It is hard to express the satisfaction I get from having brilliant musicians perform when I interview them for NY1 Noticias. In the case of flamenco star Niño Josele, I could barely make a question after watching him play the guitar as if he was walking through an automatic door.
A few minutes earlier, ha had interrupted his improvisation by saying with a smile: “What a hard-to-play instrument the guitar is!” I didn’t know if he was joking. He wasn’t.
In this interview, he explains with more musical notes than words how he can go from Bill Evans to flamenco in what to him is a flick of the wrist.
WATCH.
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José Simián (1975) is a New York-based bilingual marketer, content strategist and editor. His articles and columns on politics, media and culture have been published by the New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, Etiqueta Negra, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias, and Executive Editor of Manero. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn.
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