To all of you, for allowing yourselves to be swept up by my enthusiasm and for making my cause your own. Nelsa, Chico, Guillermo, Vicens, Olvido, Marc… Thank you for your involvement and for the privilege of sharing love and respect, in equal parts, beside you.

I think it was April 2005 when I received the news that the Labèque sisters wanted to collaborate with me on a project based on Spanish music. My heart swelled with pride when I realised that among all the voices that Katia and Marielle could have chosen to bring their project to life, they chose mine. I can honestly say that if I had to choose today, between experiencing either the human or the artistic side of the Labèque sisters, I would choose the first. I have never met two more charming, exquisite, generous women in possession of such extraordinary talent and compassion.

Querencia is the word that best defines the raison d’etre behind this work. It had been a long time since I had used flamenco music to pour so much of myself into an album. And it’s wonderful to recall your musical roots, with no constraints or immobility, with no limitations. I believe that limits are always imposed by people who are incapable of crossing them, and flamenco is my origin, not my yoke.
It has also been incredibly rewarding to realise that evolution, for which I thank time for every day, does not consist in perfecting technique, but in learning how I can work with it and transmit what I feel despite it.

It took me nine months to give birth to TEMPO RUBATO. Like all of my discs, it is a product of love. It is made from life. From everything I gave and from what was given to me. Of the time that love stole from me and of the love that time gave me.

To all of you, for allowing yourselves to be swept up by my enthusiasm and for making my cause your own. Nelsa, Chico, Guillermo, Vicens, Olvido, Marc… Thank you for your involvement and for the privilege of sharing love and respect, in equal parts, beside you.

I think it was April 2005 when I received the news that the Labèque sisters wanted to collaborate with me on a project based on Spanish music. My heart swelled with pride when I realised that among all the voices that Katia and Marielle could have chosen to bring their project to life, they chose mine. I can honestly say that if I had to choose today, between experiencing either the human or the artistic side of the Labèque sisters, I would choose the first. I have never met two more charming, exquisite, generous women in possession of such extraordinary talent and compassion.

Querencia is the word that best defines the raison d’etre behind this work. It had been a long time since I had used flamenco music to pour so much of myself into an album. And it’s wonderful to recall your musical roots, with no constraints or immobility, with no limitations. I believe that limits are always imposed by people who are incapable of crossing them, and flamenco is my origin, not my yoke.
It has also been incredibly rewarding to realise that evolution, for which I thank time for every day, does not consist in perfecting technique, but in learning how I can work with it and transmit what I feel despite it.

It took me nine months to give birth to TEMPO RUBATO. Like all of my discs, it is a product of love. It is made from life. From everything I gave and from what was given to me. Of the time that love stole from me and of the love that time gave me.