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|thumb|right|Vicente Amigo.
Vicente Amigo Girol
(born 1967) is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville. 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 band Salmarina, and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Amaya and José 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.
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Biography
Although he is Sevillian by birth, he was raised and lives in
Córdoba, where he attended his first guitar lessons with
El Tomate and
Merengue de Córdoba, and later, he improved his guitar playing with
Manolo 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 of
Paco de Lucía since childhood, Amigo took part with him in the show "Leyendas de la guitarra" (Legends of the Guitar) that was held in
Seville as a foretaste of the Expo 92 exhibition, which also featured
Paco 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 to
Rafael 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
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De mi Corazón al Aire
(1991)
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Vivencias Imaginadas
(1995)
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Poeta
(1997)
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Ciudad de las Ideas
(2000)
# ''Ciudad de las Ideas - en concierto desde Córdoba" (Live DVD) (2004)
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Un Momento en el Sonido
(2005)
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Paseo De Gracia
(2009)