The fact that the\u00a0Bienal de Flamenco<\/i>\u00a0has awarded the stage of the Lope de Vega theater for Ni\u00f1o de Elche to present his latest album,\u00a0Antolog\u00eda del cante Flamenco Heterodoxo<\/i>, goes to show how dead is this festival of Seville and how threatened flamenco still is. No less than the\u00a0Teatro Nacional Lope de Vega<\/i>. What has this famous singer accomplished to be granted such privilege? He has accomplished to sing badly, because he sings really bad, and, above all, he has accomplished to spend his time hating and insulting flamenco, and also labelling as fascist, uncultured and ignorant anyone who criticizes his\u00a0cante<\/i>, for lack of a better word, because\u00a0cante<\/i>\u00a0is something else.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Bienal<\/i>\u00a0will allow him to present his anthology, as he calls his latest album. Facing his obvious inability to sing even slightly well, he has pulled out from his sleeve this monstrosity and the festival of Seville will finance his presentation in the capital of Andalusia. He\u2019ll probably even get paid for it, I presume. Yes, a man who sang\u00a0por sole\u00e1<\/i>\u00a0on stage sitting on a toilet, and who wishes death to all flamenco critics who dislike his music, that is, most critics in this country.<\/p>\n
Ni\u00f1o de Elche wants to be the new Enrique Morente, that\u2019s his plan. Yet, he forgets one thing: the master from Granada knew how to sing, and he doesn\u2019t. To make anything serious in\u00a0cante flamenco<\/i>\u00a0it\u2019s necessary to be able to sing. So, what is his strategy? Discrediting in the social networks anyone who criticizes the things he does, in a style bordering the violent. He once wished me death. Although \u201cas a flamenco critic, not as a person\u201d, like he told me. Phew. That was before I had even written anything about him, because at the time I had never heard about this guy, I didn\u2019t know he existed. Why does he express so much hatred when talking about me, then? He hates flamenco critics and in his Facebook wall only uploads links to articles that praise him, typically by writers who don\u2019t have the slightest clue about flamenco.<\/p>\n
According to him, all flamenco critics are fascists. Since he\u2019s a bad singer (even as he\u2019s making money \u2013 but so does Bel\u00e9n Esteban) he tries to discredit whoever objects to his music. That is, he tries to annihilate the enemy, cut his head off, reminding us of you-know-who, the one who calls fascist those who don\u2019t see any value in what he does. I\u2019ve always ignored him, and that makes him even more angry. Ignored, yes, because I have no interest whatsoever in his music, and that greatly annoys him. Not long ago, he contacted me to smooth things out, I suppose in hopes of giving a good impression, so I would not criticize his so-called anthology. I kept notes about that conversation and I can tell you it\u2019s scary, because this guy is not right in the head. Besides, he\u2019s full of poison, and I still haven\u2019t been able to figure out why.<\/p>\n
Perhaps he hasn\u2019t yet come to terms with the fact he\u2019s a bad singer, and that makes him feel bad, even as he\u2019s able to make money and he\u2019s somehow famous. He doesn\u2019t like money and he\u2019d rather be acclaimed as a good traditional\u00a0cantaor<\/i>. That\u2019s it, he\u2019s tone-deaf and hates whoever doesn\u2019t shout \u201cOl\u00e9!\u201d to him even once. I suppose he thinks of himself as some misunderstood genius, I don\u2019t know. He thinks that everything he does now will be acclaimed fifty years from now, when he\u2019s no longer alive, and that\u2019s why he makes fun of flamenco, of flamenco critics and of traditional flamenco artists: because he\u2019s extremely frustrated for not being a\u00a0cantaor<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t planning to write anything about him, but Tuesday evening he attacked me in Facebook, viciously and aggressively, because I had posted in the wall of one of the organizers of Pamplona\u2019s \u201cFlamenco On Fire\u201d festival that Rosal\u00eda sang badly on purpose, to stand out. Saying that, just an opinion with a hint of irony, was enough for Ni\u00f1o de Elche to imply once again that I\u2019m a fascist. Incidentally, with the approval of David, co-founder of this festival in Navarra, who argued that flamenco is free. Sure, that\u2019s why he allowed the singer from Elche to insult me when I was exercising my freedom of expression.<\/p>\n
Certainly, what Ni\u00f1o de Elche does is great, even as I think it\u2019s terrible. That\u2019s why I seldom give my opinion. Besides, he\u2019s a gun-toting kid. Careful with that big-mouth.<\/p>\n
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