Antonio Carmona – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| Birth name | Antonio Carmona Amaya | |
| Birth | May 21, 1965 (57 years)  Granada, Spain |
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| Nationality | Spanish | |
| Family | ||
| Father | Juan Habichuela | |
| Spouse | Mariola Orellana | |
| Children | Marina Carmona (1992) Lucía Fernanda Carmona (1996) |
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| Professional information | ||
| Occupation | Singer | |
| Genders | Flamenco, fusion | |
| Instruments | Voice, guitar and flamenco drawer | |
| Record | Universal Music Group | |
| Related artists | David Bisbal, India Martínez, El Arrebato, Diego El Cigala, Miguel Poveda, El Barrio, Demarco, El Canijo, Stool (Band) | |
| Member of | Salad | |
| Website | www.antoniocarmonaoficle.com | |
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Antonio Carmona Amaya (Granada, May 21, 1965) is a gypsy singer of Spanish flamenco. He is a member of the Spanish Musical Group of Flamenco-Fusion Ketama with his brother, Juan José Carmona Amaya “El Camborio” (1960), and his cousin, José Miguel Carmona Niño “Josemi” (1971).
Antonio Carmona belongs to an outstanding flamenco gypsy dynasty initiated by his great -grandfather, “Habichuela el Viejo”. He is the grandson of José Carmona, son of the flamenco guitarist Juan Habichuela (1933-2016) and nephew of the guitarist Pepe Habichuela (1944) and Carlos and Luis Carmona, also flamenco musicians. His nephew Juan Torres Fajardo “Habichuela Nieto” (1988) was Bordón de Oro Award at the Cante de las Minas de la Unión Festival in 2011. His mother is Matilde Amaya (Granada, 1938).
On October 4, 2017, “San Francisco de Asís” enters a hospital due to an infection in the mouth (septicemia) that extended to the rest of the body after a dental implant, after worse it had to be induced to a comma. After the improvement, he receives discharge on October 16 of that same year.
Trajectory [ To edit ]
Antonio Carmona is a flamenco singer, one of the most notorious representatives of the “new flamenco”, a style he has developed especially within the ranks of the Ketama group. However, before reaching this miscegenation, he was already a connoisseur of pure flamenco, due to its origin.
He has also had some film experience, appeared in the film Gypsy (2000), where he shared filming with Joaquín Cortés, Pilar Bardem or Laetitia Casta. He was one of the protagonists, along with Portuguese actress María de Medeiros, in the film Go for Gold! (1997), sponsored by Wim Wenders and directed by Lucien Segura. It also appeared in Berlin Blues (1988) by Ricardo Franco, and had a special participation in the chapter “so that you do not cry” of the series The simulators Spanish version.
All its trajectory is developed by the Flamenco Group Madrid Fusion Ketama, composed of Juan Carmona Amaya, El Camborio (Granada, 1960), Antonio Carmona Amaya (Granada, 1965) and José Miguel Carmona Niño (Madrid, 1971).
New musical winds blew in flamenco when two guitarists who worked in the Madrid tablao “Los Canasteros”, Jerez José Soto, deaferita and Granada Juan Carmona, El Camborio, son of Juan Habichuela, decided to form Ketama in the early eighties. The group intended to review the inheritance of their respective flamenco sagas, deafness and beans, demolishing borders. With Ray Heredia, son of Bailaor Josele, as a vocalist, the trio soon became the flagship of the seal new media. The proposal of these young flamenco brought orthodoxy, while dazzling musical criticism … and the young public.
The original formation changed in 1990, when Antonio Carmona, brother of El Camborio, replaced Ray Heredia and his cousin José Miguel Carmona replaced deafrieita. The group then had four albums behind them, including that “Songhai” (new media, 1988) in which they dared with African music. In the following years, Ketama is consolidated as one of the main Spanish pop groups. Until 1999, the group is going through a prolific stage from the record point of view. In 1996 he writes the theme that Spanish Television selects to represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Festival, Oh what I wish! Which will interpret Antonio Carbonell.
After more than twenty years of joint work and more than one million albums sold, the brothers Juan and Antonio Carmona and their cousin Josemi decided to take a truce after a race in which eleven original albums and two compilations have remained plus the direct of the direct of “Akí to Ketama” (Mercury, 1995). Hundreds of awards and collaborations with the most prominent musicians in Spain and international.
After the separation of Ketama, Antonio Carmona has undertaken his solo career with the album I come poisonous , published in 2006 by Universal Music, which has the collaborations of Mala Rodríguez, Juanes or Alejandro Sanz and presented on tour during 2007, with the collaboration of special guests in one of their concerts such as Miguel Poveda, La Mala Rodríguez or its Anciento Ketama: Juan and Josemi Carmona. This album received great reception from the public getting to be a gold record, and Séxtuple Digital Platinum Disc with the theme “ so that you do not cry like this ” in collaboration with Alejandro Sanz.
After the success of his solo debut album, Antonio Carmona returns with a new album in 2011, At night , formed by twelve themes and with the collaborations of artists such as Nelly Furtado and Concha Buika.
In 2017, after 6 years of silence public a new album called Works are loves whose first single is “Mencanta”.
In April 2021 he collaborates with singer C. Tangana in the song “ME MATEN” . This theme is launched as part of the Tiny Desk Concert series, the concerts sponsored by the American public radio (the NPR), and was recorded at Casa Carvajal (Madrid). [ first ]
Discography [ To edit ]
Condama con [ To edit ]
- Salad (New Media, 1985)
- Neither pipa de how (New Media, 1987)
- Songhai (New Media, 1988)
- And it’s what times have been (Universal, 1990)
- Karma (Compilatory) (New Media, 1990)
- Hondas songs (Compilatory) (New Media, 1992)
- Pa´ people with soul (POLYGRAM, 1992)
- The art of the invisible (Universal, 1993)
- Songhai 2 (New Media, 1994)
- from aki a kemama (Universal, 1995)
- Konfusión (Universal, 1997)
- Sabor Surky (compilation) (Mercury Records, 1998)
- TOMA KETAMA! (Universal, 2000)
- give me your hand (Universal, 2002)
- New media collection (Compilatory) (New Media, 2002)
- 20 pa ‘pads (compilation) (Universal, 2004)
In solitary [ To edit ]
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Golden disc |
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| At night |
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| Works are loves |
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