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Quejío is the form of artistic expression which a cantaor has to show the
audience his deepest feeling, which emerges with heartbreaking force from the
artist's entrails, in the shape of a cry, with strength but able to sound like
a sweet melody.
Sergi, Spain
Quejío is the release of the deepest, most repressed feeling to be found
in the soul; the exteriorization of the lament belonging to cante flamenco.
Claudia Cabaco, Uruguay
Quejío is feeling turned into harmony.
Lucas Blancas, Spain
Quejío is the use that the cantaor makes of his voice to express his
feeling and let his heart sing.
Otto Bruno, Brazil
Quejío is the way in which a flamenco cantaor interprets what he is
feeling when singing.
Belén, Spain
Quejío is a vocal style which defines flamenco crying or lament.
Pinar Dinlemez, Turkey
Quejío is the heartbroken cry and feeling given by flamenco cantaores.
Jeniffer Montenegro, Colombia
Quejío is a technique of flamenco style singing where the voice of cantaor
or cantaoras sounds sorrowful or weeping.
O. Pescado Cavanaugh, the United States
Quejío is the broken voice which comes out of the deepest part of the
soul when a cantaor feels what he is singing.
Esther Ruiz, Spain
Quejío is drawing with one's voice what one's soul feels.
Elena, Spain
Quejío is the deep, basic / fundamental / essential grief and complaint,
expressing the suffering and pains of life and the human being.
Susanne Sara Nyegaard, Denmark
Quejío is cante's trademark par excellence. It is the instant in which
a cantaor feels the cante, feels sudden stabs of pain in his soul. If there is
no quejío there is no pain, if there is no pain there is no duende and
if there is no duende there is nothing.
Israel Fernández García, Spain
Quejío is the expression of the deepest feeling which the cantaor must
refer to in order to produce the sound from his soul which characterizes flamenco.
It is flamenco passion turned into voice.
Nuria Lanzagorta, Mexico
Quejío is the scream from the core of one's being.
Paula Reyes, the United States
Quejío is the singing of the soul.
José Antonio Menéndez, Costa Rica
Quejío is the cantaor's orgasm and at the same time his most terrible
suffering.
Gonzalo Franco, Uruguay
Quejío is the purest feeling a cantaor can have.
Bea, Spain
Quejío is the language and existential presence in the memory of the
cantaor or cantaora...
Eric van Santen, Holland
Quejío is the purest way in which the cantaor expresses his feeling
by means of flamenco language.
Daniel Brenes, Costa Rica
Quejío is born when your mouth tastes like blood.
José María Rivas, Spain
Quejío is the lament of the aching soul, which launches its weeping
to infinity in a dark voice.
Fernando Mera, Ecuador
Quejío is the lament of the gypsies. Quejío in flamenco in cante
is like an introduction to cante which is interpreted is the lament and when you
listen to that lament in cante it envelops you and gives you goose bumps.
Becky de Waldo, Mexico
Quejío is the expression of lament and pain which characterizes cantes
flamencos and which reveals the deepest sadness.
Marisa Nidia, Argentina
A heartbroken, deep-felt cry of cante flamenco.
Ronald Vermeir, Belgium
Quejío is the cry of a lament resounding in the soul and which melts
in the blood of he who loves flamenco.
Pía Villar, Chile
Quejío is the vocal flamenco style portraying a lament or cry.
Miguel Pardos, Australia
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