Can you name all of the cantes de ida y vuelta?
These are flamenco styles that came into being through migration to Latin America then back to Spain.
Included are the Guajira, Colombiana, Rumba, Vidalita, and Milonga.
How to dance flamenco, flamenco travel in Spain, flamenco dance students and their experiences, interviews with flamenco artists, translations of flamenco letras (songs) from Spanish to English
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Can you name all of the cantes de ida y vuelta?
These are flamenco styles that came into being through migration to Latin America then back to Spain.
Included are the Guajira, Colombiana, Rumba, Vidalita, and Milonga.
Here is another colombianas letra that I got from Mercedes from her show Perspectivas.
Cansados de tanto llorar
mis ojos se van durmiendo…
Sometimes you want to know a song to go along with the dance form you're studying in class. Other times you want to know the words to that particular flamenco song you like so much. And sometimes you long to know what those words mean.
Here you'll find a collection of letras (flamenco verses) organized by palo (flamenco form.)
This song will make your life better the moment you press play. You could even just listen to the first twenty seconds though that will likely be impossible because I imagine once you get started you probably will want to hear the whole song.
It's Enrique Morente and his daughter Estrella singing colombianas.
Last time we were in Jerez I was asking Mercedes for clarification of the words to a tangos letra that we were dancing to. I got so excited when I saw the Guión to her show Perspectivas (which she got out to show me the words) that she loaned it to me to so that I could look at all of the letras. This is a colombianas I found in there: