The return of Vicente Amigo
One of the world’s great living guitarists plays Redondo Beach Vicente Amigo plays at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on September 20. Photo by Sari Makki Music has coursed through Vicente Amigo since he was a child. At age 3, he saw Paco De Lucia, the greatest flamenco guitarist of this age, playing on television. Something about the sound never again escaped him. As a boy growing up in Cordoba, Spain, he carried a guitar with him everywhere he went. No time and no place was not fit for music; he was an ethereal presence in whatever room he entered, always seemingly on the cusp of song. All he remembers of his childhood was playing guitar. His passion did not go unnoticed. He started formal study of guitar when he was eight with maestros such as “El Merengue” (Rafael Rodríguez Fernández) and “El Tomate” (Juan Muñoz Expósito). At 15, the great Manolo Sanlucar took the boy on as an apprentice, and eventually the legendary singer El Pele took Amigo on tour. Music thereafter would carry Amigo from Spain all across the globe, where by his early 20s he’d shared stages with musicians of every kind, including David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Al Di Meola, and de Lucia. Today Amigo is…
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