By THIRSTY
In the early 1980s, virtuoso flamenco
guitarist, composer and producer Paco de Lucía assembled a sextet that would
forever change the sound of flamenco. He
died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Mexico in 2014 at the age of 66.
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Fifty
years after the release of his first recording, entitled La fabulosa guitarra de Paco
de Lucía (The Fabulous Guitar of Paco de Lucía)(1967), ten-time Latin Grammy winner and producer Javier Limón, who
won a Latin Grammy with de Lucia for Cositas
Buenas, created the Paco de Lucía Project as a tribute to de Lucía’s and
his legacy.
With Antonio Sánchez
(guitar), Antonio Serrano (harmonica), Alain Pérez (bass), Israel Suárez
“Piraña” (percussion), David de Jacoba (vocals) and Antonio Fernández “Farruco”
(dance), Limón has memorialized the power
and originality of the legendary flamenco guitarist by
reassembling the band that toured with him for the last ten years of his
career.
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Thirsty Magazine is proud to present this video from the Paco de Lucía
Project for those who might not know about the music of one of the world’s most
influential guitarists.