ANTONIO CARMONA: OBRAS SON AMORES (SPAIN, MADRID)

ANTONIO CARMONA: 'OBRAS SON AMORES'

Antonio Carmona presents at the Festival his new solo work, Obras son Amores [Works that are Love]. Slowly cooked for the past years, it tastes more of Spain than his two first albums, mainly due to its being conceived between Miami and Madrid. It was nominated to the Latin Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year. It includes memorable songs that maintain Antonio Carmona’s signature, though it distances itself from his previous works to offer a lively proposal, full of unexplored sounds and new melodies. It provides, with an unmistakable freshness and an irresistible personality, a show endowed with infinite nuances, states, sensations and flavors.

Alongside his brother Juan and his cousin Carlos playing the guitar, this work contains a special composition, “Mencanta”, dedicated to his father Juan Carmona, the tocaor Juan Habichuela (1933-2016), to whom he sings and remembers in a luminous, cheerful and positive rumba.

The Artist

Granada-native Antonio Carmona belongs to a gypsy flamenco dynasty started by his great-grandfather, “Habichuela el Viejo”. Since he was a kid he was surrounded by well-known flamenco singers and musicians such as Camarón and Paco de Lucía. At the beginning of the ‘90s he joined Ketama. After the group’s break-up in 2004, he developed his solo career with the album Vengo Venenoso, which won him the Golden Disc in Spain. In 2011, he released De noche, in which he collaborated with Nelly Furtado and Concha Buika.