Jaime Heredia - El Parrón

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Jaime Heredia “El Parrón” (Granada, 1955) embodies the raw heart of Andalusian flamenco. Raised in a Gypsy singing dynasty, he first performed in Sacromonte zambras at twelve and soon became known for a gravelly, cutting voice that carves through soleás and siguiriyas with hypnotic power. Over sixty years he has shared stages with legends from the Habichuela clan to cutting-edge dancers, while paying tribute to masters like Enrique Morente. His art is inseparable from the Albaicín—the UNESCO-listed hill of whitewashed cármenes and stone alleys opposite the Alhambra—whose night-long gatherings still forge new flamenco. Amid tourism pressures, El Parrón’s singing stands as living memory of a neighborhood where Moorish echoes meet Gypsy duende and every sigh of the breeze carries compás. “El Parrón: the untamed voice of Granada’s Albaicín.”