After we wrote about the meaning of the murmers and shouts of Olé we heard at a stunning Estrella Morente concert, reader Hannah alerted us to Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk ,”Your Elusive Creative Genius”, in which she speaks about the origins of Olé, and why the “Olé’s” we heard sounded like “Alé”. We excerpted…
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At a concert of Andalusian-born Flamenco singer Estrella Morente, whose often wild, incredibly expressive and complex singing is legendary in Spain, members of the audience would occasionally say “Olé”, as would Morante and her accompanists when one of them was performing particularly moving or daring passages. This is not bull-fighting olé most Westerners know of.
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