting and singing could be appreciated in Tony Gatlif’s famous Vengo (2000), while a wider audience were offered an opportunity to hear her voice in another Gatlif’s film titled Lacho Drom (1993): a Gypsy journey story starting in the Rajasthan deserts, running through the lively Egyptian oases, the Turkish ghettos, the wilds of the Eastern Europe, and France, ending in the windy seaside towns of the Iberian Peninsula. This never-ending journey will bring the genuine flamenco from Badajoz straight to Brave Festival.
Programme:
Title: Grand Finale of the Brave Festival “Prayers of the World” - joint performance of all Brave Kids groups and a concert of El Cuadro Flamenco
Place: The Puppet Theatre
date/hour: 11.07.2009 / 21:00
Price: minimum 5 P
