Concha Buika, from Majorca, Spain, has begun a tour of the US that will carry her from Miami to New York and Washington, where she will showcase the personal style of flamenco that Spanish critics have called a reinvention of the form.

Ms. Buika, an artist of African descent, has previously explained that she took advantage of her contradictions to make her life a world of continuous creation.

Daughter of exiled politicians from Equatorial Guinea, she was born and raised in the chinatown section of Palma de Majorca, listening to flamenco at home with her five brothers and playing with the gypsy children of the neighborhood.

At a young age she combed her hair in the style of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. And thanks to her mother, she overcame her fears through art. “My mother told if there’s something I dare not say, then it can be said through art. In art there is no fear. You can paint, dance, sing, or write poetry”, explained Buika in Miami.

The south of the Florida is the first stop of her tour in the United States with the song “Mi Niña Lola”, a song she would have liked to sing to her grandmother. “When my grandmother was annoyed with someone, and she was so mad she couldn’t speak, she sang what she felt”, the singer said. “Mi Niña Lola” is a song that she didn’t choose because “the song chose me” and she continued that she likes the lyrics so much because they say “Something that deep down we all know. The fact is we are alone”.

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