Vicente Amigo presented in 2017 a new work that resumed his purest flamenco register after some incursion into fusion. Called Memoria de los Sentidos, it was actually a show that he later recorded under the same name for Sony Music. It features collaborations with El Pele and Pedro el Granaino. His repertoire includes a new soleá (Sevilla) and a song dedicated to Paco de Lucía (Réquiem), and it is also the artist’s first incursion into seguiriyas and tientos. Undoubtedly, an essential album to get to know the best and most mature Vicente Amigo. Approx. 15 €
Learn from the greats
Vicente says that when he was a child he saw a concert by Paco de Lucía and wanted to become a good guitarist. This Sevillian born in Cordoba had his first Spanish guitar at the age of eight. His first teachers were El Tomate and El Merengue, after which he became a pupil of Manolo Sanlúcar and, years later, met his idol and collaborated with him.
To his credit, the Premio de la Música, the Medalla de Andalucía and a Grammy for his album Ciudad de las Ideas . He was nominated for the Dutch Edison Awards in the World Music category. www.vicenteamigo.com
The guitarist, who has mixed flamenco and jazz like his friend Paco de Lucía, comments on his vision of flamenco:“I start from flamenco and I like to bring it closer to other musical expressions to find the emotion, although I always try not to distort any of them” .