You’ll love the following clip of Estefania “Esther” Aranda, one of our teachers on the Flamenco Tour to Jerez dancing when she was just a little girl.
Wow!
Here is a coletilla Antonio Malena sings her:
Bulerías
Traditional
Lerelele, lerelelo
Zapatitos negros me pongo yo
He’s singing that he’s going to wear black shoes…
I’ve also heard a version where the shoes are white:
Ay lerelele, ay lerelelo
Zapatos blancos me pongo yo
(You can hear El Londro sing that version here.)
You see two of our other teachers from the Flamenco Tour to Jerez in the clip, Mercedes Ruíz and Ana María López.
(You can watch Mercedes dance during that same performance here.)
And you can watch a more recent video of Esther dancing bulerías here.
A Note About Letras Here:
I used to post a letra with an English translation each week, The Weekly Letra.
I stopped publishing those a couple of years ago for a variety of reasons, but I would like to start sharing letras with you again. I don’t plan to do it every week, but perhaps I’ll post one every month.
Other Letras You Hear in the Clip:
This one first
Followed by this one
I took the cover picture during bulerías class with Esther on the last Flamenco Tour to Jerez.