Pride Flamenco Awards 2022
The Pride Flamenco Awards are here with a great line-up of artists who defend art above labels, we tell you about it in a new post on our blog.
The Pride Flamenco Awards are above all culture, diversity and justice, and are also a way of supporting and thanking the LGTBI collectives for the contribution they have made to flamenco and to life itself. It is the result of many years of accompanying and valuing the art that representatives of these groups have contributed to flamenco music. This is the first edition of this recognition, which we hope will be consolidated as an incentive to the work and art of people who represent a large and still vulnerable group in society, but whom we support, encourage and value highly. The aim is to make a difference and uncover many taboos that still exist in the art of flamenco and to feel proud of it, inviting anyone, regardless of ethnicity, colour, sex or sexuality, to participate in this expression, which is a World Heritage Site.
What will the first edition be like?
The first edition of the Pride Flamenco Awards will be held on 28 June, International LGTBI Pride Day at the EDP Gran Vía Theatre in Madrid. The event will be hosted by the renowned broadcaster of Radio Olé, Joaquín Hurtado, winner of the Award for Excellence in Communication in Spanish Radio, Television and Music. He will be joined by the artist Sara Salazar, member of the flamenco group Alazán, and sister of the renowned Azúcar Moreno.
Orgullo Flamenco Award 2022
Receives the Orgullo Flamenco Award in its first edition THE MASTER: ANTONIO CANALES
Antonio Canales was born in Seville in 1961. He is the son and grandson of flamenco artists. He began his career in the Spanish National Ballet. He dances as a guest artist in some of the best companies in the world and has international fame.
international fame. He has shared the stage with such personalities as Nureyev, Peter Schaufuss, Sylvie Guillem and Julio Bocca. Since he created his own company in 1992, he has reaped prodigious successes, and the most important theatres in the world have fallen at his feet, obtaining the best reviews from the press and the public. The standard-bearer of these awards will receive the highest award from the hands of another world-renowned figure.
She will present the highest award of the Pride Flamenco Awards 2022: Veso Golden, Miss TransWorld SPAIN 2022 A stylist by profession, she combines her work as a transgender model and singer with that of an activist for human rights, especially for trans women in Africa. Like many of them, she had to flee her country to save her life. The hard personal story of this Nigerian woman and her fight for equality, inclusion and diversity have made her the example of an inspiring woman for her entire community.
A grand gala
For the gala, an event never seen before in Madrid is being prepared, where the world of flamenco and LGTBI collectives will meet on a red carpet, where in addition to the artists who will offer the concert and the figures that make up the event, personalities and special guests from the world of fashion, as well as from the social, political and cultural spheres, and much more, will participate.
The Award Gala will be preceded by a musical show with the participation of the following artists: Alazán, Fernando Soto, La Negri y orgullo flamenco, Lin Cortés, Naike Ponce y Pakete, Kiki Morente, Antonio Canales.
The dancer will receive the statuette at the end of his performance, from the hands of Miss Trans Word, and surrounded by all the artists taking part in the show, marking the perfect finale of an unprecedented event.
The musicians who will make up the band that will accompany the aforementioned figures, are of equally high level:
Guitars:
Paquete / Antonio Sánchez / Pino Losada
Vocals:
José el Bocaíllo / El Perre
Keyboards:
Jose María Cortina
Bass:
José Bachiller "El Bachi
Percussion:
Lucky Losada / José el Paquetito