What trouble did you run into when fitting your flamenco voice into Enric Palomars music?
It was a real challenge for me because the way of composing and sketching with my voice had to change completely. The registers were going to be entirely different from the ones I usually use in flamenco. It was a matter of fitting in, of adding voice to that work he’d already finished and it took me four months to learn it all: first, the poems; next, to be able to sing them without the lyrics in front of me, understanding them; finally, to sing them with that melodic form so disparate and so complicated and so different from what I was used to and, moreover, enjoying myself, not doing the notes as if I were a machine. If I could manage to do that, which I’d set out to do, I would do so. And after two months, I started to enjoy it. Then it took me eight months of true anxiety, of having a really bad time of it. It was stressing for me. And you all wanted to leave a token of that work… The concert turned out so well, I had such a good time working and singing that Enric, the people f
