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Vicente Amigo

Vicente Amigo (* 25. March 1967 in Guadalcanal Sevilla , Spain ) is a Spanish flamenco - guitarist and composer .

Live and act

Vicente Amigo grew up in Cordoba , where he still lives today.

Amigo was considered a child prodigy. He started playing the guitar at the age of 4 and received lessons from Merengue de Córdoba and Munoz Exposito at the age of 8 . He received classical training in composition, playing technique and improvisation . Later he developed his own style, which combines classical flamenco and modern elements and he experimented with new tunings of the guitar and also played the sitar .

At the age of 16 began a ten-year collaboration with the guitarist and composer Manolo Sanlúcar .

He then worked for a while with the singer El Pele. He started composing and in 1991 signed a contract with the Sony label . In 1996 he was both soloist and producer of José Mercés Del Amanecer . He toured with José Mercé and made guest appearances at major European festivals.

Amigo won several prizes and made numerous recordings, some of which were awarded gold and platinum. In 2001 one of his recordings received a Latin Grammy . In 2003 he resumed his collaboration with El Pele, with whom he made recordings, some of them with his own compositions. In 2005 he went on a world tour with his own orchestra and choir, which was put together for this purpose.

Amigo has worked on numerous productions by other artists - including Pepe de Lucía , Sting , David Bisbal , Niña Pastori .

For his CD Tierra (2013) he experimented with combining different compositional styles, combining flamenco and Celtic folk. He was awarded a gold medal by the Spanish government.

Discography

In addition to recordings with various flamenco singers, u. a. Camarón de la Isla , Carmen Linares , José Mercé and El Pele , the following solo albums have been released:

  • 1991: De mi corazón al aire
  • 1995: Vivencias imaginadas
  • 1997: Poeta
  • 2000: Ciudad de las ideas
  • 2004: Ciudad de las ideas (DVD)
  • 2005: Un momento en el sonido
  • 2009: Paseo de gracia
  • 2010: Vivencias - La obra completa de un genio
  • 2013: Tierra
  • 2017: Memoria de los sentidos

Awards

  • 2001: Latin Grammy in the Best Flamenco Album category for Ciudad de las Ideas

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 127.
  2. ↑ Vicente Amigo | Biography & History. Retrieved December 8, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ vicente amigo tabs - transcriptions en PDF et tablatures sous Guitar Pro / Tux guitar - par Jacques HERLENT. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Alejandro Sanz takes top Latin Grammys in terror-delayed ceremony in The Register-Guard (accessed April 22, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Amigo, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish flamenco guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Guadalcanal (Seville) , Spain