Enrique Morente
Enrique Morente Cotelo ( born December 25, 1942 in Granada, † December 13, 2010 in Madrid) was a Spanish flamenco singer and composer.
Morente grew up in his hometown on the flamenco singing. At the age of 18 he came occurred to Madrid, where he became known as Enrique El granaino and with musicians like Pepe de la Matrona, Nina Corti, Bernardo el de los Lobitos and Manolo de Huelva. Soon he started different flamenco styles to merge and led a Spanish poet of classical texts in the flamenco singing.
End of the 1960s, Morente involved in dance projects of the pianist Antonio Robledo and his wife Susana Audeoud: La Celestina and later obsession, which premiered with the Canadian National Ballet. In 1967, he played a Flamenco Cante his first album. Another project with Robledo del cante jondo was Fantasia para voz y orquesta flamenca. Their first performance was in 1986 at the Royal Theatre of Madrid with the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid under the direction of Luis Izquierdo and guitarist Juan Gerardo Núñez and Habichuela.
1988 Granada El loco romantico his project was performed by Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote. 1990 played the Chamber Orchestra of Granada, headed by Micha Rachelevsky with the guitarist Pepe Habichuela and Montoyita and Antonio Robledo at the piano in the VI. Bienal de Flamenco solea the premiere of his Allegro.
He composed the music for Martin Recuerdas work Las arrecogidas del Beaterio de Santa Maria Egipciaca, seemed to Miguel Narros Edipo Rey and composed the music for Jose Luis Boraus film La Sabina. During the 1994 Biennale in Seville Misa Flamenca his and his Requiem was first performed.
In the late 1990s, he worked with the Bulgarian women's choir Angelite and established links between the flamenco singing and Bulgarian folk music here. With the Rock Band Lagartija Nick, he played music on texts by Federico García Lorca and the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen on the album Omega (1996). Since the late 1980s Morente also appeared with his daughter Estrella Morente.
Morente died in a hospital in Madrid after an operation on esophageal and gastric tumor.