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Ketama
Ketama is a Spanish musical group in the new flamenco tradition. Fusing flamenco with other musical forms ( salsa, Brazilian music, reggae, funk, jazz), they created a style that lies somewhere between flamenco and pop salsa. Their music drew as much criticism as praise because purists did not like the change from traditional flamenco, but the group won over the young public. They continued to fuse other music in, and their 2002 album, ''Dame la Mano'', added hip hop and house music. History Band formation Ketama formed in Madrid in the early eighties, taking its name from a well-known valley in Morocco. The initial line-up featured José Soto Sorderita (guitar), Juan Carmona (guitar) and Ray Heredia (vocals). Each of the three came from flamenco dynasties: the Heredias of Madrid, the Habichuelas of Granada and the Carmonas of Jerez. Heredia left the band shortly afterwards, and was eventually replaced by Antonio Carmona (lead singer) and José Miguel Carmona (guitar). T ...
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Toma Ketama!
''Toma Ketama!'' is a studio album released by Spanish band Ketama on September 12, 2000. The album was produced by Cachorro López and earned the band a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album. Track listing This information adapted from Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus .... Certifications References {{Authority control 2000 albums Ketama albums 2000s Spanish-language albums Albums produced by Cachorro López ...
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De Akí A Ketama
''De Aki A Ketama'' is a fusion flamenco album by Spanish band Ketama. It gave the group mainstream recognition within Spain. The album sold over 600,000 copies. Track listing All tracks by Ketama Ketama is a Spanish musical group in the new flamenco tradition. Fusing flamenco with other musical forms ( salsa, Brazilian music, reggae, funk, jazz), they created a style that lies somewhere between flamenco and pop salsa. Their music drew ... except where noted. # "No estamos lokos (kalikeño)" – 4:34 # "Verdadero" – 4:13 # "Se dejaba llevar por ti" (Antonio Vega) – 4:18 # "Loko" – 5:30 # "Flor de lis" (Djavan) – 4:35 # "La cuesta la cava (Ketama)" – 4:34 # "Acaba de nacer" – 3:42 # "Djamana Djana" – 4:17 # "Problema" – 4:21 # "Vengo de Borrachera" – 4:31 # "Vente Pá Madrid" – 4:47 # "Bulería del Olivar" – 6:33 Personnel *Valentín Álvarez – Saxophone *Pedro Barceló – Bateria *Antonio Carmona – Adaptation, Musician *Jose Miguel Carmona ...
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Antonio Carmona
Antonio Carmona Amaya (born 21 May 1965) is a Spanish gitano singer of flamenco. He also has French nationality. From the early 1980s, he was a member of the Spanish flamenco-fusion group Ketama,De Noche, el nuevo disco de Antonio Carmona
which he joined after main vocalist Ray Heredia left. The band also included José Soto, also known as "Sorderita". Ketama in its latest set-up included Antonio Carmona as main vocalist along with his brother, Juan José Carmona Amaya, known as "El Camborio", and his cousin, José Miguel Carmona Niño, known as "Josemi". After the break-up of the band in 2004, Carmona started his solo career and released a series of solo albums, including his debut ''Vengo Venenoso'' in 2006 on Universal Records. He also collaborated with
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Songhai (album)
''Songhai'' is a fusion flamenco album by Spanish band Ketama, working in collaboration with Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, British double bassist Danny Thompson, and other musicians. Track listing ;Side A #"Jarabi" – (Traditional, arranged by Toumani Diabaté) – 3:40 #"Mani Mani Kuru" – (Toumani Diabaté) – 5:29 #"Caramelo" – (Juan Carmona) – 4:18 #"A Toumani" – (José Soto) – 3:28 ;Side B #"Vente pa Madrid" – (Antonio Carmona, José Miguel Carmona) – 4:34 #"Africa" – (Toumani Diabaté) – 5:23 #"A mi tía Marina" – (José Miguel Carmona) – 3:36 #"Ne Ne Koitaa" – (Traditional, arranged by Toumani Diabaté) – 3:17 Personnel * Toumani Diabaté – kora, vocals *Ketama: ** José Soto – vocals, guitar ** Juan Carmona – guitar, handclaps; guitar solo (track 3) ** Antonio Carmona – percussion, guitar; vocals (track 5) ** José Miguel Carmona – guitar, emulator; vocals (track 5) * Danny Thompson Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 ...
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Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté ( ; 10 August 1965 – 19 July 2024) was a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he was involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles of music. In 2006, a panel commissioned by ''The Independent'' named him one of the fifty best African artists across media. In its obituary, ''The Times'' described him as "a bold and innovative musical visionary". Biography Diabaté was born on 10 August 1965 in Bamako, the capital of Mali, five years after the country had gained its independence from France. He came from a long family tradition of players of the kora, a 21-string west African harp-like instrument. His father, Sidiki Diabaté, recorded the first-ever kora album, in 1970. His mother, Nene Koita, was a singer. His family's oral tradition tells of 70 generations of musicians preceding him in a patrilineal line. His cousin Sona Jobarteh was the first female professional ...
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Flamenco Groups
Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia. In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to a variety of both contemporary and traditional musical styles typical of southern Spain. Flamenco is closely associated to the gitanos of the Romani ethnicity who have contributed significantly to its origination and professionalization. However, its style is uniquely Andalusian and flamenco artists have historically included Spaniards of both gitano and non-gitano heritage. The oldest record of flamenco music dates to 1774 in the book ''Las Cartas Marruecas'' (The Moroccan Letters) by José Cadalso. The development of flamenco over the past two centuries is well documented: "the theatre movement of sainetes (one-act plays) and tonadillas, popular song books and song sheets, customs, studies of dances, and ...
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Danny Thompson
Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Martyn. For four years, between 1964 and 1967, he was a member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, led a trio that included guitarist John McLaughlin, and was a founding member of the British folk-jazz band Pentangle. Since 1987, he has also recorded four solo albums. He converted to Islam in 1990. Biography and career Thompson was born in Teignmouth, Devon, England. His father, a miner, joined the Royal Navy at the start of World War II and was lost in action whilst crewing submarines. When Thompson was aged 6, the family moved to London and he was brought up in the working-class area of Battersea. At school he played competitive football and was a junior for Chelsea, the team he has supported ever since. Whilst at school he learn ...
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Flamenco
Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the Gitanos, gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Region of Murcia, Murcia. In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to a variety of both contemporary and traditional musical styles typical of southern Spain. Flamenco is closely associated to the gitanos of the Romani people, Romani ethnicity who have contributed significantly to its origination and professionalization. However, its style is uniquely Andalusian and flamenco artists have historically included Spaniards of both gitano and non-gitano heritage. The oldest record of flamenco music dates to 1774 in the book ''Las Cartas Marruecas'' (The Moroccan Letters) by José Cadalso. The development of flamenco over the past two centuries is well documented: "the theatre movement of sainetes (one-act plays) and tonadillas, popular song books and song s ...
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New Flamenco
New flamenco (or ''nuevo flamenco'') or flamenco fusion is a musical genre that was born in Spain, starting in the 1980s. It combines flamenco guitar virtuosity and traditional flamenco music with musical fusion (with genres like jazz, blues, rock, rumba, and years later reggaeton, hip hop, or electronic music). Origins Spain in the 1970s had changed in politics and society after the democratic transition. Traditional flamenco artists, being displaced in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s by rock-and-roll and influenced by the variety of musical styles that came from the rest of Europe and America, created the so-called "flamenco fusion". José Antonio Pulpón was the decisive instigator of this fusion. He urged the cantaor Agujetas to collaborate with the Andalusian rock group Pata Negra, and fostered the artistic union between Paco de Lucía and Camarón de la Isla, who gave flamenco a creative boost, representing the definitive break with Mairena's conservatism . Camarón ...
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballad (music), ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the Call and response (music), call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in Pitch (music), pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffle note, shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove (popular music), groove. Blues music is characterized by its lyrics, Bassline, bass lines, and Instrumentation (music), instrumen ...
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Red Hot Organization
''Red Hot Organization'' (RHO) is a non-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization with goals to promote diversity through equal access to healthcare through pop culture. Since its inception in 1989, over 400 artists, producers and directors have contributed to over 21 compilation albums, related television programs, and media events to raise donations totaling more than 10 million dollars for HIV / AIDS relief and awareness around the world. The Red Hot Organization Collection was donated to Fales Library in New York City in 2006. Early history First founded as King Cole, Inc. by Leigh Blake and John Carlin, Red Hot was established in 1989 in response to the AIDS epidemic and its impact on artists and creators within New York City. Carlin, who previously pursued a career as an entertainment lawyer, expressed the wish to create an " AIDS charity album" to pay tribute to American singer/songwriter Cole Porter. In 1990, the project was released, entitled '' Red Hot + Blu ...
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