Ketama

Madrid's award-winning Ketama trio, featuring brothers Antonio and Juan Miguel Carmona and cousin Juan Carmona, is one of the leading groups of the "new flamenco" movement. Since releasing their self-titled debut album in 1985, the trio have directed the evolution of flamenco as a world-savvy music. Their 2002 album Dame la Mano, went so far as to include hip-hop and house music. That hybrid approach has won detractors as well as fans, but Ketama helped introduce flamenco to an entirely new audience of young music listeners. Their longevity has silenced most of their naysayers...