SONIDOS BLANCOS

 

JÓVENES MAESTROS
Juan Valderrama, a wise young singer, with an illustrious flamenco surname, shares the stage with one of the greatest figures in singing to come from Huelva, Arcángel. Youth and tradition, a love of the art, thanks to both of them this is going to be an historic night.

Most flamenco singers begin in the arte jondo by singing precisely that, flamenco, and later evolve towards other genres such as the copla or a fusion with other folk music, international in most cases. Valderrama, on the contrary, inclined towards pop music from the start of his career, collaborating with figures such as Ana Belén, Joaquín Sabina and José Luís Perales. After going into pop music in depth, he surprised his followers with a work which was a fusion of flamenco and oriental sounds from countries such as Egypt and Turkey, and now he has left aside the success he achieved as a singer and composer to become a flamenco singer, one amazingly wise for his age. He is a great interpreter of Tarantas and Malagueñas, he has managed to recover some primitive styles such as the Trilleras and is at ease in the Cadiz styles, without forgetting the beautiful “cantes de ida y vuelta”.

His concept of flamenco is different, Valderrama sings for himself, constantly seeking the beauty and sweetness of what he calls “white sounds”. Valderrama is an interpreter of white sounds, not black ones. This is a new, revolutionary concept in an art that in recent years has suffered from a lack of variety. His vocal technique is personal and unmistakable. The repertoire of his new work is a collection of songs in which tradition and the avant garde coincide quite naturally. Tangos, seguiriyas, tarantas, alegrías and coplas, all with his personal imprint.

Sonidos Blancos, the title of his next disc and of this show, is a total vindication of an artist who, having taken his father’s characteristic technique as a basis, has constructed his own personality without renouncing his origins. A show in which both fans and the uninitiated will enjoy that open, universal music which is flamenco and which few know as he does.