two OT (operación triunfo) contestants singing the jota "la palomica", famously interpreted by el pastor de andorra. ainara and juanjo are both from aragon. juanjo has won the aragonese tv contest 'jotalent', and apparently he's also competed in the jotas contest celebrated during the fiestas del pilar
i love to see young people singing jotas, especially in a TV contest about pop music <3
i just got this video recommended to me and i thought i should share it here cause it's extremely cool!!! it's two contestants from the spanish singing contest operación triunfo singing a jota in a gala. jotas are a traditional iberian genre of music that was born and is associated with aragón. this year two of the contestants, naiara moreno and juanjo bona, are aragonese, and both have experience singing jotas (juanjo even won a jota singing competition on aragonese tv). the one they are singing here is la magallonera, which originates in juanjo's hometown, magallón.
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this is also relevant cause this week they're finally singing a song together, and they gave them la cigarra, a mexican ranchera from 1950 with some specific vocal challenges that only them could sing because of their training with jotas, they even jokingly refer to their version of the song as the 'mejijota' (as in, the mexican jota). here is a video of them singing la cigarra in the academy :)
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"Oh my god - how much I enjoyed that. At half time I said if we can turn this it is something we can tell our grandkids. I see mine in 10 days so I can tell them."