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San Fernando Flamenco
There is a strong tradition of flamenco music
in San Fernando which may easily be traced back to the years
leading up to the Napoleonic-led invasion of Spain by France.
At that time, San Fernando was known as the Isla de Leon and
it is known that the first isleño flamenco singer juan
de Dios was born in the town in 1809 later in 1831 he would
perform with other well known flamenco artists, including
el Planeta and El Fillo. Although no records exist to support
the presumption there seems little doubt that the deeply rooted
flamenco tradition in San Fernando goes back much further.
The history of the style of flamenco singing in San Fernando
is similarly well documented from roughly the same time. The
gypsy singer Maria Fernandez known as Maria Borrico was the
first in a family dynasty of outstanding flamenco performers
including el Borrico el Viejo de la isla and la Bizca, whose
reputation for singing seguriyas was renowned. Their highly
distinctive renditions spawned many and varying interpretations
from numerous other local flamenco singers in subsequent generations.
The Fernandez family were famed for the purity of their style
of singing which retained the fullest force of its expression
even in the shortest songs. This type of seguiriya was referred
to as cante corto de la isla.
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