List of notable flamenco guitarists:

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Ramón de Algeciras Ramón Sánchez Gómez, better known by his stage name Ramón de Algeciras, (5 February 193820 January 2009) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and lyricist. He was the most prolific collaborator of Paco de Lucía, his younger brother, r ...

Vicente Amigo Vicente Amigo Girol (born 25 March 1967) is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist, born in Guadalcanal near Seville. He has played as an accompanying guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers Camarón de la Isla, and Luis de Córdoba, an ...

* Aniya la Gitana * Juan d'Anyelica *

Gino D'Auri Gino D'Auri (193726 January 2007) was an Italian flamenco, fusion and classical guitarist of Romani origin. D'Auri was born in Rome. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967, where he began playing in flamenco clubs. In 1976, he recorded with fusion gro ...

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Tonino Baliardo file:Tonino Baliardo.JPG, Baliardo performing in 2012 Antoine "Tonino" Baliardo is a French guitarist of Spanish Gitanos, Gitano descent. He is the lead guitarist for Gipsy Kings, a New Flamenco group from France that has sold more than 18 millio ...

* Miguel de la Bastide * Andrés Batista

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* Juan Manuel Cañizares *

Agustín Carbonell Agustin "El Bola" Carbonell (born Agustín Carbonell Serrano; Madrid, 1967) is a guitarist and Spanish composer of flamenco and new flamenco music. Member of a family with wide flamenco roots, including names like Sabicas, El Bola and Paco de ...

* Paco Cepero *

Charo María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, professionally known by her stage name Charo, is a Spanish-American actress, singer, comedian, and flamenco guitarist. Charo began playing guitar at the age of nine and trained under the famed A ...

(María de Rasten) *

Moraíto Chico II Moraíto Chico (born Manuel Moreno Junquera; 13 September 1956 – 10 August 2011) was a Flamenco guitarist. He was known as one of the best and most in-demand accompanying guitarists of his generation, and regularly accompanied José Mercé, Di ...

Jesse Cook Jesse Arnaud Cook is a Canadian guitarist. He is a Juno Award winner, '' Acoustic Guitar'' Player's Choice Award silver winner in the Flamenco Category, and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz award for Guitarist of the Year. He has ...

* Juan Raphael Cortés

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Diego del Gastor Diego Amaya Flores (March 27, 1908 in Arriate Málaga, Spain – July 7, 1973 in Morón de la Frontera, Sevilla) was a renowned flamenco guitarist. Diego del Gastor was the creator and best known exponent of the guitar playing tradition of Moró ...

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El Viejín El Viejín, (born José Jiménez in 1963 in Madrid), is a Spanish flamenco guitarist. He is often billed as José Jiménez 'El Viejín'. "El viejín" means "a little old man". He acquired this nickname when very young because listeners were ama ...

(José Jiménez) *

Mario Escudero Mario Escudero (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004), was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the Un ...

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* Eddie Freeman

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* Ricardo Garcia *

* Feliu Gasull * Juan Gómez "Chicuelo" * Pedro Javier González * Grisha Goryachev

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Pepe Habichuela Pepe Habichuela (born 1944 as José Antonio Carmona Carmona) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist, cited as one of the great flamenco masters and one of Spain's finest contemporary guitarists. He was born in Granada and belongs to a flamenco dynasty of ...

Juan Habichuela Juan Habichuela (''né'' Juan Carmona Carmona; 193330 June 2016) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist who began his artistic life as a dancer, and later learned guitar from his father and from a guitarist from Granada known as Ovejilla. He accom ...

(Juan Carmona) *

Amir-John Haddad Amir John Haddad (born 1975) is a German-Spanish flamenco guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, based in Spain since 1997. He was the official oud, bouzouki and guitar player for Radio Tarifa for almost ten years and in that role received a nomin ...

Oscar Herrero Óscar Herrero is a Flamenco guitarist from Spain. He was born in Tomelloso ( Ciudad Real) on 12 March 1959. Oscar Herrero has authored several flamenco guitar teaching DVDs and didactic textbooks. Among them:RGB Publishing, Spain Works Text book ...

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* Antonia Jiménez * Niño Josele

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Robby Krieger Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", " Touch Me", and "L ...

* Andrei Krylov

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Michael Laucke Michael Laucke (; 29 January 1947 – 2 December 2021) was a Canadian classical, new flamenco and flamenco guitarist and composer. Starting at the age of thirteen, Laucke gave professional snooker demonstrations and his winnings allowed him t ...

Javier Limón Javier Limón (born 1973) is a record producer, singer and songwriter born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Limón has worked with several artists, mainly from Spain, since he incorporates elements of flamenco rhythm to his work. Besides his work as ...

* Paco de Lucena *

Ottmar Liebert Ottmar Liebert (born 1 February 1959) is a German guitarist, songwriter and producer best known for his Spanish-influenced music. A five-time Grammy Award nominee, Liebert has received 38 Gold and Platinum certifications in the United States, as ...

* Thomas Lorenzo *

Paco de Lucía Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (;), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flame ...

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Luis Maravilla Luis Maravilla ''(Luis López Tejera)'' (1 June 1914 – 10 July 2000) was a Flamenco composer. He was born in Seville, Spain. Maravilla studied guitar under Marcelo Molina and Pepe de Badajoz, and debuted professionally at the age of 12 in the ...

Melchor de Marchena Melchor de Marchena (19071980; born Melchor Jimenez Torres) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist. Born in Marchena, Spain, he is considered to be one of the most representative artists with a "gypsy touch", along with Diego del Gastor. His love of fla ...

Juan Martín Juan Cristóbal Martín (born 1948) is a Spanish flamenco guitaristwww.flamencovision.com
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Pepe Martínez Pepe Martínez (José Martínez León, 8 September 1922 – 1984) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist born into a musical family, in the Seville quarter of Macarena, Seville, Macarena. His mother, Isabel, was famous for her singing of religiousl ...

Robert Michaels Robert Michaels (Roberto Michele Buttarazzi) (born in Toronto, Canada) is a Juno Award winner and nominee, multi-gold and platinum-selling recording artist, guitarist and vocalist. Michaels returned from Canada to his mothers home town of Arpi ...

* Ricardo Modrego *

Carlos Montoya Carlos García Montoya (13 December 19033 March 1993) in Madrid, Spain, was a prominent flamenco guitarist and a founder of the modern-day popular flamenco style of music. Early life He was the nephew of renowned flamenco guitarist Ramón Monto ...

Ramón Montoya Ramón Montoya (November 2, 1879, Madrid, Spain – July 20, 1949, Madrid, Spain), Flamenco guitarist and composer. Born into a family of Gitano (Romani) cattle traders, Ramón Montoya used earnings from working in the trade to purchase his first g ...

* Diego Del Morao

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Paco Peña Paco Peña (born 1 June 1942) is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional flamenco players. Biography Born in Córdoba, Spain, as Francisco Peña Pérez, Paco Peña began learning to pl ...

Manitas de Plata Ricardo Baliardo (7 August 1921 – 5 November 2014), better known as Manitas de Plata, was a flamenco guitarist of Spanish Gitano descent born in southern France. Despite achieving worldwide fame, he was criticized for not following certain rh ...

(Ricardo Baliardo) *

Donn Pohren Donn E. Pohren (1929–2007) was an American guitarist and historian. He is known for his three major texts on flamenco: ''The Art of Flamenco'' (1962), ''Lives and Legends of Flamenco: A Biographical History'' (1964), and ''A Way of Life'' ( ...

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* Ronald Radford * Val Ramos * Antonio Rey * Niño Ricardo *

Rafael Riqueni 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. At age fourteen, he won the two main national awards for flam ...

* Flavio Rodrigues * José Antonio Rodríguez *

Lawson Rollins Lawson Rollins is an American guitarist from North Carolina noted for his virtuoso fingerstyle technique and melodic compositional skills. Guitar Player magazine ranked him as one of the "50 Best Acoustic Guitarists of All Time". His music is ge ...

Pepe Romero Pepe Romero (born March 8, 1944, in Málaga, Spain) is a classical and flamenco guitarist. Biography Early life Pepe Romero was born in Spain, the second son of celebrated guitarist and composer Celedonio Romero, who was his only guitar te ...

Mohamed Rouane Mohamed Rouane (born at Belouizdad, Algiers in 1968) is an Algerian musician and recording artist, well known in his own country for his performances of flamenco and "Casbah-style jazz" and especially for his use of the mondol. Beyond the busine ...

Javier Ruibal Javier Ruibal (full name Francisco Javier Ruibal de Flores Calero) (born May 15, 1955) is a Spanish musician and songwriter. Biography Javier Ruibal was born in El Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cadiz in southern Spain. His first ...

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Sabicas Sabicas (proper name: Agustín Castellón Campos) (16 March 1912 – 14 April 1990) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist of Romani origin. Biography Sabicas was born in Pamplona, Spain, and began playing guitar at the age of five and made his perfor ...

(Agustín Castellón Campos) * Esteban de Sanlúcar *

Manolo Sanlúcar Manolo Sanlúcar (born Manuel Muñoz Alcón, 24 November 1943 – 27 August 2022) was a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He was considered one of the most important Spanish composers of recent times, and together with Paco de Lucía, T ...

Roger Scannura Roger Scannura is a flamenco guitarist and an exponent of nuevo flamenco. Life Scannura was born on Malta. His early schooling began at the Franciscan Monastery of St. Theresa, where he was tutored in European history, Latin, fine art and art re ...

* Juan Serrano * Paco Serrano *

Marta Soto Marta Soto (born 15 November 1996) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. She is mostly known for her song "Quiero Verte", which made an appearance on the Spanish television program Survivor, and for her debut album ''Míranos'', which reached Nu ...

* Edward Stephenson

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Teye : ''For the Egyptian name see Tiye (disambiguation).'' Teye (pronounced tie-ya, born 1957 as Teije Wijnterp) is a Dutch guitarist, best known for his flamenco guitar work with the Joe Ely band between 1994 and 2000. After his musical career, Teye ...

(Teije Wijnterp) *

Tomatito José Fernández Torres, known as Tomatito (born Fondón, 1958), is a Spanish roma flamenco guitarist and composer. Having started his career accompanying famed flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla (with Paco de Lucía), he has made a number of ...

(José Fernández Torres)

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Narciso Yepes Narciso Yepes (14 November 19273 May 1997) was a Spanish guitarist. He is considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century. Biography Yepes was born into a family of humble origin in Lorca, Region of Murcia. ...

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