Declaring a liking for flamenco used to be problematic for the Anglo-Saxon temperament. We were rightly scornful of cod-Latin acts like Dorita y Pepe (who were Dorothy and Pete from south London) or ...

“Paco is the greatest flamenco guitar player of all time, and he killed flamenco,” another great Paco said to me in 1998, when I was living in Seville studying the flamenco guitar. Paco Valdepeñas was ...

Witnessing a performance of flamenco music, with percussive guitar strumming that’s alternately lyrical and explosive and equally expressive dancing that sometimes accompanies the playing, it’s easy ...

Adrienne White looks back at the life of Paco de Lucia World-renowned Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia has died aged 66 in Mexico, reportedly of a heart attack while playing with his children on a ...

Paco de Lucia, the guitar playing “pioneer” who brought flamenco to an international audience, has died at the age of 66. The lauded musician, who had performed for more than five decades and who is ...