For several decades, Vicente Amigo has reigned as one of flamenco’s premier guitarists, a dazzling technician and an explosive performer carrying the torch of the great Paco de Lucía to push the Spanish tradition in new directions. Not all those directions have led to success—the 2013 album Tierra was a rather mushy collision of flamenco and Celtic music—but through each phase of his career Amigo, who turned 50 this year, has stuck to the fundamentals of his art.…
For several decades, Vicente Amigo has reigned as one of flamenco’s premier guitarists, a dazzling technician and an explosive performer carrying the torch of the great Paco de Lucía to push the Spanish tradition in new directions. Not all those directions have led to success—the 2013 album Tierra was a rather mushy collision of flamenco and Celtic music—but through each phase of his career Amigo, who turned 50 this year, has stuck to the fundamentals of his art.…