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A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but with lower action, [1] thinner tops and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings, like the classical guitar, but it generally possesses a livelier, more gritty sound compared to the classical guitar. [2] It is used in toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of flamenco.
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Rafael Riqueni del Canto (Sevilla, August 16, 1962), is a Spanish guitar player and composer. He is considered as one of the biggest names or “Maestros” in flamenco guitar history. [1][2][3] At age fourteen, he won the two main national awards for flamenco guitar in Spain. [4] As an adult, he has won the most prestigious flamenco music ...
Roni Benisek, best known as Benise, is an American guitarist who describes his style as "Spanish guitar" or "nouveau flamenco." After growing up in Ravenna, Nebraska, Benise moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue rock stardom. After hearing flamenco music on the radio, he switched from electric guitar to nylon-stringed classical guitar.
Casares won the National Bordón Minero Guitar Prize at the age of 16 years. [2] [11] He is the recipient of Nacional del Primer Concurso de Guitarra in Jaén, Spain, the 37th Festival del Cante de las Miñas de la Union in Murcia and the Thomson Music Best Artiste of the Year Award in 2000. [12]
Paco de Lucía was born on 21 December 1947 [5] as Francisco Sánchez Gómez in Algeciras, [6] province of Cádiz, in southern Spain.He was the youngest of the five children of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sánchez Pecino and Portuguese mother Lúcia Gomes; [7] his brothers include flamenco singer Pepe de Lucía and flamenco guitarist Ramón de Algeciras (now deceased).