Buika has been a sensation in Spain since her album, “Mi Nina Lola,” came out in 2005. She is part of a new generation of flamenco influenced performers who are hooking young audiences by mixing in ...

San Juan, 4 sep (EFE).San Juan, 4 sep (EFE). — La cantante española Concha Buika presentará su primer libro de poemas, “A los que amaron a mujeres difíciles y acabaron por soltarse”, en el Festival de ...

It’s not surprising that the Afro-Spanish singer Concha Buika is a favorite of the filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Her husky handling of the copla, a Spanish torch song with flamenco flourishes, and… By ...

Sad love, crazy love, bad love, joyful love, life-or-death love: Those were what Concha Buika sang about in her magnificent New York City debut recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. While the ...

The Spanish singer digs deep on an album that functions as a near-perfect statement of artistic purpose. Buika's dark, husky, intriguing voice... First Listen: Buika, 'La Noche Más Larga' Audio for ...

In the ’60s and ’70s danceable jazz-pop in foreign languages made American radio more exciting: Jorge Ben’s “Mas Que Nada” charted when recorded by Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66; it was followed by ...

Better than: Dreaming of her. A 2009 performance by Concha Buika is on YouTube showing the Spanish singer in Lincoln Center’s Damroch Park backed by solo piano and ...

Growing up in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, as the daughter of Equatorial Guinea immigrants, Concha Buika had a hard time understanding the world around her. “It was really strange to go in a supermarket ...

The music business is full of unlikely and fantastical tales of artists who rise from humble origins to international success, but there’s nothing quite like Concha Buika’s sojourn from Central ...

It’s not every day that a featured player outshines a star. One such Cinderella moment happened just five months ago, on no less storied a stage than Carnegie Hall. And it involved not just a star, ...

Concha Buika's voice doesn't come from inside her petite body: It comes from Africa, and from the past. There are obvious traces of flamenco, itself a historical mash-up of the Moors and various ...

Spanish flamenco singer Concha Buika says the key to her music is singing with a "beautiful idea" and "really big desire." Born on the Spanish island of Majorca to parents who fled their home in ...