The daughter of famed flamenco singer Enrique Morente and the dancer Aurora Carbonell, she has been electrifying audiences since the age of 7 with a voice filled with fire in one moment and rich like raw honey in the next. Like her late father, who produced several of her recordings and was himself known for incorporating unconventional elements to his own singing, Morente's style is a blend of traditional and contemporary. Jazz, blues, Caribbean and Cuban son, rancheras, Colombian song, Portuguese fado, and classical music have been great sources of inspiration. The 15 songs bring Estrella's own lucid singing together with an unusual coterie of artists, including Pat Metheny, Michael Nyman and the late flamenco guitar master Paco de Lucia. 'Autorretrato' makes me fall in love with the ancient cantes, with the history of the purest flamenco all over again, in order to set it free, she says, and also to free myself of those reservations that certain people with fairly extreme standards use to corset the art form. [...] in this recording, as I see it, Enrique Morente offers me the chance to portray myself and to have a frank conversation with myself and everyone.
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