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 operaciĂłn triunfo singing a jota in a gala. jotas are a traditional iberian genre of music that was born and is associated with aragĂłn. 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, magallĂłn.
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 :)
