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darylcrisp -> RE: I just bought this Blanca (Feb. 26 2025 5:21:11)
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Btw, Kai Narezo is located in Spain? I thought he was from the West coast, Usa.
from the FlamencoExplained site:
Kai learned flamenco the old-fashioned way, by taking lessons with great guitarists in New York and Spain and spending hundreds (maybe thousands?) of hours in dance studios. He’d been playing flamenco for almost 10 years – 2 of them in Spain – when he decided to get some formal music education, so he got a scholarship to Berklee and managed to graduate in 2 years. Berklee taught him how to talk about music in a way that seems to make sense to a lot of people.
While in Boston he began gigging constantly, both as a soloist and accompanist, in addition to teaching and recording.
After graduating Kai moved back to NYC, where he began to teach at the American Institute of Guitar, where he had initially studied with Dennis Koster, and gigging all over New York.
After 9-11 Kai moved to Los Angeles, where he continued gigging and teaching and also opened Universal Exports, a small recording studio in Hollywood. Among other recording gigs, Kai recorded the first 1,200 videos for the Guitar Salon International YouTube channel. He also recorded two albums of his own music during this time.
In L.A. Kai taught at Pasadena City College and CSU Dominguez Hills, as well as teaching at CSU’s Summer Arts course, first in California and for the last five years in Granada. And he taught many many private students.
In 2020 Kai and Tara got married and pulled up stakes to set up Flamenco Explained headquarters in Granada, Spain, where they live and work now.
In addition to Dennis, some of the important guitarist/teachers in Kai’s life have been Juan Fernandez, Miguel Angel Cortes, Enrique de Melchor, El Viejin and David Cerreduela.
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