(artículo) Singers Over Manhattan - Flamenco

Jazz at Lincoln Center continues the tradition in its second full season featuring great singers with the breathtaking view in The Allen Room with Singers Over Manhattan at 7:30pm on January 19, 20, 21, 2006. Located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to Jazz at Lincoln Center, overlooking Central Park, Columbus Circle and the Manhattan skyline, the best seat in Manhattan is yours. Passionate and powerful vocalist Miguel Poveda is joined by explosive percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo and lightning-fast Flamenco guitarist Juan Gómez Chicuelo.

You can expect a fiery performance when these electrifying musicians combine their talents in the showcase of The Allen Room. Mr. Poveda will work up a sweat, soaring to the heights of vocal performance as he keeps time with the incredible conga player Mr. Hidalgo, complimented by the nimble fingering of Flamenco guitarist Chicuelo. This Latin-laced series will hypnotize the audience with the rhythms of the world. Baby, its cold outside! So come on in to the warmth and elegance of The Allen Room, located at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Singer Miguel Poveda was awarded four prizes at the Festival de Cante de las Minas de La Union held in 1993, including the prestigious La’mpara Minera prize. From that moment on, his career began gaining momentum. He was in the movie La Teta y Las Luna, by Bigas Luna, he recorded his first record, Viento del Este, and he appeared on national and international festivals such as Logrono’s Actual, Madrid’s Tarantos, Sevilla’s Bienal de Arte Flamenco, Paris’ Fiesta de la Musica and Antwerp’s Festival de Flamenco. In 1997, he produced a show for the seminar organized by the University of Bologna on the Poets of the Generation of 1927. He was also requested by the Festival of Culture and Arts in Ramallah, Palestine, and soon after did his first tour of Japan. In 1998, he presented his work Suena Flamenco, (which was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Latino Awards) and collaborated as guest artist in the theater play La Vida es Sueno, directed by Calixto Bieito, in The International Festival of Edinburgh.

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