Vicente Amigo: Thumbs up from Pat Metheny

Here’s Flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo-  Live in Mont de Marsan (1999).

This a Bulerias-Mix of the songs “Dulce Amor” from the album “Poeta” and El Mandaito from the album “Vivencias Imaginadas”.

MOHAMED BERRIAH over at YouTube had this to say about the music?
“assalam flamenco music has roots Arab and Islamic tradition resource authentic c in the blood of Spanish flamenco musicians cl andalusia“

Who is Vicente Amigo?

“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 Albumand the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.

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 inSeville 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.” more here

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“Championed by maestro Paco de Lucía as the next great flamenco star, Spanish guitarist Vicente Amigo has more than lived up to his promise. Following in de Lucía’s footsteps, he’s forged musical ties with artists around the world, from Sting to Brazilian masters Milton Nascimento and Eliane Elias to jazz guitar innovators including John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. Born outside of Seville and raised in Córdoba, Amigo began working professionally as a teen, accompanying noted flamenco singer El Pele and guitarist Manolo Sánlucar, with whom he toured for six years. By the time Amigo made his Bay Area debut in 2002, the guitarist’s career was in rapid ascent.”  finish reading

Quite a resume for sure. But check out this quote…

“The greatest guitarist alive.” — Pat Metheny

Here’s Vicente Amigo’s latest album available at Amazon