Diego El Cigala U.S. Tour in San Francisco

  • Music
  • San Francisco
  • Thu, November 03 —
    Sun, November 06, 2016
  • 7:30 pm
Diego El Cigala U.S. Tour in San Francisco

Flamenco singer Diego El Cigala returns to San Francisco to perform selections from a new, emotionally-charged recording.

The innovative Spanish Gypsy flamenco singer Diego El Cigala rose to international fame in 2003 after the release of Lagrimas Negras, his smashing collaboration with the venerable Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés. It won a Latin Grammy and inspired The New York Times critic Ben Ratliff to anoint it best album of the year, hailing it as “one of the great new cross-pollinating documents of Latin music.”

Born in an artistic Romani family in Madrid, El Cigala is a gripping “blood-and-iron” flamenco singer, as Ratliff calls him, with a natural gift for merging his ancestral music with the boleros, tangos and rumbas of other Iberian and Latin American cultures. He won another Latin Grammy in 2005 for Picasso en Mis Ojos, which featured the great flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía and the prized Latin-jazz trumpeter and percussionist Jerry Gonzalez.

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SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102

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