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Biography
 De
Lucía was born Francisco Sánchez Gómez in Algeciras, a city in the
province of Cádiz, in the southernmost tip of Spain and Europe, the
youngest of five children. The son of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sánchez,
and brother of flamenco singer Pepe de Lucía and flamenco guitarist Ramón
de Algeciras, he adopted the stage name Paco de Lucía in honor of
his Portuguese-born mother, Lúcia Gomes.
In 1958, at age 11, de Lucía
made his first public appearance on Radio Algeciras, and a year later he was
awarded a special prize in the Jerez flamenco competition. In 1961, he
toured with the flamenco troupe of dancer José Greco. Between 1968 and
1977, he enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with fellow New Flamenco innovator
Camarón de la Isla. The two recorded 10 albums together.
De Lucía has toured and
recorded with Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin as well as his own Paco de Lucía
Sextet (which includes his brothers Ramón and Pepe). He has released
several albums encompassing both traditional and modern flamenco styles.
Through his wide discography he has given rise to a new way of understanding
flamenco and has launched his music and his instrument to a level comparable
to modern jazz performers.
Considered a master of
rasqueados and picados, he is also considered to have a great command of
blinding speed on the nylon string guitar.
Until asked to perform and
interpret Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez in 1991, de Lucía had
never learned how to read musical notation. While learning to play the
Concierto as a flamenco guitarist, where rhythm and pace is essential, he
preferred to risk giving the listener a 'dirty' note when being forced to go
from low to very high notes rather than to displace the rhythm and pace just
to keep the notes clean. He felt that as a flamenco guitarist he could
interpret the Concierto in a fashion not previously done. Joaquín Rodrigo
declared that no one had ever played his composition in such a brilliant
manner.
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- Dos Guitarras
Flamencas
(1965) with Ricardo Modrego
- 12 Canciones
de García Lorca para Guitarra (1965) with Ricardo Modrego
- Dos Guitarras
Flamencas en América Latina (1967) with Ramón de Algeciras
- La Fabulosa
Guitarra de Paco de Lucía (1967)
- Hispanoamérica
(1969)
- Fantasía
Flamenca de Paco de Lucía (1969)
- Recital de
Guitarra (1971)
- El Duende
Flamenco de Paco de Lucía (1972)
- Fuente y
Caudal (1973)
- En Vivo Desde
el Teatro Real (1975)
- Almoraima
(1976)
- Interpreta a
Manuel de Falla (1978)
- Castro Marín
(1981)
- Friday Night
in San Francisco (1981) with Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin
- Sólo Quiero
Caminar (1981) The Paco de Lucía Sextet
- Entre Dos
Aguas (1981) compilation
- Passion,
Grace and Fire (1983) with Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin
- Live... One
Summer Night (1984) The Paco de Lucía Sextet
- Siroco
(1987)
- Zyryab
(1990)
- Concierto de
Aranjuez (1991)
- Live in América
(1993) The Paco de Lucía Sextet
- The Guitar
Trio (1996) with Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin
- Luzia
(1998)
- Cositas
Buenas (2004)
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