Álvaro Paños –Flamenco Dancer
With a degree in Spanish Dance from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Cordoba and in Classical Ballet from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Seville, he is one of the most notable young Andalusian talents, with a very personal and emotional dancing style filled with inspiration and energy.

Carolina Prior – Dancer
A dancer, professor and choreographer, she began her professional dancing career in Spanish dance and classical ballet. In 2006, she opened her own school in Cordoba and founded the Ashira Eastern Dance Company. Thanks to her training in Middle Eastern dance, classical dance, flamenco and Spanish dance, she has created a personal style all her own with a fusion of Arab flamenco, specializing in the Eastern styles of belly dancing and folklore dances, as well as others.

Ashira Middle Eastern Dance Company
Inmaculada Núñez, with a degree in Classical Ballet from the Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Art and Dance of Cordoba, completed her education in contemporary dance, jazz and flamenco. She has been a Middle Eastern dancer since the year 2005.

Lourdes Naz, a Middle Eastern dancer since 2006 at Ashira Danza, specializing in the styles of belly dancing and Bollywood dance, became a member of the Ashira Middle Eastern Dance Company in 2009.

Ana Molina, a Tai Chi professor since 2007, began her training in Eastern Dance in 2004 and became a member of the Ashira Middle Eastern Dance Company in 2009, as part of its cast of dancers.

Sergio de Lope - Flute
From Cordoba, he took up the flute for the first time in order to play flamenco. At the High Music Conservatory in Cordoba, he studies the specialization of Flamencology and forms part of the Cordoba Flamenco Company directed by Faustino Núñez. He has set up his own solo show called A Night in Utrera, as well as taking part in a show by flamenco dancer Daniel Navarro, FIFTY FIFTY. He recently presented the first ever Flamenco Flute Method in the world and is currently recording his first album.

Javier Rabadán - Percussion
Born in Cartagena, he began his classical percussion studies at the Conservatory of Cartagena and Lorca. He is currently a student of Flamencology at the High Music Conservatory of Cordoba and receives courses for perfecting technique from great flamenco percussionist Paquito González, with whom he is being trained on accompaniment for flamenco singing, dance and guitar. He works with jazz, Latin jazz, rock and big band groups, specializing in modern percussion.

Oussama Samsaoui - Violin
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, he studied violin at the Conservatory of Granada and is developing his passion for music by playing an active part in different groups of music from Al-Andalus, and classical and contemporary Arab music. As a concert performer, he has collaborated with the Young Andalusi Orchestra of Tetouan, with the Argentine group Primavera, which plays traditional Arab music, and he has played at several festivals. As well as a concert performer, he is starting out in the field of composition.

José Tomás Jiménez - Flamenco Guitar
A professor of Flamenco Guitar at the Montoro Municipal Music School (Cordoba), he has performed many times as a concert guitarist and has worked as a backup guitarist for singers and dancers since the year of 2008 at flamenco clubs and festivals throughout the provinces and cities of Spain. In 2014, he won First Prize in the “BORDÓN MINERO” Trophy competition, at the International Mines Singing Festival in La Unión (Murcia).

Matías López “el Mati” - Singer
A Catalan with parents from Extremadura who reside in Barcelona, he is one of the best-known flamenco singers at the present time. He is a multifaceted musician, though his forte is singing flamenco, and he works with the finest dancers and musicians in the world of flamenco, including: Esperanza Fernández, Rafael Jiménez “Falo,” “El Pele,” Pepe Habichuela, Chano Domínguez , Jorge Pardo, Manolo Marín, Cristina Hoyos, Antonio Canales, Domingo Ortega, Josemi Carmona, Belén Maya, El Junco, etc.

Aziz Samsaoui - Arabic oud
An instrumentalist with an essentially self-taught background, Samsaoui was born in Marrakesh and educated at the High Al-Andalus Music Conservatory of Tetouan. His interest in ancient, ethnic and traditional style music has led him to progress in a limitless musical career playing different string instruments. At the same time as his work as a cultural role-player and manager of a cultural project design company, he has directed very prestigious festivals and series.

Iman al Kandousi – Singer
Born in Tetouan, she studied Arabian-Andalusian singing and the Arabic oud at the Higher Music Conservatory of Tetouan. Prepared to perform various repertoires of traditional and contemporary music, her voice makes feelings bare, as did the symbolic colors of the five strings on the Arabic oud of Ziryab: yellow (anger), red (blood), blue (the soul), black (melancholy) and white (serenity).