What is passion? In preparing for this interview, I asked this question until the word ‘passion’ became completely meaningless for me. In an effort to reach clarity, I looked it up in the dictionary. Passion is described as, “strong and barely controllable emotion.”...
If you’ve ever been to a flamenco show with Spaniards, you’d have noticed that the audience has an easy, almost overly personal relationship with the performers. The show was likely peppered with shouts of ‘olé!’ ‘toma!!’ or ‘bien!’ Sometimes there are longer phrases,...
During my trip to Seville, Spain, last winter, I found myself in a recording studio. The engineer, Isidro, is a successful musician and works as a sideman for a big-name singer. Experimenting in the recording studio is play for him, and does an amazing job of it. He...
