letras

Viernes con una Letra | Silencio (fandangos para bailar con Emilio)

¡Vamos a bailar unos fandangos con Emilio! Below, some fandangos from Pitingo’s Soulería.  And it happens to be the music Emilio will be using for the beginning coreografía class.  We still have spots available if you want to get in on the baile & palmas workshops next weekend… Silencio Más quiero hoy el fandango es [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | tangos

It’s tangos.  Tangos that we danced tonight in class…  We did this letra on Wednesday too. And everybody looked so happy when they were suddenly dancing to cante. Because there’s just something about dancing to the cante.  Marcandolo, rematandolo.  Simply put, It’s fun. After class some started asking questions, “What was that song?”  So, here [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Fandangos

I asked Emilio, who is coming here very very very soon, to give me a favorite letra.  He couldn’t decide.  ”Fandangos,”  he said, any and all.  (I LOVED the fandangos he taught us last year.) So, I want you to see this video.  Arcángel, cantando por fandangos.  I saw him perform them live, and oh [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | bulerías (…por soleá)

In honor of more bulerías starting in May… Bulerías José Soto Barea Me pongo a comer y no como me acuerdo de tus acciones y con la comida me ahogo. I go to eat and I don’t eat I remember what you did And the food suffocates me. I’ve heard this sung as a bulerías [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | más tientos

Last week I told you we would have more tientos today, so here you go… Tientos Camarón de la Isla Cuantas veces yo he pensado que el mundo es una mentira cuantos quisieran tener pá comer lo que otros tiran How often I have thought that the world is a lie How many would like to have [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Tientos de El Mellizo

If you know me, you know that I absolutely love tientos.  Someday I will tell you the story of Ricardo’s refusal, after much begging, to teach me tientos, but not today. I have loved this palo from the first time I heard it.  And this tientos has perhaps my favorite estribillo of all time.  It is [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | fandangos…again

And here is the first copla Mayte Martín sings in Conquero.  You might have seen the second one here last week, and the final one the week before.  It’s all a bit mixed up but, then, so am I.  Hmm, though upon second thought, that’s how flamenco is normally sung.  The singer mixes and matches [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | más fandangos

It’s another fandangos verse from Mayte Martín’s Conquero, which we are dancing to in Ricardo’s beginning workshop.   Here is Antonio Rengel singing it.  It seems he may have written it, but I am not sure.  If you know, please let me know! Olas de la mar el calma conchas llenas de lunares si me dieras tus amores [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Fandangos de Huelva

Some Fandangos de Huelva.  (We’ll be dancing to a version sung by Mayte Martín with Ricardo this weekend.) Fandangos de Huelva No podía una noche tormentosa quise dormir y no podía soñé que estabas con otro y hasta la almohada mordía los celos me vuelven loco Paco Toronjo Fandangos de Huelva I couldn’t a stormy night [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Ten Cuidao

“Déjame saber tu letra favorita, Tell me your favorite letra,” I begged Ricardo. He gave me this one, from Ten Cuidao, a bulerías by Mayte Martín.  Perhaps next week I’ll post the first letra. Anyway, here she is performing the whole thing live, and below that you’ll find Ricardo’s favorite part. (From) Ten Cuidao Mayte Martín [...]

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