Conversation with a flamenco master: Vicente Amigo performs in Redondo Beach at the LA Flamenco Festival
Vicente Amigo. Photo by Kathalina Rodriguez Vicente Amigo is known as a man of few words. His music has long spoken for him. Few people on the planet, in this sense, speak as beautifully. “Playing my music is what speaks best for me,” Amigo said in an interview this week, shortly after arriving in Redondo Beach, where he will headline the Los Angeles Flamenco Festival on Saturday night. Amigo is among the great living masters not only of flamenco guitar but of the instrument itself, regardless of genre. He was born in Seville, Spain, and grew up in Cordoba as an apprentice to the great Manolo Sanlucar and later won acclaim accompanying the beloved singer El Pele. As a teenager, his playing earned the attention of the flamenco world within Spain. By his early 20s he had become internationally known, sharing stages with the likes of Stanley Jordan, John McLaughlin, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Milton Nascimento, Al Di Meola, and perhaps the greatest flamenco player of this age, Paco de Lucia. His international fame grew with the release of “Ciudad de Las Ideas (City of Ideas)”, which won the 2001 Latin Grammy for Flamenco. Like de Lucia – to whom he is often compared – Amigo was able to…
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