Carmen Amaya (November 2, 1913 - November 19, 1963) was a flamenco dancer and singer, born in the Somorrostro slum of Barcelona, Spain. Jump to: navigation, search November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flamenco dancer Belen Maya, photograph taken by Gilles Larrain at his studio, 2001 Flamenco is a song, music and dance style which is strongly influenced by the Gitanos, but which has its deeper roots in Moorish and Jewish musical traditions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...
She was invited by Frankin Delano Roosevelt in the forties to dance in the White House in 1944. Albo by Harry S. Truman in 1953. Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth Vice President (1945) and the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–53), succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...
Amaya is buried in the Cementiri del Sud-Oest on Barcelona's Montjuïc. Montjuïc - Hill of the Jews in medieval Catalan language or maybe a corruption of Latin Mons Jovicus (that is, hill of Jupiter). ...
The character of CarmenAmaya, artist that enjoyed in life the general and enthusiastic admiration of all her art colleagues, has been described by several critics, flamenco students and writers, as well as exalted by poets, among them Fernando Quiñones, author of the poem Soneto and lirics for Camen Amaya.
CarmenAmaya, that is her name, is not a different woman in each one of her dances, as it usually happens to other big figures of the dance.
CarmenAmaya 's appearance, her extraordinary success, gave its effects in a moment when the Spanish dance seemed to grow drowsy in a maniera that aesthetically didn't go beyond the good taste.
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