Álvaro Romero (El Puerto de Santa María, 1983) is a singer, performer and activist. His work is based on traditional flamenco singing to deploy a critical practice that creates tension within the forms of flamenco and crosses them with dissident texts, queer memories and gestures of poetic insurrection. He erases his first surname as a symbolic act: singing from the matriarchy. He has collaborated with artists such as Angélica Liddell, Andrés Marín, Rakel Camacho, Fernando López and Rafael Villalobos. He has transformed singing into a vehicle for action, words and ritual. Along with Toni MarXn, he forms RomeroMarXn, a sound project that connects flamenco and electronic music through texts by authors such as Pedro Lemebel and Miguel Benlloch. His work has travelled across Europe, America and Asia, always with one foot on the shore. In 2022 he premiered “Yeli Yeli” at the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla and in 2023 he participated in “Coronada y el toro”, by Francisco Nieva, at the Teatro Español. Romero sings to resist. To invoke the absent bodies. For flamenco to return to being – as it was in its origins – a place of margins and of truth.