METÁFORA

 

VAINILLA AND CHOCOLATE
An explosive mixture, a taste for exquisite palates: vanilla and chocolate, wisdom and knowledge. Lole Montoya , since the seventies a gypsy goddess of flamenco singing, the tenderest and most sensitive quejío, with a very young artist full of wisdom, fight and love: María Toledo...Women singing, great, two worlds singing on one evening.

In Suma Flamenca Lole is presenting her third solo work Metáfora which was nominated for a Latin Grammy as the best flamenco album of 2008 and included the collaboration of great artists such as Vicente Amigo or Alejandro Sanz. With this disc Lole once again performs flamenco with content, recovering lyrics by Manuel Molina and José Acebedo.

Among the songs which make up Metáfora, there are themes like La plazuela, some bulerías dedicated to Lole’s father; the alegrías Brisa de la mar, and the tangos Canto al silencio, among others.

As regards the authorship of the songs, as well as that composed by Alejandro Sanz whch gives the album its title, the singer will be performing two songs by Felipe Campuzano, accompanied by the Cuban musician Pepe Rivero, who also performs on La masa, a song with lyrics by Silvio Rodríguez.

For the production, Lole has the collaboration on stage of some of the most charismatic women in her family, including Carmelilla Montoya, her daughter Alba Molina, and her sisters, Angelita and Andina Montoya.

Lole Montoya’s proposal amply demonstrates her ability to move, to transmit, to connect with the public in the most intimate, charismatic way, even with audiences of almost 8,000 people as happened last July at the Festival of Music of the World in Sines (Portugal).

Lole doesn’t deceive, she recognizes herself, she is still one of the mythical stars of the flamenco firmament. Lole is still a reality.