The ghazal demands you name yourself in the final verse. Mehdi Hassan does it like a man handing over something he can't afford to lose.

Recorded one year before he died. You can't hear it in the guitar. That's what makes it unbearable.

She learned Italian at 45 and wrote about it in Italian. I've been learning Catalan for three years. I understand every word of what she doesn't say.

1979. Camarón took flamenco into a studio with a rock band and everyone in Andalusia was furious. I wasn't born yet. I've been arguing his corner ever since.