The flamenco pop of India Martínez will be protagonists today of the Cook Music Fest, which faces its final stretch with the most intense week of the festival, in which on successive days Lola Índigo, Oscar de León and Gilberto Santa Rosa will also perform, among others.
Step by step, the Cook has been unraveling an interesting poster in which music, gastronomy, humor and children’s shows have not been lacking.
Today’s will be a concert where India will leave her soul presenting Palmeras, her latest tribute album to the Cordovan neighborhood that saw her grow up. It will be a great night for the fans of this essential artist on the music scene, who delivers a live show full of strength and talent at each concert.
But before India will take the stage Voices in the Distance, a group whose objective is to project a musical show where the musical richness of the contemporary Canary Islands is revealed, and to promote the development of the cultural values of the Islands through artistic stimuli that come from different shores.
For India Martínez, flamenco came first and then came pop. She was still a girl when she won her first flamenco art festivals, to which she appeared with the endorsement of her guitar and music theory studies, and she had already become quite a girl when she opened her eyes to pop. That she made that journey, and not the other way around, is one of the explanations for the spell of her songs, which try to bring together two styles that are so distant, even generationally. Of course, she is not the first artist to try it, but if India is who she is today, an authority on this racial and contemporary fusion, it is possibly thanks to those Flemish origins that would become the foundation of her career.
Despite his youthIndia is already a veteran of Spanish musicwith its eight albums, its gold and platinum records and its recognition in the most prestigious awards, including several Latin Grammy nominations.
All this trajectory has been like a path towards maturity that culminates in Palmeras, published in October 2019, in which he incorporates more complex melodies and sounds, which give his voice an unprecedented freshness and power. La Nueva India delivers a work full of strength, the definitive overcoming of the mixture of flamenco and pop that has catapulted her as an essential artist.
For more information and to purchase tickets, those interested can go to the festival page: www.cookmusicfest.es.
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