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(translated from spanish by babelfish) Federico Garci'a Lorca in the flamenco one Alicia R. Mediavilla Federico Garci'a Lorca, granadino poet of the Generation of the 27 (1927), without being gypsy nor flamenco, has had and continues having an important presence in the world of the flamenco one. Many flamenco artists have approached their work and have tried to recreate the force, the passion and the tragedy of their verses. The flamenco flamenco singers are many who have chosen poems of the great granadino poet: Shrimp, Carmen Linares, Enrique Montoya, Enrique Morente, Juanito Valderrama, Lola Flowers, Lole and Manuel, Manzanita, Black Leg, Pepe Marchena... But it was the own Lorca, long before, one of first in understanding that the culture had to approach the popular thing thus and, he approached the flamenco one. In the first place, the own poet compiled folksongs, between which were gypsy letters and flamencas and that he reunited in his Collection of Old Folksongs. Between those traditional songs they were tonadillas, bulerías, commotions, rollovers... that the own Lorca recorded in 1931 accompanying with the piano the Argentinita. This disc, that recovered and remasterizó in 1995, constitutes the sonorous document more personnel of the granadino poet. In 1965, jovencísimo Alpaca of Lucia offered with its guitar its own version of these same pieces in Twelve Songs of Garci'a Lorca for guitar. Twelve subjects in which the guitarist of Algeciras also appeared accompanied by the guitarist Ricardo Modrego. Also the great teacher of the castanets Lucero Tena interpreted in Lucero Tena and the world of Garci'a Lorca " some of these songs compiled by Lorca. "the great artists of the south of Spain, flamenco gypsys or, or sing, dance or touch, know that any emotion without the arrival of duende is not possible". Game and theory of duende. Lorca. The eagerness of Garci'a Lorca because the popular traditions were not lost, among them the tradition of sings jondo gypsy, took to him to summon next to Manuel de Falla the I Aid of Sings Jondo, celebrated in Granada in June of 1922. The great Antonio Chacón celebrated as president of the jury and participated to figures like Manuel towers, Tomás Pavón, Girl of Peines or Diego Bermúdez. Lorca has received important tributes of flamenco artists. One of first was Enrique Morente in the disc In the House Museum of Federico Garci'a Lorca de Fuentevaqueros, on whom the flamenco singer was based on the work of the granadino poet. Engraving in 1990, soon became a jewel of collectors now reedited. Also Morente has used verses of Lorca in other record works like Lorca, next to Juan Manuel Cañizares, Pepe Kidney bean, Paquete and Carles Benavent; or like Omega, next to the rock group Nick Small lizard. Manolo Sanlúcar, one of the great renovadores of the flamenco touch in century XX, also rendered a sense tribute to Federico Garci'a Lorca in the disc breeze Madness and trino, accompanying to the flamenco voice of Carmen Linares. All a flamenco sample of pure, as much in the guitar as in sings. Shrimp has interpreted in many of its discs letters of Garci'a Lorca: Nana of the Great Horse, the legend of the time or Romance of the Bitter one, that appears in the disc the legend of the time or Casida of the Dark Doves and the Romance of Thamar and Amnon, of the disc I am gypsy. And finally, a collective tribute, the gypsys sing to Federico Garci'a Lorca ". Shrimp, Manzanita, Diego Carrasco, Ricardo Pachón, Lole and Manuel, Leg Negra or Tino I gave Geraldo put in this disc flamenco music to poems of Lorca.