Quotes About Flamenco

Guajira, colombiana, milonga, rumba - all these styles are flamenco. They're part of the musical tradition in my country, and they are in Latin America too.

The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth. It's a cry and a celebration. That's what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

It is very important that people understand how important flamenco is to the Gypsy community. There have been some amazing Gypsy artists. It's important that we give visibility to that, but at the same time people have to be fair and recognise that Paco de Lucia was the biggest guitar player in this style of music in the world and he wasn't Gypsy.

I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!