Flamenco guitar veteran Paco de Lucía immortalised in guided tour of Algeciras
Sunday, March 15, 2015 @ 8:16 PM
FANS of Spain's most international flamenco guitar legend Paco de Lucía can take a tour of his regular haunts in the southern region of Andalucía.
The late musician was considered a genius in his field by world-famous artists – in fact, Mark Knopfler once said that after he had heard Paco de Lucía play, “I realised I couldn't play the guitar.”
But visitors to the port town of Algeciras (Cádiz province) can now go on a guided tour of Paco's life – starting at the house where he was born on the C/ San Francisco, where he lived until he was five years old.
The route continues along the C/ Munición, which was once full of bars where Paco de Lucía's father, Antonio Sánchez Pecino, played regularly and which the artist himself immortalised in his album Luzia, named after his Portuguese mother Lucia Gomes Gonçalves.
Back in Paco de Lucía's youth, the upper-class residents of the C/ Munición would organise high-society parties that went on for days – and although his father Antonio did not enjoy them in the slightest, it enabled him to earn a crust and get free wine and tapas as a perk of the job, supplementing his income from his fruit stall in the market and his work as a travelling seller of fabrics.
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