{"id":12676,"date":"2019-05-06T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:53:34","slug":"granada-musical-clans-preserve-and-break-with-flamenco-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/granada-musical-clans-preserve-and-break-with-flamenco-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Granada Musical Clans Preserve and Break with Flamenco Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winter 2018 issue of Classical Guitar<\/i> magazine focused on families in music, as exemplified by the Romeros<\/strong><\/a>. Families also play an important role in handing down the traditions of flamenco. The Habichuela-Carmona clan and the Morente family\u2014both from the Albaic\u00edn Gypsy quarter in Granada, Spain\u2014have been vital in the history of flamenco not only for maintaining links with the past, but also for breaking down the barriers of those traditions and altering and opening up the possibilities of the art form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The legendary flamenco singer Enrique Morente began his singing career in a very traditional way and had a deep knowledge of all that had gone before him in flamenco, having worked in Granada and Madrid with some of flamenco\u2019s finest artists, such as Pepe de la Matrona and guitarists F\u00e9lix de Utrera and Ni\u00f1o Ricardo. But he was also not afraid to venture outside flamenco, collaborating with musicians as distantly related as the rock group Lagartija Nick. When he died suddenly in December 2010, his daughter\u2014the singer Estrella Morente\u2014already had an established international career. More recently, her younger siblings have followed a similar path, with her sister Sole\u00e1 performing and making solo recordings, such as Ole Lorelei <\/i>(Sony, 2018); her brother Kiki Morente is also active. Guitarist Pepe Habichuela accompanies Kiki in concert (as he did with Kiki\u2019s father, Enrique), and Habichuela\u2019s nephew, the guitarist Juan Habichuela Nieto, also accompanies Kiki.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in 1989, Nieto showed his abilities from a young age, and in 2011 was awarded the Bord\u00f3n de Oro at the Festival International del Cante de las Minas. His first album, Mi Alma a Solas<\/i>, came in 2000. In 2017, he released Juan Habichuela Nieto: Con nuestro coraz\u00f3n a Paco de Luc\u00eda\u2014<\/i>collaborating with flautist Jorge Pardo and bass player Carles Benavent, both veteran members of Paco de Luc\u00eda\u2019s sextet.<\/p>\n