Sometimes we judge the worth of\u00a0cantaores<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0cantaoras<\/i>\u00a0according to their discography. Yet, there were\u00a0cantaores<\/i>\u00a0who never recorded anything but were even better than those who did. Antonio Peana, the guitarist of Seville\u2019s Macarena district, once told me that Antonio Silva\u00a0El Portugu\u00e9s<\/i>\u00a0was a great singer, but never recorded anything because his voice wasn\u2019t commercial or suitable for the wider public. Then again, Manuel Escacena didn\u2019t have a commercial voice either, but he recorded several albums, and that was also the case of Fernando el Herrero and Pepe el de la Matrona.<\/p>\n
There are several historic\u00a0cantaores<\/i>\u00a0of Jerez who have fallen into oblivion. We wrote a few days ago about Juan Ram\u00edrez, and today is the turn of the celebrated Carapiera, whose actual name was Jos\u00e9 Ni\u00f1o Loreto and was a cousin of Manuel Torres. Carapiera was born two years after Manuel, in 1882, so they grew up together. Since he never recorded anything, it\u2019s hard to really tell how his voice and his singing style was. Apparently, he sounded a lot like Torres, kind of metallic and nasal, something characteristic in that family from Jerez. Once again, we know about his style of\u00a0soleares<\/i>\u00a0via Agujetas El Viejo, like was the case with Juan Ram\u00edrez, although other\u00a0cantaores<\/i>\u00a0have also recorded those\u00a0soleares<\/i>, and even Antonio Mairena was after Agujetas Sr. for a while, trying to get the lyrics from him.<\/p>\n
Por lo que yo voy mirando
\nYo no he tira\u00edto pieras
\npoquito me est\u00e1 faltando.<\/i><\/p>\n
By what I\u2019ve seen, His style of\u00a0sole\u00e1<\/i>\u00a0had a very distinct and lively rhythm, almost like that of the\u00a0buler\u00edas para bailar<\/i>\u00a0or the old\u00a0canti\u00f1as<\/i>\u00a0of Sanl\u00facar, also known by Ram\u00f3n Medrano, who sometime told me about Carapiera and his eccentricities, another characteristic of the Loreto family from Jerez\u2019s San Miguel district, who were almost all a little crazy.<\/p>\n This Gypsy\u00a0cantaor<\/i>, Carapiera, died in Jerez, on Acebuche Street, on April 18, 1931, two years before Manuel Torres. Someone who listened to him sing in Seville, attending a party with his cousin, told me that, when he was inspired, Carapiera had no match.<\/p>\n Translated by P. Young<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes we judge the worth of\u00a0cantaores\u00a0and\u00a0cantaoras\u00a0according to their discography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-archivo","tag-carapiera-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nI haven\u2019t thrown any stones
\nBut I\u2019m just about<\/span><\/p>\n