- Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo Girol (born 1967) is a Spanish
flamenco composer andvirtuoso guitarist , born inGuadalcanal , nearSeville . He is usually considered one of the greatest living guitarists, in succession toPaco de Lucía .Fact|date=July 2007 He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele,Camarón de la Isla ,Vicente Soto ,Luis de Córdoba and the rociero bandSalmarina , and he has acted as a producer forRemedios Amaya andJosé Mercé . His album "Ciudad de las Ideas" won the 2001 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.Biography
Although he is Sevillian by birth, he was raised and lives in Córdoba, where he attended his first guitar lessons with
El Tomate andMerengue de Córdoba , and later, he perfected his guitar playing withManolo 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 My Heart to the Air", 1991) was his first record. An admirer ofPaco de Lucía since childhood, Amigo took part with him in the show "Leyendas de la guitarra" (Legends of the Guitar) that was held inSeville as a foretaste of the Expo 92 exhibition, which also featuredPaco de Lucía ,Bob Dylan ,Keith Richards ,Steve Vai ,Joe Satriani ,Nuno Bettencourt ,Phil Manzanera ,Joe Cocker ,Jack Bruce and Richard Thompson. By that time, he had already been awarded some of the most prestigious flamenco guitar prizes.In 1992, alongside
Leo Brouwer , he composed and recorded "Concierto Para Un Marinero en Tierra" ("Concert for a Landed Sailor"), a tribute toRafael Alberti , which was included later as part of his album "Poeta" (1997) for which he obtained awards in the Best Flamenco Artist and Best Flamenco Composer categories.Vicente Amigo is open to experimenting, pursuing Flamenco to unprecedented limits, and gaining in-depth knowledge about other forms of music, and sharing experiences with other artists. He 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
# "De mi Corazón al Aire" (1991)
# "Vivencias Imaginadas" (1995)
# "Poeta" (1997)
# "Ciudad de las Ideas" (2000)
# "Un Momento en el Sonido" (2005)External links
* [http://www.vicente-amigo.com/ Vicente Amigo website]
* [http://www.esflamenco.com/bio/en10004.html/ Vicente Amigo Biography and related products]
* [http://jack7.free.fr/amigo.html la guitarra de Vicente Amigo ]
* [http://www.falseta.com/forum/ Flamenco Forum]
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