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Paco de Lucía
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Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez, known professionally as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish guitarist, composer, and jazz musician. Born in Algeciras, Spain, on December 21, 1947, he began his work period in 1963. He performed genres including jazz, flamenco, classical music, and jazz fusion. His siblings were Ramón de Algeciras and Pepe de Lucía, and he taught Juan Martín.
De Lucía received the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, and Latin Grammy Awards. He recorded for Island Records and spoke Spanish. He died of a myocardial infarction on February 25, 2014, in Playa del Carmen, Cancun, due to natural causes.
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Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain
Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic…
Known for
- Camarón: The Film — Él mismo (Imagen de archivo)2018
- Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda2014
- Cachitos de hierro y cromo — Self (archive footage)2013
- Flamenco Flamenco — Himself2010
- Paco De Lucia - Live At 31st Leverkusener Jazztage — Himself / Acoustic Guitar2010
- The Shadow of the Strings — Himself2009
- Paco de Lucia & Group — Himself2004
- Francisco Sánchez - Paco de Lucía — Himself2002
- Pavarotti & Friends 4 - For War Child — Self1996
- Flamenco1995
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
- Active from
- 1947
- Active to
- 2014
Discography
- Los chiquitos de Algeciras1963
- Dos guitarras flamencas en stereo1964
- 12 canciones de García Lorca para guitarra1965
- 12 éxitos para 2 guitarras flamencas1965
- Canciones andaluzas para 2 guitarras1967
- Dos guitarras flamencas en América Latina1967
- La fabulosa guitarra de Paco de Lucía1967
- 12 hits para 2 guitarras flamencas y orquesta de cuerda1969
- En Hispanoamérica1969
- Fantasía flamenca de Paco de Lucía1969
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 367,739
- Total plays
- 4,316,579
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Paco de Lucía was a pseudonym of Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist Francisco Sánchez Gómez (b. 21 Dec 1947 in Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain - d. 26 Feb 2014). He was considered a master of rasgueados / picados and was capable of playing with blinding speed on the flamenco guitar. He was the youngest of five children, the son of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sánchez, and brother of flamenco singer Pepe de Lucía and flamenco guitarist Ramón de Algeciras, he adopted the stage name Paco de Lucía in honor
Described at
About: Paco de Lucía
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Algeciras
- Place of death
- Cancun
- Sibling
- Pepe de Lucía
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- jazz fusion
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Island Records
- Official website
- pacodelucia.org
- Image
- Paco de Lucia 2.jpg
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- date of death
- 2014-00-00
- Commons category
- Paco de Lucía
- date of birth
- 1947-00-00
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- second family name in Spanish name
- Gómez
- pseudonym
- Paco de Lucía
- different from
- Paco de Lucena
- name in native language
- Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez
- student
- Juan Martín
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
- described at URL
- data.bnf.fr/#foaf:Person
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Paco de Lucía, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ɡusˈt̪a.β̞o ˈsantʃeθ ˈɣomeθ]; 21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (Spanish: [ˈpako ðe luˈθi.a]), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic figure in the world of flamenco guitar", and Dennis Koster, author of Guitar Atlas, Flamenco, has referred to de Lucía as "one of history's greatest guitarists".
De Lucía was noted for his fast and fluent picados (fingerstyle runs). A master of contrast, he often juxtaposed picados and rasgueados (flamenco strumming) with more sensitive playing and was known for adding abstract chords and scale tones to his compositions with jazz influences. These innovations played a key role in the development of traditional flamenco and the evolution of new flamenco and Latin jazz fusion from the 1970s. He received acclaim for his recordings with flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla in the 1970s, recording ten albums which are considered some of the most important and influential in flamenco history.
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