"Since I was a very young girl, my five senses are too focused on art for anything, be it clothes, fame or easy musical arrangements, to cloud my head over".
She is a great prospect for flamenco. The profession is deep-rooted in her. When she was four she sang cantes de Levante; when she was seven, she recorded with the guitar master Sabicas; and at sixteen, she impressed thousands of persons when she sang in the opening ceremony of the skiing world championships in Sierra Nevada.
Her artistry has dazzled both the most demanding flamencologists, and rock artists like Lenny Kravitz. She has the right genetic code to do it. Her father, Enrique Morente, is the greatest revolutionary in flamenco singing and she has worked with him on many projects. Her mother Aurora, a bailaora known as La Pelota, comes from a large flamenco dynasty from Madrid, to which her uncle, the cantaor Antonio Carbonell, also belongs, as does her grandfather, the guitarist Montoyita, to whom she dedicated her first work, Mi cante y un poema.
Estrella Morente has given solo performances in the main Spanish cities, she has worked with the Joaquín Cortés company, she has featured in the soundtracks of the films Sobreviviré and Buñuel y la mesa del Rey Salomón. Furthermore, she won an Ondas award for the best flamenco record and has been nominated for a Grammy and two Amigo prizes.
