Frederico Garcia Lorca wrote this paradigm of a singer possessed by duende, who was once one of the most famous singers (1890-1969). She is a legend! You often hear her letras still performed today.
"Once, the Andalusian singer Pastora Pavon, La Nina de los Peines, dark hispanic genius, the equivalent in capacity for fantasy as Goya and Rafael el Gallo sang in a little tavern in Cadiz. She played with her voice of shade, with her voice of melted pewter, with her moss covered voice and she tangled it in her hair, or wet it in manzanilla wine, or lost in some dark, far away cordials. But for nothing; it was in vain. The listeners remained silent. Pastora Pavon stopped singing in the middle of the silence."
