Why can't Rosalía be the new Lola Flores?

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Many people participate in

the documentary

, and with their memories and their opinions the unique personality (underline unique) of

is rebuilt

, and incidentally they tell truly incredible anecdotes, like that first trip to New York when she flew with her parents and her sister Carmen and the dogs and even a bird in her cage (the sister exclaims that the bird is silly, but she is the only one who says it) and that they cooked in the bathtub of their hotel room because US food They didn't like it and that the

published a review with the phrase

And that that, like so many other things, she invented it to give herself importance, that she was a pharaoh for that.

Those who contribute the most are the experts on

the world to

, in addition to Lolita, Rosario and Carmen Flores, of course. But a lot of young artists also participate in the documentary who could be considered, each in their own way, insert gif of quotation marks, heirs of the spirit of Lola Flores.

And this is perhaps the most interesting question of the four-chapter documentary series that Movistar + broadcasts every Thursday and which is directed by Israel del Santo, which has previously done

,

and

. The point is that the series serves to remind the older public of the definition of charisma that this exceptional woman personified, but, above all,

the genius of an artist who was an icon that broke everything artistically and in everything else.

But since Lola Flores died in 1995 and time comes to erase everything just as sand castles are knocked over by the waves, it has been years since

has been heard

to describe (condemn) a new singer. .

Lolita always says, and she does it with an almost fanatical conviction, that there has never been and will never be anyone like her mother, and as in so many other things, Lolita is right.

Rosalía, María José Llergo, Rosario La Tremendita, C Tangana and Mala Rodríguez participate in the series, as well as the Argentine Nathy Peluso, all of them young stars who have offered heterodox visions of Spanish popular song with their music.

All of them possible beneficiaries of the comparison.

Rosalía, at the Grammy gala, last February.

But

.

And that does not have so much to do only with the musical or with the talent or the art, not even with the duende, with which the documentary starts precisely.

As an interpreter, Lola Flores had a metaphysical ability to be possessed by the song, to express the truth of music beyond sanity:

, and she expressed them with a power and with a freedom. sweeping formal.

That is well explained in the first chapter of the series when his way of dancing while singing Manolo Caracol is described.

But it is not that.

Being

the song has been achieved by many other artists, it is something very valuable, an exceptional quality, but not unique.

Lola Flores is unique and there will be no other like it for everything else that is remembered so well in the series. The extreme poverty of his childhood in Jerez. Mischief as an elemental survival strategy. The miserable underworld of postwar entertainment, so lumpen, so sinister. The

she suffered, being in her twenties, by Manolo Caracol, her lover 14 years her senior. The

before age 30. Consumption of

in the early days of success. The decision to sleep with a businessman for 50,000 pesetas ("Only a whore can call another whore a whore", contributes Mala Rodríguez) ... And to tell it all publicly, with that sparkle in her eyes, that almost insane eagerness for the challenge.

All of this forms an unrepeatable vital cartography.

And that's why

.

Does that mean that you have to go through a thousand hardships to be a great artist?

Absolutely.

You can be a giant and differential singer like Rosalía by going to dance class every day (Lola learned dancing as a child in her father's bar and asking drunks for a peseta).

You can be everything as an artist with an orderly life full of comforts.

What you can't do is be Lola Flores.

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