GRANAÍNA is a flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

style of singing and guitar

Guitar

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 playing from Granada

Granada

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Belonging to the fandango

Fandango

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family of cante

Canté

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s, it was originally danceable, but now has lost its rhythm, is much slower, and is usually only sung or played as a guitar solo.
The famous singer Don Antonio Chacón (1869–1929) is attributed with freeing the granaína from its rhythmic ties and making it popular.
Singers usually finish their rendering of the granaína with a media granaína, a similar tune but rising to a higher pitch. Manuel Vallejo (1891–1960) was a famous exponent of this latter cante, or song style