The alegrías is a flamenco style that is nourished by other styles such as the panaderos, the coplas romanceadas, the seguiriyas, the rosas (other types of cantiñas), the old fandangos from Cádiz and the jaleos. Although the fundamental basis of the alegrías are the jotas, specifically Navarran-Aragonese, a genre that came to Cádiz during the French occupation.

It is for this reason that the original letters of this flamenco style alluded to the Virgen del Pilar, the Ebro river and Navarra. In this way the jota from Cádiz emerged, a style that has evolved to become the joys, as we know them today.