Sabicas

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Sabicas (right) with Paco Peña

Sabicas ( Agustín Castellón Campos ; * probably 1912 in Pamplona ; † April 14, 1990 in New York City ) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist. He shaped playing techniques and helped flamenco to gain international fame.

At the age of five he began to teach himself to play the guitar as an autodidact . He is distantly related to Ramón Montoya , who influenced his early game. At the age of ten he gave his first concert in a Madrid theater. With Carmen Amaya he went to South America after the Franco putsch in 1936. He moved to New York City in the 1950s, where he recorded the early fusion album Rock Encounter with Joe Beck in 1966 , which was not released until 1970. He was in contact with jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus , Ben E. King , Gil Evans , Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis . He was the teacher of Paco de Lucía . It was not until 1967 that he appeared again sporadically in Spain. Under changed political conditions there was an album with Enrique Morente in 1989 . The Sanfermines of 1982 were dedicated to him. Sabicas died in a New York hospital where he was being treated for a stroke and pneumonia.

Discographic notes

  • The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero (1959)
  • Flamenco puro (1961)
  • Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars (with Mario Escudero )
  • Flamenco Reflections (1963)
  • El rey del flamenco (1965)
  • La historia del flamenco (1969)
  • Rock Encounter (with Joe Beck , 1970)
  • The Art of the Guitar (1976)

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personal data
SURNAME Sabicas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campos, Agustin Castellón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish flamenco guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pamplona
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1990
Place of death New York City