Jesús Corbacho Vázquez

Finalist Cante Siguiriya, Soleá, Bulerías, Cante de las Minas 2012

Jesús Corbacho Vázquez
From Huelva
Age 25
Jesús Corbacho Vázquez was born in Huelva in 1986 and grew up surrounded by flamenco, singing his first fandangos aged just two and a half, joining the peña Flamenca de Huelva as a young boy. Aged just 11, he received the first prize for fandangos in the certamen Paco Toronjo in Alosno in the infant category, a prize which he repeated years later as an adult.
He studied formally in the Fundación de Arte Flamenca Christina Heeren in Seville and has collaborated as an artist alongside many of the major figures in flamenco today, such as Belén Maya, Milagros Mengibar, Merche Esmeralda, Rocío Molina, Pastora Galván, Manuel Liñan, Olga Pericet, Marcos Flores, amongst others.

He has also appeared worldwide in Festivals such as the Bienal de Sevilla, the Flamenco Festival de EEUU , the bienal de Málaga, Festival de Jerez, Cante de las Minas in La Unión, Festival Caja Madrid, and abroad in locations such as the Sidney Opera House, Teatro Chaillot in Paris, Sadlers wells in London and many others.
In 2011 he presented his first solo album, and began to focus on his own career as a solo artist, invited by the Instituto Cervantes to participate in the Festival de Músicas Sadras del Mundo in Fez.
In 2012 he reached the final of the Cante de las Minas de la Unión in the category of Bulerías.
 

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