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How difficult it seems to me to write about the teacher and his art, writing of his friend.
His absence makes me shudder.
Impossible, it seems impossible, how we're going to make the idea of never again enjoy his art?, What we can never enjoy their great human values?
But he was energetic, full of life the last time I saw him the last time we talked on the phone.
Impossible, it seems impossible, can not be, someone please wake me, I should be sleeping.
All this must be part of a bad dream.
Please someone wake me at once.
I can not be objective, I would not, I can not be, does anyone can be objective when art flows to penetrate to the deepest part of your interior?
The best singer
Henry is part of my life since the beginning of my memories from my childhood when I always heard that in my house that Henry was a special singer, the kind that comes once every hundred years, of which they are able to create, to love and establish and develop through their infinite personality.
I can not be objective, I do not want, I can not be.
I was about five or six years old when they first hear her name with an anecdote that my father told me, and remembers each time you delve into this passion of ours that is flamenco.
As I said, my father, "Alfonso Niño, unionense singer, who enjoyed a certain prestige among the 50 and 70 and that for his love and dedication he had the opportunity to mingle with the most prestigious figures of the time, recalls a conversation with a special fondness Pepe Marchena, with whom he had a deep friendship for many years.
To celebrate the second National Song Contest by Cartageneras, in which the Master Teacher, acted like a star star out of competition with other singers such as Jacinto Almaden y Manolo the Malagueño.
Marchena, fixing his eyes on Morente, who competed, my father says:
"See that boy?, Do you know?", The answer that no, the teacher de Marchena said, "this young man is Henry Granaíno, and is the best singer I've ever heard, which will end all of us the day we are no longer here. "
Such a statement, the truth is that at that time was difficult to understand and, of course, cost me a few years and I always assimilate to the same question: What would it take to say that Marchena so emphatically?
When I was growing up, educating myself in singing, listening to countless singers, enjoying, laughing and crying with each of them when using the unique expression of a singer and a guitar I could feel all the joys, sorrows, nostalgia and melancholy of Art Flamenco, I understood.
Perhaps the young Pepe Marchena woke a new sentiment from Granada, so fresh and yet so old, which had a creative flavor of a time he had forgotten, or maybe it presaged a greatness that was yet to come?.
Any way whatsoever flattering words were spoken by one of the most important singers who gave the history of Flamenco.
The song enjoyed great singers in those years, but lacked the true creators and innovators, as in other times of yore.
when creating and personality was a clear and obvious sign on the masters of the genre.
I do not think Enrique Morente is the best singer of all time, or maybe yes, I know!, Just know that I find it impossible to think of the magnitude and significance of Flamenco Art Olimpo no figure.
Who else, would be responsible for updating the old lessons for current art that are adapted to all ability to feel, without chains to truncate its evolution!, How we intend to remain motionless in an art of fees down through time, immune to the passage of time?, No, please, maestro of Albayzin has a privileged place among the most important geniuses of flamenco and its name could only be understood as part of the mythology of Flamenco , like the Shrimp and Paco de Lucia, who would become the three great figures of our time, their names will be matched only geniuses like Silverio, Chacón, Tomás, El Torre, Vallejo, Pastora, Caracol, Mairena or own Marchena.
And is that something will have wine when we bless.
From Don Antonio Chacón no other singer has been able to provide as much creating the art of flamenco, playing with the melodic arch to create and recreate a new world of melismas and shades, enriched with such melodic turns us into a new concept unorthodox yes, but that comes from the deepest orthodoxy ... This established from the privileged position gives you the knowledge, the teaching that comes with the experience I formed you in the best universities of art and then enriched to an extent not yet understood by a few diehards who cling to notions of a past immovable, as if life had evolved over the years.
How would my dear friend José Manuel Gamboa, "Morente of the kingdom" enrichment.
Enrique lays the foundation for that future artists can develop without fear of pressure he was subjected from it all can sing externalizing feelings through music.
His singing was poetry and creative nature that poetry would come forth to the music scheduler to that moment with the feel of flamenco singing.
Enrique's footprint can be seen in our culture for years, just have to catch a bit on the current scene, as she moves flamenco today.
"Wow Harry, how much we have left, how many doors have opened."
Just two months after his performance in the competition of Cartagena, Henry returns to earth to participate in the V Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión, performance style of singing by tarantas was far from what the judges and organizers wanted to push those years as a prototype of unionenses songs, songs of mine.
The art of the young singer from Granada ended not being understood by the jurors at that time.
Experiences
But in those early years were to pass a thousand anecdotes that today we remember with nostalgia.
Some of them had the good fortune to experience them personally, others yet again would be my father who transmitted to me and stay on me with such force that I think of my own experiences.
60 In those years in which Henry would come to participate as a contestant in the "Festival Mining", he used to see always accompanied by the artists who passed through here, Bernardo de los Lobitos, Jacinto Almaden, with whom he had fought a great friendship in Madrid, Flores Gaditano, the Arrow of Cadiz ... and with his countrymen and Cobitos Manolo Avila, characters that would become characteristic of the Union of those years, not only for its artistic quality, but a thousand anecdotes about their circulate figures for the Union during the years that she attended.
One night Manuel Avila and Cobitos are hired to sing at a private party at which Henry was also invited.
Montefrío first teacher performs his songs, the usual repertoire, Malaga, Murcia, temporary, siguiriyas, granaínas, fandangos ... Someone in the audience asked to sing the youngest, to which Cobitos immediately responds, "You do not sing, that you do not know, and going to respectfully announces categorically "sorry gentlemen, but he is not ready, he can not sing because they know," nodding Manuel Avila, "no he did not, he does not know, boy you listen and learn" ...
It is recalled that in those years Henry had already formed in Madrid with some of the best teachers who lived in the capital and had been predicted by the great Marchena as "the singer who will kill us all when we're gone" ...
And it is his turn to Cobitos, following the refusal of both to Henry even raise his voice to sing not one "because, as I did not know" ... Cobitos sits in his chair and prepares to sing, the guitarist sings Exit to sing these soleares Triana of Portuguese descent Silverio school, "I wonder if I want and I tell you, not see / I love you more than my mother that misled people" and the silence of the night is heard in the courtyard where the stage had improvised a guest with whom nobody had a cricket ... Yes, a cricket who had joined the party, to the astonishment and laughter of those present.
Cricket singing the old Cobitos unhinged after several attempts, the sound of his singing made him not focus on the guitar or even what they wanted to sing, it was so unbearable you miss or the letter, and angry exclaimed: "No, I do not sing, can not sing here.
Let's see someone kill that cricket brings me desentonao "and so to the amazement of all present the party is over.
Enrique "not knowing" he had to return without singing and, worse, that night, after the rapture of Cobitos went without pay.
The next day would be hired only young Morente and who have already attended with only 23 years Henry gave a magnificent concert master and jondura loaded, and for those years from Granada was ahead of this art and his performance had to qualify as a retrospective , those who make history.
Too bad there are no sound recordings of the sung that night.
Fondly remembered years later when this story, Enrique, which escapes him a nice smile, accompanied with a slight laugh, he said: "Please Paco, how can I say that my dear Graná Cobitos gave a roll a cricket ".
Acknowledgments
His figure would find, however, in La Union a special affection and sometimes again at the Festival Gala with emphasis on the held on August 13, 1971 together with the brothers Antonio and Manuel Mairena, Chocolate, and La Fernanda and Bernarda Pearl among others.
It also would go to the cultural cycles driven by the Caja de Ahorros del Sureste accompanied by guitar Manzanita.
In this occasion we collect some great statements to the newspaper The News of January 25, 1973 in a wonderful interview guided by my dear friend, now dead, Tomás López Castelo, who through the pages of the newspaper created a serious Flamenco Chair awarded the journalism prize for the Chair of Flamenco Jerez
- Why do you look for new ways to sing?
"Just because I do not have fees or patterns for the songs, I try to get to the people and that's what I'm getting.
"Henry is said that you murdered the song ...
"I have not killed the song, what happens is that the castles mounted not agree, of course I have great appreciation, a great reverence for these teachers of singing such as Antonio Mairena, Pepe de la Matrona, Selles et al.
But that does not mean anything that I have and want to make my personal style, and that patterns of song were made by singers and those who followed him took the same path.
- Have you thought that with your new discoveries, in the song, you can confuse the fans and have a strong criticism of it?
"I have called" the murderer of the song and others the "Al Capone" of singing.
I do not think my style is a scandal for the fans.
What I attempt is to give my style and my way and that's what I'm doing, and test them is that I love listening and applauding me.
Later, over the years, would be honored at the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas 2004 edition being taught and received the "Golden Castillete", the highest honorary award given by the Festival, coinciding with the most important moment this, their golden wedding.
The friend
Enrique always made you feel important as if you had an important place in his life, we are transmitting to their sensitivity to each of those he considered his friends were part of his universe, I think we were all important to him and showed us with respect, appreciation and sincere gift that was born with him.
I personally hooked his way of being, to my mind come with love some of his actions towards me I prefer to remember them in private.
Henry was and is a universal artist, but above all it was a great person to those who will always remember with affection, intelligence, unusual and excessive sensitivity, how could understand if it was not his work that way? .
I think his greatness has covered a host of new creations, it would take a thousand lives to develop artistically everything I had inside her concern to improve every day.
I can not describe how I felt when it appeared a new album of his, that sense of open, leaf through and listen is something I can not explain with words, never knew what we would find, was a new world full of music that the teacher offered us who would like to feel, who we would enjoy it.
Each of his actions created a special feeling in me, not knowing that misfortune was at hand, came to him as if this might be the last one ... and unfortunately this performance unionense Festival in its Golden Jubilee, it would be the last see on stage.
That night, my son five years, I said: "Henry are the best singing.
My father always listen to your albums "and did I miss the laughter you loosen up at the time, nor your kind words ...
I remember with special affection that conversation for some time in the Palacio de Congresos de Granada in the tribute to your dear Loles del Cerro projects where you said you had to sing miners, who would have made me look forward to your projects completed and that these songs of my land which I will see both represented in a new work of yours for posterity.
O that night, very recently, where you were interviewed for the newspaper La Verdad, after the interview, you are energetic, full of life, illusions and your singing is pure, as only you knew it, flowed between us.
Flamingo elves flew by the mining town, giving us the essence of your art sensitive.
Your song could be felt in the privacy provided with special magnetism that only you could transmit, transporting us to that magical moment of feelings that come back again very hard to feel.
Dear friend, dear Master, you know what I admired and admire you, can not imagine how proud I felt that I consider your friend.
THE BELLS OF GLORY
SOUNDS BY SOLEÁ
MORENTE BE SUNG
WITH THE BIG AIR.
Paco Paredes.
Source: Artículo de opinión
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