For her, interpretive work is above all an exercise in “interior listening”, a kind of mental composition that must later be re-created with the voice. Mayte controls the “micro-intervals”, the melismas that are interspersed between prolonged notes and that give her cante a fluidity and an unusual melodic elegance. 

Mayte exudes an expressive and personal style founded on a classic base.

Mayte recorded a boleros disk with Tete Montoliú and wrote a handful of yet-to-be-published sublime songs for string quintets before meeting the dancer Belén Maya. Their meeting resulted in the forging of one of the most important and unusual artistic unions in today’s flamenco.

Mayte’s eagerly awaited new recording, Querencia, with Drac-Virgin Records, takes her beginnings even further it provides an in-depth look at the essence of cante and Mayte’s own restlessness as an artist.

Querencia adds rhythmic emphasis without falling into festive clichés it gives melodiousness to the most solemn of flamenco styles without loosing a speck of depth.

Translated by Rita Granda

Muy Fr?gil (K Industria Cultural, 1994)

Free Boleros ( K Industria Cultural, 1996)

Querencia (Virgin Records, 2000)