How to play flamenco guitar

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Requiem - From Vicente Amigo to Paco de Lucia - Tutorial

Requiem is a piece included in the LP "Memoria de los sentidos" (2017)
It´s a memorial to Pacode Lucia with the voice of Vicente Amigo, Niña Pastori, Arcangel, Miguel Poveda, Pedro el granaino and Rafael de Utrera.

"Será la tierra, serán los soles, mares y lunas quienes te añoren. Será el flamenco que, con más fuerza, te eche de menos y a ti te añore. Será Sevilla, será Triana, será Santiago, “Cai” y “Graná”. Serán mis sueños por siempre tuyos, será la tierra seca y mojada."

Original track

Tutorial

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Vicente Amigo

from Wikipedia

Vicente Amigo Girol (born 25 March 1967) is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist, born in Guadalcanal near Seville. He has played as an accompanying guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers Camarón de la Isla, and Luis de Córdoba, and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Ciudad de las Ideas won the 2001 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.

Amaya and José Mercé. His album

Biography
Amigo was raised in Córdoba, where he took guitar lessons and later improved his playing with Manolo Sanlúcar, with whom he worked for ten years. After a period of accompaniment which began alongside El Pele, he started to devote himself almost exclusively to playing concerts in 1988. De Mi Corazón al Aire ("From Out of My Heart", 1991) was his first solo record. An admirer of Paco de Lucía since childhood, Amigo took part with him in the show "Leyendas de la guitarra" (Legends of the Guitar) that was held in Seville.
Amigo has taken part in recordings by Khaled, Miguel Bosé, Carmen Linares, Manolo Sanlúcar, Wagner Tiso, Rosario, Nacho Cano, Alejandro Sanz, Sting, etc., and has shared the stage with the greatest of contemporary artists: Paco de Lucía, Stanley Jordan, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Milton Nascimento.

Discography