Arafo cause for celebration

[Guanche]

And the winner is Sislena Caparrosa Sislena Caparrosa 15 years, is the winner of 'Tu Si Que Vales' an 'X' Factor type programme on Telecinco.
The 15 year old school girl from Arafo won with a powerful performance of Puccini 'Nesun Dorma' She has had no vocal training what so ever which makes her performance quite outstanding. She is now being sent to a music school and will no doubt go on the great things.

Enjoy!

[Janet]

It's been all over the papers here today ... and it is utterly shameful that they weren't remotely interested when she was trying to get anywhere with her music. "Denied at every turn in the Canaries", is basically the bottom line.

Hope she does brilliantly. The Canarians should be looking at offering help to such talent rather than cramming a street sign designer relative's pockets ...

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

JESUS CHRIST.  A short pause while I blow my nose and my goosebumps go down.  She seriously can sing.  No training and she can sing one of the most inspiring arias ever written.  My gosh, I hope I have the privilege of paying to see her sing, perhaps at the Auditorio, one day.  Anyplace! 

And here I thought the thread was going to be about Guanche's victory over the barking dog.  Shows how wrong you can be. 

Muchas gracias Guanche.

[NAH]

Only 15....Bloody hell. I'm certainly no expert but it sounded amazing to me.

Thanks for posting Guanche.

[Briz]

WOW

[El Profesor]

Love Arafo

It's been all over the papers here today ... and it is utterly shameful that they weren't remotely interested when she was trying to get anywhere with her music. "Denied at every turn in the Canaries", is basically the bottom line.

Do we have a link to qualify those comments.

In my experience these islands are dripping with musical talent .... most large villages have municipal music schools which are very accessible, subsidised by both the Cabildo and the Ayuntamientos to the point of peanuts. The worst bit is buying the instrument, but they even have grants for that if you demonstrate poverty.
Not sure about Arafo, but here in the south you can get some seriously good musical training, aiming at access to the conservatory, for 150 - 300 € a year depending on which council and intensity of tuition. It seems that this girl can't read music which would mean her family must be fairly poor.

The internationally renown tenor Jorge de Leon went down a different route, he flourished in Canarian folk singing and was discovered that way.
 
So let's say in the case of this girl we are talking extreme poverty ... even so, somehow she managed to to spend three months singing in the choir at the Conservatory in Santa Cruz.
It sounds to me that they are playing up the drama of the hard road to success a la Simon Cowell.
If you are talented musically, Canarias is a pretty good place to be. A lot of opportunities, disproportionate to the size of the population and irrespective of the political corruption.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Love your perspective.  Haven't been here nearly so long so can't gainsay it.  But truly enjoy it.

[El Profesor]

Arafo are in for a treat this evening -
The battle of the string orchestras from around the island.

And in the candidates from Arona . . . probably the smallest  . . . .  the two mini profs will be performing.

Tall violinist  is daughter with her elder brother as specially invited percussionist.

I wish I could go, they rarely play together.

[Guanche]

Wish I had known earlier Prof, I would have been in the back whooping and whistling....at the end of the performance of course! Unfortunately I have been invited to the BIL for dinner, since he's helping me with the fricking BBVA I can't really cancel. Good luck to the two little Prof's, but I'm sure they don't need it

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

PLEASE post a video!