Vicente Amigo

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Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo
Background information
Birth name	Vicente Amigo Girol
Born	(1967-03-25) March 25, 1967
Origin	Guadalcanal, Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Genres	Flamenco music, Jazz
Occupations	Musician, composer
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1988–present
Associated acts	El Pele, Camarón de la Isla, José Mercé, Manolo Sanlúcar, Merengue de Córdoba
Website	www.vicente-amigo.com

Vicente Amigo Girol (born 25 March 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^[1] and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.

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 Out of My Heart", 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.

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

De mi corazón al aire (1991)
Vivencias Imaginadas (1995)
Poeta (1997)
Ciudad de las Ideas (2000)
Ciudad de las Ideas - en concierto desde Córdoba(Live DVD) (2004)
Un Momento en el Sonido (2005)
Paseo De Gracia (2009)
"Vivencias" La Obra Completa de un Genio (2010)
Tierra (2013)

References

↑ Harrigan, Tom (1 November 2001). "Alejandro Sanz takes top Latin Grammys in terror-delayed ceremony". The Register-Guard. p. 3D. Retrieved 18 June 2013.

External links

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 43975053 LCCN: no2002101903 ISNI: 0000 0001 1631 0095 GND: 132411474 BNF: cb13982554k

Persondata
Name	Amigo, Vicente
Alternative names
Short description	Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist
Date of birth	25 March 1967
Place of birth	Guadalcanal
Date of death
Place of death

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