Survey 2008. Winners

SURVEY 2008

WINNERS

 

THESE ARE THE BEST OF 2007

ACCORDING TO YOUR VOTES, THESE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 2008 FLAMENCO SURVEY.

12,353 valid votes in the final phase of the poll picked the best of flamenco in 2007.  Along with the 10,062 votes in the first phrase, that’s a total of 22,415 votes received from the readers of DeFlamenco.com throughout the world who were kind enough to take the trouble to vote.  A total of some 2000 votes were ified for having come from duplicated addresses with the same IP.65% of the votes received came from the Spanish edition, and the rest from the English edition.  Geographically, 45% of the votes were received from Spain, mostly from Madrid, followed by the provinces of Andalusia like Granada, Seville and Málaga.  Other noteworthy countries were the United States, France, Mexico, Italy, Canada and Japan, although votes were received from a total of 46 different countries.

The voters are readers of DeFlamenco.com who regularly follow the day-by-day activity of flamenco, and many of them are clients.  We consider the majority of them of to be great lovers of flamenco, considering the difficulty and effort required to fill out the survey, especially in the first phase of open voting.  Small voting “campaigns” were detected in some of the categories, but due to the volume of votes, we do not feel this skewed the results in any way.  Not all the categories had the same number of votes, since many forms only contained votes in several categories leaving the rest blank as it was not obligatory to give an opinion in each specialty.

The winners of the Pack “Aprende a Tocar el Cajón”, the “Enciclopedia de la A a la Z” and Don Flamenco shoes (Sergio González from Albacete, Victoria Maján from Oviedo and Concepción Betancort from Bogotá), as well the winners of the 30 T-shirts have been advised by email in order to send them their prizes.

In early March we will celebrate the presentation of the prizes at a major Madrid venue.  Watch the web for information about how to pick up the invitations.

CATEGORIES

Best flamenco record

Marina Heredia with 'La voz del agua' was the winning record in this hotly-contested category with 2.949 votes. .

Esperanza Fernández 'Recuerdos'
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El Torta 'Momentos'

Marina Heredia 'La voz del agua'

Best first recording
With his first recording ‘El Sendero de lo Imposible’, Jerez guitarist Santiago Lara won with 1.950 votes in what was also a tight race.

Guillermo Cano 'Rincon del pensamiento'

Santiago Lara 'El sendero de lo imposible''

Miguel Ochando 'Memoria'


Best guitar record

Jerez maestro Paco Cepero, with his record ‘Abolengo”, received the most number of votes for his record with a total of 2931 votes.

Chicuelo 'Diapasión'

Miguel Ochando 'Memoria'

'Abolengo' – Paco Cepero

Best record of flamenco fused with other music
Without a doubt the most popular category in terms of number of votes received.  The winner was Manuel Lombo with 3927 votes.

'Desvaríos' Jorge Pardo & El Bola

Manuel Lombo

'Con otro aire' Chambao

Best re-release
The ‘Enciclopedia from A to Z’ received 1792 votes to be the winner in this category.

'Ellas dan el cante' Mujeres en el flamenco

Enciclopedia de los estilos flamencos de la A a la Z

José Mercé – Grandes éxitos

Best live flamenco show
The show offered by Estrella Morente was considered to be the best of 2007 with 3035 votes.

Gerardo Núñez

Miguel Poveda 'Sin frontera'

Estrella Morente

Best dancer
2721 readers voted Rocío Moliina to be the best dancer of last year.

Rocío Molina

Manuela Carrasco

Eva Yerbabuena


Best newcomer in dance

Marco Flores was voted the best newcomer in flamenco dance with 2211 votes.

Pastora Galván

Iván Vargas

Marco Flores

Best live show of flamenco dance.
Manuela Carrasco’s ‘Un Sorbito de lo Sublime’ with 2185 votes was considered the best dance show of 2007.

Juan Andrés Maya 'El nacimiento'

Manuela Carrasco 'Un sorbito de lo sublime'

'Santo y seña'.
Eva Yerbabuena

Best flamenco festival
The second edition of Málaga en Flamenco received 3293 votes.

Málaga en Flamenco

Festival Caja de Madrid

SUMA FLAMENCA

Best book on flamenco
And ‘Flamencos de Gañanía’ by our own Estela received 2468 votes from loyal readers.

Manolo Sanlúcar 'El alma compartida'

'Flamencos de Gañanía' -Estela Zatania

'De Jerez y sus cantes' – Jose María Castaño

Best flamenco DVD
This was the category that received the greatest number of votes, and very evenly distributed between the candidates.  The winner was Silvia Marín with ‘Flamenco para Niños’ with 3187 votes.

Flamenco para niños. Silvia Marín

'Mis adentros'.Noches en Casa Patas. La Truco.

'Sabores' Sara Baras

Special mention
“Special Mention” is the only category not included in the survey and which is decided by DeFlamenco.com based on your suggestions.  There were many worthy candidates, all the votes were for institutions or people who work for flamenco every day, and many proposals were in agreement with our favorite. 
The honor goes to the Amor de Dios Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española.

 

 

 

This survey is not of a scientific nature, nor does it pretend to be anything more than a reflection of our readers’ preferences.  The results represent the taste of DeFlamenco.com’s readership and should be taken precisely as that.  Our thanks again to everyone who took part, and congratulations to the winners.

Rafael Manjavacas Lara.

 


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