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Miguel Poveda already adopted son of The Union (14/06/2013)

The Full Council of La Union has approved the appointment of flamenco singer Miguel Poveda as Adopted Son La Union, counting the votes for the People's Party and the Socialist Party and United Left abstaining.

In the words of our Mayor, Francisco Bernabé, "With this decision we are going to do justice to who, being the undisputed number one Flamenco undoubtedly has become the most important ambassador for our city over the past 20 years , it has always displayed at any interview or world stage of his passion and love for the Union, on our Festival and mining songs "

BIOGRAPHY OF MIGUEL POVEDA

Miguel Angel Poveda León, Miguel Poveda for art (Barcelona, ​​1973), it was always flamenco.

Since childhood, listening to records from his mother in the privacy of your room.

There, at that time, only the universe sounded great flamenco as Antonio Mairena, Manolo Caracol, Tomás Pavón, La Paquera de Jerez, La Niña de los Combs or John Varies.

His parents, from Lorca and Puertollano (Ciudad Real).

At 15 he was up for the first time on stage, that of the Peña Flamenca de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza in Badalona.

However, things were not going to be easy.

Initially working in various trades until returning from military service starts singing in the tablao The Cordovan of the Ramblas in Barcelona.

Poveda is tanned every night, to the best of schools for the artist.

But Michael wanted to be heard outside Catalonia to gauge their true worth.

That was how, with guitarist Juan Ramón Caro, is presented to the examinations for the 33rd edition of the National Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión (1993).

Not only was selected but was also awarded four first prizes, one of them the Mining Lamp, the most precious of flamenco universe, and to succeed in the songs by Cartagenera, Malagueña and Solea.

This artistic change his life forever, definitely professionalizing vocation.

Two years later he recorded his first album titled Flamingo East Wind.

In 1998, his work presents Flamenco Sounds (nominated in 2000 for a Latin Grammy).

In 2000 released his third album Vestibule and in 2002 began a tour of the United States: Miami, Chicago, New York, Bloomington and Washington.

That same year he published Desglaç, representing an original project and risky bet Poveda Catalan interpretation.

For the first time you edit a full disc in Catalan in the voice of a flamenco singer, composing himself some of the melodies Poveda.

In January 2006, acting at the Jazz Lincoln Center in New York in three concerts and works in his recital, Puerto Rican percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo.

That same year, returns to the Festival del Cante de las Minas, where he received his first artistic recognition.

In September 2006 she published calm Earth, in collaboration with guitarist Juan Carlos Romero.

For this album receives rave reviews and numerous awards, including the Latin Grammy nomination for Best Album 2007 flamenco.

The National Prize of Music in 2007 based on "its quality and versatility and the interest it has generated in other areas of musical creation" and Sing National Award granted by the Chair of Flamenco in Jerez de Frontier represent his definitive breakthrough as one of the great names of flamenco and music in Spain.

In 2009 he edited Sing disk i Orchestra, concert recording of August 4, 2007 at the Festival of Peralada, with Joan Albert Amargós and Chicuelo.

Songs of love (2009) is a double album in which Miguel Poveda revises classic songs arranged date.

Precisely includes in it an extraordinary version of "The well pagá" Ramon Perello masterpiece, great lyricist born in La Union.

Miguel Poveda was nominated a third time for "Best Flamenco Album" at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards for this work, which also achieved a Gold Record for sales.

In 2010 he won three music awards for this record: "Best Album", "Best Spanish Song Album" and "Best Arranger" for Joan Albert Amargós.

Moreover, in that same year, Poveda was honored as Honorary Citizen of the province of Seville.

Since winning the singing contest The Union Festival, the path of Miguel Poveda has been linked to the cultural and artistic happenings of our city.

First, in successive performances Contest finery mining; since 2008 as deserved "Golden Castillete" maximum Festival honorary recognition, as well as its presence in various speeches and meetings: in 2010, on the second day of the First International Congress on Cantes Miners Flamenco, with the conference "recollections, memories and emotions with mining songs - Levantine" completed with a performance warm, close and intimate as a tribute to the Miner.

Shortly thereafter, in the edition corresponding to that year festivalera, resounding success with the presentation of the "No Borders" adapted for the occasion with a wide range of styles from the land.

Since then, the mining town has a street dedicated to the artist.

New tribute to The Union "Craftsman", her ninth recording work (2012), which includes a mining entitled "A Pencho Cros", a tribute to his teacher in our songs, which won the Prize of the XIII International Cultural Festival Call Mining .

For the sum of such high merit, the Festival del Cante de las Minas Miguel Poveda devoted to his edition of 2013, in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of its victory in the contest singing contest and her career as the first ever ambassador Union and its songs.

Since then, midlife linked to La Union by ties of heart and art.

Miguel Poveda and Union, now and forever, inseparable.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión

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