They were of course the popular and loved Las Grecas, they were the band that redefine all the flamenco music, they were the pioneers and one of the most important way-out figures not only in the music scene, in the society as well and specially for the gypsy women´s lifes in that time.
When I was talking before about the creative explotion in the seventies, las grecas were dautleslí the evént that sparked off this explotion,
Of course we have precedents before but they never got the relevance they achieved becoming a mass phenomenon, changing radically the point of view about flamenco, fashion, sound production, sound live peformance in a area that women were not expected to embrace, performing progressive rock like Jimmy Hendrix or funk like Steve Wonder.
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