Un tablao en otro mundo

In the 50s of the last century, Spanish flamingos began to travel to Japan. Artists such as Chiquito de la Calzada, Tomás de Madrid or Cristina Hoyos did it for very long periods. But geniuses like Antonio Gades and Paco de Lucía also began to fill the Japanese theaters. They are responsible for the passion for flamenco that began to spread in Japan. This book talks about all those flamenco artists, their origins and their fascinating experiences in that far and unknown East. And it also explains the history of many of the Japanese who came to the Spain of the Dictatorship, leaving everything, to fulfill their most unusual destiny: to become flamingos. Some found money, fame and respect in Japan. They also met some Japanese who were the perfect victims for their picaresque... because if something characterizes flamingos it is laughing at everything and taking life as it comes. The others found in flamenco an art as ancestral as it was complex, the way of expressing themselves and breaking social repression. And those Japanese took care to understand flamenco, to decipher it and learn it until, somehow, they have made it their own. This is the amazing story of how flamenco conquered the soul of the Japanese.