Enrique Morente

Singer

Enrique Morente Cotelo (25 Dizember 1942 – 13 Dizember 2010) wis a Spaingie flamenco sangster an a controversial figur athin the warld o contemporar flamenco. efter his orthodox beginnins, he plungit intae experimentalism, writin new melodies for cante (flamenco singin) an jammin wi muisickers o aw styles, athoot renooncin his ruits in tradeetional flamenco singin, which he kept on cultivatin.[1][2] In spite o severe creeticism frae the maist "purist" amangst the creetics an public,[2][3] he wis aiblins the maist influential contemporar flamenco sangster, who no anerly innovatit, but it coud be said that he creatit tradeetion an aw: some of his cantes hae been performit bi ither sangsters such as Camarón de la Isla, Mayte Martín, Carmen Linares, Miguel Poveda, Segundo Falcón an Arcángel. He is the faither o flamenco sangster Estrella Morente an aw.

Enrique Morente
Background information
Birth nameEnrique Morente Cotelo
Born25 December 1942(1942-12-25)
Granada, Spain
Deid13 December 2010(2010-12-13) (aged 67)
Madrid, Spain
GenresFlamenco
ThriftSangster, sangwriter
Years active1960–2010
Wabsteidhttp://www.enriquemorente.com

Filmografie

  • Flamenco. Directit bi Carlos Saura (1995)
  • Morente sueña La Alhambra. Directit bi José Sánchez-Montes (2005)
  • Iberia. Directit bi Carlos Saura (2005)
  • Morente. Directit by Emilio R. Barrachina (2011)

Discografie

  • Cante flamenco (1967)
  • Cantes antiguos del flamenco (1969)
  • Homenaje flamenco a Miguel Hernández (1971)
  • Se hace camino al andar (1975)
  • Homenaje a Don Antonio Chacón (1977)
  • Despegando (1977)
  • Morente en vivo, Díscolo, (1981), illegal recordin live
  • Sacromonte (1982)
  • Cruz y Luna (1983)
  • Esencias flamencas (1988)
  • Morente – Sabicas (1990)
  • Enrique Morente en la Casa Museo de Federico García Lorca de Fuentevaqueros (1990); Republished (2001)
  • Misa flamenca (1991)
  • Negra, si tú supieras (1992)
  • Alegro, Soleá y Fantasía del Cante Jondo (1995)
  • Omega (1996)
  • Morente – Lorca (1998)
  • El pequeño reloj (2003)
  • Morente sueña la Alhambra (2005), Mute Records
  • Pablo de Málaga (2008)

References