Miguel Poveda (Barcelona, 13 February 1973) HEHe has been singing to those who want to listen for 35 years. started as a professional singing to the tourists at the tables In Catalonia, in 1989, it’s about to explode as a world entertainment superpower. “Tablao was a great learning experience, said two and three passes each day. I didn’t care if they were tourists or not: I sang to the spirits who came there without tagging them.” This summer there are two concerts between us, one in the arena (June 17th, within La Malagueta, 101 MusicFest) and the other in the gardens of a legendary cave (August 5, Nerja Cave), but scenarios don’t condition your throat and heart; his business is the people, “people who voluntarily come to breathe with art”. “And I celebrate that more than my birthday,” Kantaor says.
Miguel Poveda begins his ten-year life (now the fifth) established in a quiet artistic and vibrant maturity. In the meantime, something Costa del Sol has a lot to do: “Malaga I have always loved it, I have great friends here and now my residence is in the province. I feel happy and peaceful here.” gifts his latest album ‘Diverso’, a job where he wants to “build bridges”: “I try to act in complete freedom and with all that has been attached to me over these years, with all this diversity that I grew up with, with different music that I can participate in, both in my neighborhood Badalona and later in Barcelona”. Willie Colón has songs, funk and orthodox jondo, is a dialogue between arts and genres to conclude that pinching is universal; A repertoire that is the result of travel, one of cantaor’s favorite activities: “It helps my personal development at all levels and of course I incorporate this knowledge into the music, it is very important to travel with the soul and wide… Thinking about the privilege of being on this planet and also empathizing with those in need We look in pairs to help”.
disinhibition
“Miscellaneous” is also a restriction. We asked Miguel Poveda when he looked back on his career whether he often said no to his creative impulses because of what others had to say. And it’s clear: “No, I’ve always done what I wanted, but it’s true that I was more worried about this. Now I continue to do what I believe in, but I expect nothing more than the result of being satisfied with the work done, even though it is a very difficult thing: There’s always something left that you could have fixed.”
A career past recording debuts as demanding as the openness of flamenco such as Nuevos Medios has been praised at major labels (even by non-jondo publications such as ‘Rockdelux’). projects in majors gaining more popularity; a path with the blow of an impulse that has no route or plan: “I don’t look at myself or analyze myself in that sense, I continue on my way and constantly change my skin as my body and soul speak to me”, provides.
And now body and soul asks listeners to sing”a repertoire ranging from the most traditional flamenco to his poetry Frederick [García Lorca] or the texts of Rafael de León or Antonio Gallardo” hopes they get excited with it. All it takes is, he says, “The heart is an instrument of feeling”.It’s about that in the end,” she concludes.
Flemish
Flamenco artists always talk about the need to preserve flamenco, but perhaps even more so is to publicize it. What does Poveda think? “What needs to be done is to give more value to historians, that they had the opportunity to make speeches and publish their books. so this art is increasingly being documented, among other things”defending the singer.
One of these branches of study is somewhat controversial: There was a seminar in Malaga a few weeks ago on the importance of black culture in shaping the roots of flamenco. obviouslythe gypsy community is the key to jondo, but recent historical research shows that She wasn’t the only one who attended his birth. The opinion of a cantaor who finds it more difficult to enter flamenco circles because he has no Andalusian parents is important. Are we ready for that discussion, that conversation? “Argument is something that gets more and more complex, confrontation takes more time and I avoid it. My family is not Andalusian, but that was my neighborhood and that’s how I grew up, in diversity”, the accommodating ditch.
Speaking of parents, Miguel Poveda has been one of the parents for 8 years. A boy named angel. Those who seek an artistic heir in him seem to sit and wait: “My son doesn’t think much of my music, it doesn’t feel like I’m going to call him right now. He’s in his own world as a kid”. And the father doesn’t seem to be worried. The fact that only two Spaniards, Rosalía, are on the last list of ‘Rolling Stone’, one of the top 200 vocalists in history, for example. and Rocío Dúrcal: “I care. not. I don’t know who decides on this list, but everyone has their own list. I’m sure it would be impossible not to have Camarón, Isabelita de Jerez or La Niña de los Peines”. I’m sure Miguel Poveda is in a lot of people.