Be careful on the Andalusian Crush
We cannot understand Andalusia without the Andalusians. Nor can we understand it without those Andalusians who shaped its history. Those who gave new meanings to the word "Art.". To poetry. To music. To duende. To the pride of being Andalusian. Because Andalusia would not be Andalusia without Seneca and his prudent wisdom. The world would be different without Trajan. The Spanish language improved with Andalusia, not only because of the richness of its lexicon but also because of its great writers. What would Spanish be without Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Vicente Aleixandre... The metaphor reached the climax of the literary figure thanks to a man from Granada named Lorca. And what about painting? Seville saw the birth of the greatest, Don Diego Velázquez, and Art was reinvented by a man from Malaga, named Pablo Picasso. And music. Oh, music! For the first time, UNESCO recognized a sound native to a land as a heritage: Flamenco. And that Flamenco, so much ours, so well represented by Paco de Lucía, la Jurado, Camarón, or Morente, does not prevent contemporary music from having other geniuses in Andalusia, like Falla, or its greatest rhapsodist: Joaquín Sabina.