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- Cante is a groan which comes from the stomach, grows in the throat, matures
in the mouth and dies in the ear which knows how to listen to it.
Esther Ruiz, Spain
- Cante is the display, through the human voice, of the feelings overflowing
from the soul of those who live and feel flamenco. This cante uses lyrics and
musical forms established in the so-called flamenco styles.
Beatriz Contreras, the United States
- Cante flamenco is the form in which passion, strength, pain and all human
feelings are expressed through voice, all of them becoming more beautiful with
sifted through flamenco.
Jaqueline Braga, Brazil
- Cante flamenco is the essence of wisdom and the source of knowledge.
Sergio, Spain
- Cante is a way of expressing the emotions and feelings coming from the soul,
experiences, joy, sadness... and is therefore the action or the effect of singing
expressing any popular Andalusian song or one close to this thing called flamenco.
Lola Hidalgo, Spain
- Cante is the cry of harmony emerging from the soul, in the game between life
and death.
Marielle Norambuena Ugarte, Chile
- Cante names the whole of musical compositions in different styles appearing
between the latter third of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century.
It is a cry full of feeling; it is the purest part of flamenco art.
David Fernández, Spain
- Cante is the lamentation of the cantaor, letting out his darkest grief which,
as Camarón used to say, turns into joy.
Flavia, Argentina
- Cante is the emotional cross between gypsy and Arab influences into a nearly
religious expression.
M. Larkum, England
- Cante is the sounds of the voice with which flamenco music is conveyed.
Errol Putigna, the United States
- Cante is the instrument of the heart and the soul of flamenco.
Ian Peacock, England
- Cante is a form of art expressing the feelings of a people who managed to
tell us their sorrows and joys through voice, a voice which comes from the heart
and speaks for all of us who feel cante.
Álvaro Mezquita, Mexico
- Cante is a verbal expression of feelings and thoughts. It is the most direct
expression of feelings.
Marek Wojtaszek, Canada
- Cante is the inevitable beginning, the expression of a feeling according
to the inspiration of the moment.
Eric van Santen, Holland
- Cante is the groan from the Earth's depths.
Jesús Sandoval, Mexico
- Cante jondo is laughter, weeping, poverty, joy, love, brother, father, mother,
it is passion, it is delirium, it is strength, it is emotion, it is sensitivity,
it is everything, it is life itself which is born from the being, from the heart
and from the soul and which fights its way through in its expression.
Zoraya Benites, Peru
- Cante is expression coming from the center of the heart, from life and the
feelings of the Andalusian gypsies. Cante deeply leads to memory and leaves you
there forever.
Aleksandra, Poland
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