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Ricardo -> RE: Opera or Flamenco (Nov. 1 2006 6:58:30)
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I always liked singers that sing out loud and hold the note, with a lot of balls, you know? Started I guess with pop/rock on the radio, triumphant loud refrains with high notes. Later I was amazed at Metal singers holding high notes. Then in the Amadeus movie I really liked how the busty chick was belting out those high notes and cool scales. I did not mind opera at all, if the singer was strong and in tune and in rhythm.
In college, at the time I got into cante, I was dating an opera singer. I don't like the exaggerated vibrato either, unless it is done with rhythmic control. Those beats need to go with the music. That is how I subconsciously prefer one vocalist to another I think for opera, and singers in general probably. (I realized this later of course). I forced this opera chick to listen to some cante. She was impressed by Maria Vargas and Paquera. I dumped her because she said she did not like Paco's tremolo. I knew from then on the girls I dated would have to at least be into flamenco.
One of the first cantaors I heard that I loved and still like, was El Moro, Indio Gitano. Very gutzy harsh sound, very exotic to me at the time. I really liked the range of color the different voices of cante had. Tauromagia and the movie "Flamenco" by Saura were great for introducing the range of vocal colors flamenco offers, to people coming into flamenco as guitar fans first. (I like some Camaroneros, but the color nowadays is very similar). I loved torchering my college roomates by watching Agujetas do martinete over and over.
Of course I still like those powerful voices. I like Terremoto jr, nowadays. Jerez singers in general. I was impressed by Poveda. I am not picky so much the sound of the voice as HOW they sing, if they project with balls. Quiet sexy singing is cute when girls do it, like jewel or Pastori or Estrella, but it does not do it for me like the singers the really yell and hold the high notes (Paquera, Maria Vargas, Esperanza Fernandez, etc). I listen to music loud, like I want my car windows to break on the high note.
Ricardo
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