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This week, on Solera Flamenca, we are bringing you Miguel \u00c1ngel Cort\u00e9s\u00b4s music, a true master of the flamenco guitar, with a consolidated career both as a soloist and accompanying other performers. Gifted with dazzling creativity, it is no wonder he has become one of outstanding artists in today\u00b4s flamenco world.
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[vc_row][vc_column width=’1\/2′]This week, on Solera Flamenca, we are bringing you Miguel \u00c1ngel Cort\u00e9s\u00b4s music, a true master of the flamenco guitar, with a consolidated career both as a soloist and accompanying other performers. Gifted with dazzling creativity, it is no wonder he has become one of outstanding artists in today\u00b4s flamenco world.<\/p>\n

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For this recording, Miguel \u00c1ngel Cort\u00e9s works with the clapping and cheering (palmas y jaleos) of Diego Amaya (Chicuelo\u00b4s son) and Juan Mateo, a true genius of rhythm, who has worked with artists such as Chicuelo, or Juan Ram\u00f3n Caro, among many others.<\/p>\n

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Miguel \u00c1ngel Cort\u00e9s was born on 26 January 1972, in Granada, Espa\u00f1a. He joined the world of flamenco through the Zambra del Sacromonte at the early age of 8. Only aged 14, he started touring around Europe, Japan, the USA\u2026 working with Mariquilla, Manolete, Javier Bar\u00f3n, Antonio Canales, Juan Ram\u00edrez, Beatriz Mart\u00edn, Eva La Yerbabuena and Juan Andr\u00e9s Maya. Soon later, along with his brother Paco Cort\u00e9s, he would join the singer Carmen Linares for her various tours in Middle East, Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n

All along his career, he has stood out when accompanying flamenco artists as prestigious as Enrique Morente, Carmen Linares, Jos\u00e9 Merc\u00e9, Chano Lobato, Jos\u00e9 de La Tomasa, Chiquetete, El Pele, Miguel Poveda, Estrella Morente y Marina Heredia, and some others. He is currently the regular guitarist of the singers Esperanza Fern\u00e1ndez, Arc\u00e1ngel and Roc\u00edo M\u00e1rquez. He has also collaborated with different music styles, such as Mick Taylor (ex-guitarist of the Rolling Stones), Luz Casal, Antonio Orozco, Manuel Carrasco, Kiko Veneno and Diana Navarro, for instance.<\/p>\n

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Some of this collaborations have been collected in albums and documentaries like “Omega” with the singer Enrique Morente and the music band “Lagartija Nick”, Antonio Orozco\u00b4s album “El principio del comienzo”, and Estrella Morente\u00b4s “Casa, Cueva y Escenario”.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column][vc_column width=’1\/2′]In 2008 he took part in Seville Flamenco Biennial, as a guest artist in Manolo Sanlucar\u00b4s show “Tu o\u00eddo es m\u00e1s viejo que tu abuelo” (your hearing is older than your grandfather). If his work as a soloist is remarkable, his facet as an accompanying guitarist definitely led him to becoming one of the main figures of flamenco nowadays. This stage of his career started in 1994, when he was awarded with the Second Prize in “Paco de Luc\u00eda Guitar Contest”. In 1998 his first album, \u201cPatriarca\u201d, was released. The second, \u201cBordon de trapo\u201d, was produced by Gerardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez and he counted on several collaborations, like Carmen Linares, Esperanza Fern\u00e1ndez and Arc\u00e1ngel. In 2013 he released “El calvario de un genio”, where he pays a tribute to the poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n

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In 2014 he starts the show “Lo Cort\u00e9s no quita lo Gallardo” in the Seville Flamenco Biennial, accompanied by the classical guitarist Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gallardo, referring to the album of the same name. They toured around a numnber of festivals, both classical and flamenco ones.<\/p>\n

As a soloist, he has performed several concerts in places such as Jerez Festival, Seville Flamenco Biennial, Cordoba Guitar Festival, Flamenco Thursdays of Cajasol, Mont de Marsan Flamenco Festival (France), Tampere Flamenco Festival (Finland), Quer\u00e9taro Flamenco Festival (Mexico), Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Music House in Moscow, Berl\u00edn Embassy or London Flamenco Festival, among others.<\/p>\n

He has obtained several prizes and awards: Giraldillo Award for guitar playing in Seville Flamenco Biennial, 2015. Also, Best accompanying guitar Flamenco Hoy Award, 2011. The website Deflamenco.com awarded him in 2012. Finally, his album “Bord\u00f3n de Trapo” was awarded with Best Guitar Album in 2007.<\/p>\n

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In today\u00b4s production we will be offering you a dazzling buleria where Miguel\u00b4s good taste and expressivity are more than proved, accompanied by the clapping and cheering of Juan Mateo and Diego Amaya. A video recorded with a guitar made by the maker Jer\u00f3nimo P\u00e9rez 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, an incredible guitar, with a really powerful and flamenco touch, just like our protagonist\u00b4s skills.<\/p>\n