Redondo Beach welcomes versatile flamenco singer
Diego El Cigala, the acclaimed singer known as the Flamenco Sinatra, performs Thursday night at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Flamenco usually flies under the U.S. musical radar — unless you’re in a tapas bar or watching something vaguely Spanish. Singer Diego El Cigala, who will give his only Southern California concert at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center Oct. 20, hopes to change this, even if only briefly. “I want to move people’s emotions,” Cigala told the Easy Reader by phone from Mexico City, prior to launching his six-city, U.S. tour, his second in ten years. “Above all, I expect them to enjoy the experience.” At 43 perhaps the most heralded flamenco singer of his generation, the two-time Latin Grammy winner has gained rock-star status in Spain and Latin America. Besides using his husky, deeply emotive voice to explore flamenco’s emotional range, the long-haired El Cigala (Norway lobster, his nickname, for his thin frame and strong voice) has wowed audiences with forays into jazz, tango, and the ballad-style bolero. In 2003, he recorded with Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes and trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez, and most recently, collaborated with top tango musicians in…
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