The Odyssey of an Iranian Flamenco Guitarist: «It Is Against My Principles to Play with Veil»

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Puneh Farhani (Teherán, 1988) changed his life a farruca. He was only 18 years old when his classical guitar teacher in the city of Isfahan gave him a flamenco method by Juan Martín, the only one translated into Persian circulating in Iran and that included a cassette with the maestro from Malaga playing alone. «When I got home I put it and it started to sound that farruca. That’s it! Listening to it was enough for the flamenco to enter directly…