A Clavo y Canela | The Weekly Letra
Antonio Reyes posted this video from backstage.
Wow.
I love it when we get to see these moments, don’t you?
Siguiriyas
Traditional
A clavo y canela
me hueles tú a mí
el que no huele a clavo y canela
no sabe estinguir*
Cloves and cinnamon
that’s what you smell of to me
The one who doesn’t smell of cloves and cinnamon
cannot discern
Listen to Manuel Torre sing it here.
Listen to Beni de Cádiz sing it here.
Listen to Pepe de Lucía sing it here.
*A Note
I first learned the word estinguir with David Lagos our online workshop, Flamenco: Its Sound, Its Knowledge, Its Origin, where he taught us how to differentiate (estinguir) between flamenco the noun and flamenco the verb.
I found the words to this letra here at flamencoviejo and other versions here at letrapedia and here and here at Toma Flamenco and here at Escenicas Flamencas.
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This other video where he’s accompanying himself backstage por alegrías.
Cover photo by Angelo Pantazis on Unsplash