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Pedro Javier González García (born 1962) is a Spanish flamenco, fusion, and classical guitarist, composer, and record producer. He has produced and collaborated with El Último de la Fila,
Joan Manuel Serrat Joan Manuel Serrat Teresa (; born 27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer, and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both Spanish and Catalan languages. Serrat's lyrical style has b ...
, Manolo García and María del Mar Bonet,
Victoria de los Ángeles Victoria de los Ángeles López García (1 November 192315 January 2005) was a Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. ...
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. He has also performed at festivals with others such as
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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 flamen ...
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Tomatito José Fernández Torres (born Fondón, 1958), known professionally as Tomatito, 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 m ...
. Tempered and precise, he is one of the most versatile guitarists and composers in Spain.


Biography


Early work

González was born in Barcelona. In the 1980s he studied with A. F. Serra and Juan Trilla and won the Premio al Toque por Bulerías and first prize in the Certamen de Guitarra flamenca. His first steps as a professional guitarist were supporting Toti Soler, Feliu Gasull, and
Ovidi Montllor Ovidi Montllor (; 4 February 1942 in Alcoi, Spain – 10 March 1995 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Valencian singer-songwriter and actor. Career A native of Alcoi, at the age of 24 Montllor moved to Barcelona, where he was a member of various indepe ...
. He then played in a group with classical guitarists Yoshimi Otani, Alex Garrobé, and Xavier Coll.


1990s

In 1990 he began working with El Último de la Fila, playing Spanish guitar for the album ''Nuevo pequeño catálogo de seres y estares''. From there he would begin an important relationship with the band, accompanying them on their next albums and most of their concerts. In 1992 he formed the band Arrebato with flamenco singer Rafael Maya and released the album ''Rumba canalla'' (EMI). The style is close to the
nuevo flamenco New flamenco (or ''nuevo flamenco'') or flamenco fusion is a musical genre that was born in Spain, starting in the 1980s. It combines flamenco guitar virtuosity and traditional flamenco music with musical fusion (with genres like jazz, blues, r ...
that appeared in the early 1990s. He then recorded on the albums ''Astronomía razonable'' and ''La rebelión de los hombres rana'' with El Último de la Fila. On both, Gonzalez played electric and Spanish guitars and accompanied the group on tour. The group was the top-selling act in Spain. ''Astronomía razonable'' sold 600,000 copies during its 64-week chart run, and ''La rebelión de los hombres rana'' sold 228,000 copies. During the second half of the 1990s, Gonzalez released three albums featured cover versions of songs by
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and others. In early 1997, he recorded the album ''Callejón del gato''. The album contains thirteen instrumental songs, featuring
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bulerías ''Bulería'' (; interchangeable with the plural, ''bulerías'') is a fast flamenco rhythm made up of a 12 beat cycle with emphasis in two general forms as follows: This may be thought of as a measure of followed by a measure of (known ...
. Before returning to record another album with original compositions, González made several collaborations, playing the Spanish guitar on '' Arena en los bolsillos'' (1998) with Manolo García and ''Cansiones'' (2000) with
Joan Manuel Serrat Joan Manuel Serrat Teresa (; born 27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer, and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both Spanish and Catalan languages. Serrat's lyrical style has b ...
. He also produced the debut albums of Tomasito and Zalamera. As a session musician has worked in hundreds of albums for artists such as Toti Soler, Feliu Gasull,
Victoria de los Ángeles Victoria de los Ángeles López García (1 November 192315 January 2005) was a Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. ...
, El último de la fila,
Joan Manuel Serrat Joan Manuel Serrat Teresa (; born 27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer, and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both Spanish and Catalan languages. Serrat's lyrical style has b ...
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Lluís Llach Lluís Llach i Grande (; born 7 May 1948) is a Spanish Catalan singer-songwriter, novelist and politician. He is one of the main representatives of the '' nova cançó'' genre and an outspoken advocate of the right to self-determination of Cat ...
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Maria del Mar Bonet Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (Balearic Catalan: ; born 1947 in Palma de Mallorca) is a Spanish singer from the island of Majorca. Early life and career Bonet studied ceramics in the school of arts, but eventually decided to dedicate herself ...
, Manolo García,
Paco Ortega Antonino Martínez Ortega (Úbeda, Jaén, October 28, 1957), known artistically as Paco Ortega, is a Spanish singer, composer, producer, and businessman specialized in pop and flamenco Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkl ...
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Angelo Branduardi Angelo Branduardi (born 12 February 1950) is an Italian folk music, folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece. Early and ...
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2000s–present

In 2001, González returned to record a studio album, ''Árboles nuevos''. In parallel, co-produced and played the Spanish guitar in ''
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'' (2001) and ''Para que no se duerman mis sentidos'' (2004) with Manolo García. The latter album earned him the nomination of the Premios de la Música for "Best Music Arranger", shared with Manolo and Nacho Lesko. He collaborated with Serrat in ''Versos en la boca'' (2003), in which he performed as a flamenco guitarist. In 2005 he re-recorded and reinterpreted the themes of his first solo album, ''Callejón del gato'' under the Alia Records label, and in 2007 published a new album of original compositions called ''Verdades ocultas y medias mentiras'', this time under the
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label, with 10 instrumental tracks including a cover of
Camarón de la Isla José Monje Cruz (5 December 1950 – 2 July 1992), better known by his stage name Camarón de la Isla, was a Spanish Romani flamenco singer. Considered one of the all-time greatest flamenco singers, he was noted for his collaborations with Pa ...
's '' La leyenda del tiempo''. González, with Roger Blavia (drums) and Toni Terré (bass) then performed under the name ''Trío'' for a series of concerts in Europe. They released a DVD with the live recording in
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, on October 28, 2006. There performances included traditional Spanish flamenco and classical and Spanish versions of classic international pop and rock. The trio performed at the International Kaunas Jazz Festival in Lithuania in October 2011. Recently he has performed with the double-bass player Horacio Fumero, formed Transversal, with Raúl Rodriguez (Cuban tres),
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(percussionist) and Guillem Aguilar (bass) and appeared on the French tenor
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’s new album. González performed "
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" as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow. He has also recorded guitar for commercials by
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References


External links


Official site
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