{"id":1938,"date":"2014-12-18T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/diego-cigala-tango-and-flamenco-gods-sound\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:53:14","slug":"diego-cigala-tango-and-flamenco-gods-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/diego-cigala-tango-and-flamenco-gods-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Cigala &#8211; Tango and Flamenco:  God&#8217;s sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Modern &#8211; Nuevo Tango<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It is completely normal for debut albums like Gotan Project or Narcotango to overtake <strong> classical tango music<\/strong> in popularity<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><strong> Music from the 30&#8217;s and 40&#8217;s <\/strong>need time to <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>develop<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong> a connection within ourselves. But this is completely understandable and acceptable. Today I also like to dance to well-composed modern music.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when <strong><a title=\"Diego El Cigala\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diego_El_Cigala\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Cigala&#8217;s <\/a><strong> music<\/strong><\/strong> is brought up, even just to listen to? It&#8217;s a brutal combination of modern and nuevo tango music.\u00a0 Who is this man?<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1748\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/endretango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Diego-Cigala-Obelisco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1748\" class=\" wp-image-1748\" src=\"https:\/\/endretango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Diego-Cigala-Obelisco-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Cigala &amp; Obelisco\" width=\"368\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endretango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Diego-Cigala-Obelisco-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/endretango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Diego-Cigala-Obelisco-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/endretango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Diego-Cigala-Obelisco.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diego Cigala &amp; Obelisco<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Diego El Cigala<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The world famous flamenco singer was born in Madrid in 1968. Guitarists gave him the nickname &#8220;Cigala&#8221;, which can also be translated as: Diego the <a title=\"spindly one\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/spanish-english\/cigala\" target=\"_blank\">Cigala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His other nickname characterizes him perfectly : &#8220;<strong>the Sinatra of flamenco<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>His solo career began in 1997, with the recognition of his extremely expressive and intensive voice, which penetrates deep down to the bone. These amazing voice characteristics brought him great fame throughout the world.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Cigala and Tango<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In 2010 he traveled to Buenos Aires and established the album: Cigala and Tango, and in 2011 it won a <a title=\"Grammy d\u00edj\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_Grammy_Award_for_Best_Tango_Album\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grammy<\/strong> <\/a> award for best tango album. It&#8217;s up to you to decide if it is dancible! Overall, this blend of flamenco and tango is an exciting bundle of energy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Close your eyes,<\/strong> and turn up the volume. This first version will give you goosebumps:<\/p>\n<h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9TBBBBt4unA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Other Tango Versions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Close your eyes, turn up the volume! Goosebump II. version. This is the same music from 1971 by <a title=\"Roberto Goyeneche - En esta tarde gris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2rR15gv3gCo\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Goyeneche<\/a> in performance. This is rather for listening than dancing!<\/p>\n<p>Now open your eyes, and get up and dance! This next version is what we usually dance to: <a title=\"Anibal Troilo, Frnacisco Fiorentino - En esta tarde gris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKbQOtg6MAg\" target=\"_blank\">Anibal Troilo con Francisco Fiorentino: En esta tarde gris<\/a> from 1941.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in getting to know more of Diego Cigala&#8217;s music, here is the complete 2010 concert album, recoreded live in Buenos Airies. <a title=\"Diego Cigala &amp; tango 2010 concert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8HGzhsUuiY\" target=\"_blank\">Watch and listen to it here<\/a>. On this album there are world famous musicians such as the great bandeonist <strong>N\u00e9stor Marconi<\/strong> and the guitarist <strong><strong>Juanjo Dominguez<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally a few words about the dancer in the clip . Am I right when I say, that the male dancer strongly resembles the lead character <strong><strong>Pablo Veronra,<\/strong><\/strong> from the film <strong><strong>&#8220;The Tango Lesson&#8221;<\/strong><\/strong> ?\u00a0 Unfortunately I don&#8217;t know who he is. Any tips?<\/p>\n<p>Find more articles on<a title=\"Blog az \u00f6lel\u00e9sr\u0151l\" href=\"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/tango-blog\/\"> my blog site <\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego El Cigala &#8211; the Sinatra of flamenco The famous flamenco singer was born in 1968, and in 2010 broke onto the Tango scene with his album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[158,159],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-es","tag-diego-el-cigala-tango","tag-diego-cigala","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endretango.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}