Huelva pays tribute to José Luis de la Paz

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The streets will be impregnated with your notes, / they will be filled with tears and pain left behind by your footsteps / if from your heart, Miguel, mother-of-pearl tears flow / ayyyyyyy, in your hands God became a guitar.

It was just under two weeks ago when the day became even more grey than it had dawned. Huelva was left a little more orphaned of art and the flamencoWe had the impression that our streets were permeated with notes full of tears and pain for footsteps that were leaving us. The feeling of one of the flamencos most important of the last sixty years of our land, at an early age. We had left Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jose Luis de la PazWhat a huge dagger was stuck in our feelings. I myself felt the need to externalize the loss, but I couldn't, I was left empty of them and decided that it was better to remember him with the last chronicle in which he made me feel, as only those who play as they are, with their particular inner magic and humility do. If that day, almost a year before, he made us cry with emotion with his eternal tremolo Child Michael, affraid to die (lyrics reproduced in the first paragraph), now we are left with the fear to know that we will not find it in our streets and that probably the mother-of-pearl tears will slide down our cheeks as we remember him.

Almost without giving us time to accept the news, we learned that the Huelva City Council Days before the tragic event, he had awarded the city medal to José Luis, who was unable to receive it personally. His brother did so on behalf of the family Jorge Garcia de la Torre, this together with the tribute that artists from Huelva and beyond will pay him on Saturday, February 1, at the Great theater, was the reaction to an early, painful and, for the vast majority, unexpected departure.

«José Luis de la Paz has been a renowned artist and composer, who has worked and collaborated with leading figures in the art flamenco throughout his long professional life. His musical and bohemian culture captured us in conversations, always leaving us with an aftertaste that will be difficult to forget.

The event, sponsored by Cadena SER, Huelva Information, Huelva City Council, the Professional College of Journalists of Huelva and the Huelva Press Association, will be presented and conducted by Ramon Arroyo Parazuelo. Artists of the stature of will attend Carmen Linares, Marina Heredia, The Freckles, Juan Jose Amador, Enrique the Extremaduran, Jose Mendez, David Lagos, Jesus Corbacho, Manuel Gago, Pepe el Marismeño, Ana de Caro, Archangel, Juan Carlos Romero, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Dani de Moron, Alfredo Lagos, Francis Gomez, Paco Cruzado, Manuel de la Luz, Paco Iglesias, Paco Jarana, Israel Galvan, Eva Yerbabuena, El Junco, Siudy Garrido, Lito Manez, The Mellis, Cheito, Miguel Ortega, Second Falcon, El Turri, Mercedes Cortes, Molina Sisters, as well as members of the PeñaFlamenco singers from the city, the Polyphonic Choir of La Rábida and the poet and writer Juan Cobos Wilkins. The collaboration of sound technicians Eduardo Ruiz and Maxi will be available.

José Luis de la Paz has been a renowned artist and composer, who has worked and collaborated with leading figures in the art flamenco throughout his long professional life. A few years ago he settled in Miami (United States), where he redirected his career. From time to time he visited our land, being a person loved by everyone and easily accessible. His musical and bohemian culture captured us in conversations, always leaving us with an aftertaste that will be difficult to forget.

From this platform I urge all fans in general flamencos, not only from Huelva, but from all geographies, to participate in a more than deserved tribute or to collaborate in the zero row opened for this purpose. There will be no better way to thank an artist, a great person, for his great personal contribution to the history of the flamenco.