Paco de Lucía
Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947-2014)
- Fame57.5
- Momentum0.0
- Wikipedia30.2K
SpainHe turned flamenco guitar into something it had never been — faster, stranger, jazzier — and in doing so became the form's first global virtuoso. Clapton called him titanic. The fingerwork was almost violent in its precision.
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Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez was born on 21 December 1947 in Spain and took the stage name Paco de Lucía. His fast, fluent picados and willingness to splice abstract chords and jazz scales into flamenco structure broke the form open in the 1970s, helping invent new flamenco and Latin jazz fusion. He recorded ten albums with singer Camarón de la Isla during that decade — work now considered foundational to flamenco history. Collaborations with John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, and Larry Coryell in the late 1970s brought him audience outside Spain; his 1981 sextet with his brothers and a 1990 alb…
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- Sobre el Olivar2023
- Guitar Recital2015
- El Flamenco es... Paco de Lucía2010
- Flamenco Best Selection2002
- Flamenco Romantico2000
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