Omar Montes: Why the Spanish artist thinks the best school for flamenco is the street

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Spanish artist Omar Montes to talk about why he'll never lose his flamenco influences, expressing the oppression of his Romani ancestors in his music and why the rhythms of reggaeton and flamenco aren't so different. This interview is in Spanish. Please find an English version of the conversation on our website.

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0:22.2	available wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:28.6	Anna Maria Ser is away on assignment this week, so you're stuck with me. Kind of. I say
0:34.3	kind of because this week we have an interview that she and I did recently with the Spanish
0:39.1	musician Omar Montes, who also stopped by to perform a tiny guest.
0:43.3	Hello, I'm very happy to be here. This is my team, Los Malientes, music from Spain.
0:53.5	This is our culture, gypsy culture, and I hope you enjoy.
1:00.0	You know, I say it so much that I sound like a broken record,
1:04.0	but I always enjoy conversations with musicians who ignore the restrictions of genre,
1:09.0	who use their traditions to make something new.
1:12.0	And Omar Montes is one of those musicians.
1:14.8	He has quite a backstory.
1:16.6	Before he started his musical career, he was a professional boxer with over 100 fights
1:21.6	under his belt.
1:22.8	And then he became a reality TV personality.
1:26.5	In fact, his reality TV fame
1:28.5	led him to releasing even more music
1:30.7	which he had been dabbling in for a while.
1:33.1	He grew up in the flamenco culture of Madrid.
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