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Antonio Carbonell

Antonio Carbonell was born the 30th of November 1969 in Madrid. He is a Spanish singer-songwriter of Romani heritage, belonging to a generation of "new flamencos" that manage to combine traditional and modern music.

He belongs to a family involved in flamenco music: his father is the "cantaor" Montoyita, and his cousins, the members of the popular flamenco-pop band Ketama, wrote his Eurovision entry.

He was popular for his collaborations with important flamenco artists when he released his first album Ilusiones. In 1996 he was chosen internally by TVE as the Spanish representative for the 41st Eurovision Song Contest, and published his second album, ¡Ay, Qué Deseo!. Apart from his two solo albums, he has contributed to several flamenco compilation albums, like Cante Gitano or Esencias Flamencas.

He is currently music producer for the Spanish dancer Joaquin Cortes, and has not stopped stepping on stage accompanying other artists like his niece, Estrella Morente.

Ketama

The composers happened to be Ketama, a popular Spanish New Flamenco group. Fusing flamenco with other musical styles (salsa, Brazilian music, reggae, funk, jazz), they created their own sound that lied somewhere between flamenco and salsa-pop. The brothers Antonio, Juan and Josemi Carmona made up the trio, named after a Morocan region in the heart of Rif. They disbanded in 2004, after 20 years and more than 15 albums together.

Lyrics of ¡Ay, Qué Deseo!

Quise buscar las huellas bajo tus pies
Quise mirar al cielo y ser
Un horizonte de estrellas y mar
Y navegar por esos mares de coral

Buscaré
Allí donde mi sueños se hagan realidad
Atarme con tu pelo

Ay, qué deseo
Provoca tu piel
Sigo tus huellas
De caramelo y miel

Entre la espuma y ser
Ser del ancho mar
Hacer de tu mirar
Ecos de un edén
Entre la espuma y ser
Atarme en tu interior
Ecos del amor
Un verso y una flor

Ay, qué deseo
Provoca tu piel
Sigo tus huellas
De caramelo y miel

Quise buscar las huellas bajo tus pies
Quise mirar al cielo y ser
Un horizonte de estrellas y mar
Y navegar por esos mares de coral

Buscaré
Allí donde mi sueños se hagan realidad
Atarme con tu pelo

Ay, qué deseo
Provoca tu piel
Sigo tus huellas
De caramelo y miel
I wanted to find
the prints under your feeet
I wanted to look
at the sky and be
a horizon of stars and sea
and sail accross those coral and seas.

I'll try there, where my dreams come true,
to blind myself to your hair.

Oh! I want you so!
Your skin calls me so
I follow your sweetened
and honeyed footsteps.

Between the foam and being,
being from the wide seas,
turning your look
into echoes of eden,

Between the foam and being,
binding myself to your inner self,
reberverations of love,
a verse and a flower.

Oh! I want you so!
Your skin calls me so
I follow your sweetened
and honeyed footsteps.

I wanted to find
the prints under your feeet
I wanted to look
at the sky and be
a horizon of stars and sea
and sail accross those coral and seas.

I'll try there, where my dreams come true,
to blind myself to your hair.

Oh! I want you so!
Your skin calls me so
I follow your sweetened
and honeyed footsteps.