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At 30,

feels a true devotion to flamenco.

You live it literally 24 hours a day.

Every morning the music of Paco de Lucía is played as soon as we wake up.

"I have been doing it for many years and it is a blessing. It changes your day," he says.

At night, he always sleeps with his headphones on: "Many times I wake up saying 'oooole'".

Called to be a benchmark in the genre, it is already said that he is "the most important cantaor of his generation".

For now, he has four albums published although the first of which he is a lyricist,

(Universal), has just come out, where

accompanies him

on guitar.

His passion was born when he was very young.

Raised in the bosom of a gypsy family in

(Toledo), he remembers that every day at home was a party: "My mother with the guitar, my uncles singing ... It was normal, there was no need for a celebration."

One day, his father took him to sing at a local restaurant where, things of destiny,

with his manager.

He heard him sing, offered to join his tour, and that was how his passion left his house.

Q.- What do you remember from the beginning with Fernando Esteso?

A.- In my town there was a bar, which no longer exists, by a man who was Cordovan and liked cante a lot.

I remember wearing the Giralda and Torre del Oro rings together.

A double gold ring was worth a fortune.

When I was a kid, I was very interested in him.

My father took me there one day and I sang.

In this that inside the restaurant was Fernando Esteso with his manager.

I sang a fandango and he hired me.

We did about half a year, 30 or 40 galas, for the festivities in the small towns of Madrid, La Mancha ... It was very beautiful.

Q.- After Esteso, you have participated in television competitions, you have been in the Sara Baras company and you have given your own concerts. Have you ever been afraid of the stage?

A.-

No. I have had, and have, responsibility with myself and with music.

Because, humbly, I have a clear way of seeing it.

So when I feel physically well with my head, voice, instrument and with the music, one comes out more confident.

I prefer, as the teacher Paco says, to like myself and then transmit what I feel.

Because if you sing to be liked, it is as if you dress to be liked.

Q.- Do you listen to a lot of flamenco in your town?

A.-

Not in my town.

What happens is that Spain is flamenco.

Now because there is less and it is a shame, but formerly the copla, the Spanish cante, was heard a lot.

Now the children listen to other things.

And, well, it's okay.

Life goes on and so does music.

But my town is not very flamenco.

I have grown up in that environment because of my race and because it has come to me like this.

Q.- So the passion has come to you for the family part

A.-

I did not have a conversation musically with my friends or with my family, because they don't see it as I do.

They like.

But one thing is that you like it and another that you have something in there.

My parents or my cousins ​​know, to tell you something, ten singers and I maybe know a hundred.

For my hobby, for the love of cante.

I already had it as a child.

My brothers and my colleagues would go to play soccer or on the street and I would listen to cante.

That was my game, putting on my records.

I would get into the car with the tapes and spend three hours alone while I was driving listening to cante.

With the car stopped, of course.

Q.- Do you think that at some point the couple will be heard as much as before?

A.-

That depends on the fans, the voice and the people who call it.

But the song is very popular.

I'm completely sure that any person, old or young, you put a nice couplet song and they like it.

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Q.- Maybe you put a couplet on it and they like it, but it is more difficult for that person to hear a couplet.

Is not the same

R.-

If you get together with me and I put you music, that stays with you.

I will explain it to you and you like it because there is musical culture in your house, in a good sense of the word, and then you search.

But if in childhood there is not much importance of music, that you put whatever it is because there is a birthday, for fun or for dancing, it is very difficult for this person to tend to listen, to care about real music, by ear .

So what are you going to do?

Well, be in a disco or in the car and put on music to drink or to hang out.

Another thing is to put music to enjoy music, which is different and has nothing to do with it.

Right now we have everything at hand.

If you want to listen to music, you can do research just like I do.

I often don't play flamenco.

I see someone I don't know at all and I give it, listen to it, and worry.

I care about that music because it makes me enjoy it and makes me enlarge my musical world.

Q.- And what does music have to have for you to like it?

A.-

It has to have sensitivity, melody, rhythm and, if it is a free thing, it has to have heart and truth.

And you don't have to pretend.

Love is not intended, I can not prepare a love you.

I love you comes out of the moment, it is not the same to say I love you pretended than one of the moment, that you do not expect it.

It's pretty, but it's not the same.

Q.- And rap, for example, do you like it?

A.-

I like it when it has a good message and it is true that sometimes it also has a good melody and a good rhythm behind it.

But, for example, technically speaking rap is not sung.

Rap can be done by anyone as long as they have the ability to write and speak.

Of rhythm and rhyme.

I like the message it gives and I like it in many rappers that I hear that they have a very good rhythm, how they place the words.

Q.- And reggaetón?

It's what you hear the most now

R.-

Well, I like reggaeton because it has hesitation, it has roneo, it has youth.

I like it for that, because it has mischief.

It is true that many times they go overboard with the lyrics, that I say: 'Son, it doesn't take that much either.

That I put you here, that I leave you there.

It's not to get like that. '

But it's true that I don't listen to that much either, why am I going to fool you, I'm not into reggaeton.

Q.- How is a day in your life?

What do you do that someone your age can do?

R.-

Normally I am very deep inside, I am always with my cante.

For example, I like to ride in the car because I have my tape and I take my little turns, I listen to my cante, I pick up my guitar ... But always with music, there is not a day when I do not listen to music.

Q.- And in addition to music?

R.-

I like to write, but hey, that's about music.

Now you can't, but before I played futsal.

I don't have many hobbies, on second thought and if I'm honest.

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Q.- Come on, you live by and for music

A.-

Yes, I have a great time.

It is devotion.

And then with the family.

I visit my parents, I am at home with them, I enjoy it.

I sit down, I speak to them.

I spend two or three hours.

Take it easy, with my guitar, and little else.

Q.- Many point you out as the great promise of flamenco, how does it influence you?

Do you feel pressure

A.-

It gives you a certain responsibility.

And when one has a responsibility, the word is already telling you.

But whenever they speak well of you, it is a gift to the heart.

Q.- When it comes to making music, does the weight that legacy and tradition have in the world of flamenco conditions you?

A.-

Not because music has no limits.

We have a fabulous legacy in flamenco.

There have been incredible artists that the art of chapó flamenco has given us, so that must be respected.

It is like when there is an old house that is very beautiful.

You say, why am I going to throw it away, if it is better to restore it.

The best thing is to make it good, enrich it and sanitize it.

Within the legacy, what I try to do is clean up, in a good interpretation of the word, what is already a bit rusty.

Q.- Where would you like to go?

R.-

I have never set a goal because it comes alone.

All you have to do is take the best care of what God has given you, the gift you have.

And if it were to ask the man with the lamp something, I would ask him to bring young people, who are the future, closer to flamenco and cante, because it is very beautiful.

It is not because I am a singer, but I would like the youth to listen to flamenco, to listen to the lyrics, what it says, the message, the melody.

If they are good, they would be better.

Q.- For your part, how can you get young people to listen to more flamenco?

A.-

Much has already been achieved.

Camarón, Enrique Morente and maestro Paco have brought many young people closer to flamenco.

To a lot.

It is achieved that way.

With words of now that speak of what is happening, with letters with which they feel identified and are easy to hear.

Over there, I think so.

And also with the help of the media.

If many times they put something in front of you, in the end you look at it.

If nobody tells you to look at it, you have to look at it and it costs more.

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