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GUITARRA FLAMENCO

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I first hear Flamenco music in 1964 when the uncle and father of members of The Gypsy kings released their first record album in the US  titled: Manitas de Plata: Guitarra Flamenco.  It was recorded in a small room with a few invited guests, including the world famous artist Pablo Picasso.  His cousin, a carpet layer, Jose Reyes, who is the father of several of the members of The Gypsy Kings, was the vocalist.  When I heard the magnificent and authentic guitar playing on this record I was instantly electrified!  Memories of my past lives spent in Spain and France as a gypsy flooded back into my consciousness with overwhelming passion for this music and these beautifully crude, by free, peasants who were originally refugees from India and Egypt.  Here are two cuts from Manitas De Plata performing  Tarantas. This is the first US recordings ever made of Manitas De Plata — October 1963, in Arles, France, produced by Connoisseur Society (the recording engineer was David B. Jones). It was initially released as an LP (“Manitas de Plata aux Saintes Maries de la Mer“) on the Philips and Connoisseur Society labels.  To this day I have never heard a performance of authentic Flamenco guitar playing as flawlessly performed as those recorded on this record.

Here are TWO selections from that album:


In 2003 I attended a concert of the Gypsy Kings at The Greek Theater in L.A. as a birthday present to myself.  This is my favorite music group of all time!  They continue the proud heritage of the true gypsy spirit of freedom and passion and musical genius!  Here is the complete album of the Gypsy Kings Greatest Hits:

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Bhutto Confirms that Osama Bin Laden is Dead

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Bhutto Confirms that Osama Bin Laden is Dead.

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, pronounced [beːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈʈoː]; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was aPakistan-born politician, with Pakistani and Kurdish–Iranian origin, who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left and the largest political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state,[1] having twice beenPrime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan‘s first and to date only female prime minister and was the eldest child of former Prime minister of Pakistan Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and former First Lady of Pakistan Mrs.Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of current President of Pakistan Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.

Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 she was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by her party’s elected President Farooq Leghari. She went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998.

Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18th 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 in which she was a leading opposition candidate. The following year, she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.[2]