Vicente Amigo

Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo
	Amigo in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Vicente Amigo Girol
Born	25 March 1967 (age 57)
Origin	Guadalcanal, Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Genres	Flamenco music
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1988–present
Website	vicenteamigo.com

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, and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Amaya and José Mercé. His album Ciudad de las Ideas won the 2001 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album^[1] and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.

Biography

Amigo was raised in Córdoba, where he took guitar lessons and later improved his playing with Manolo Sanlúcar, with whom he worked for ten years. After a period of accompaniment which began with El Pele, he devoted himself almost exclusively to playing concerts in 1988. De Mi Corazón al Aire (From Out of My Heart, 1991) was his first solo record. An admirer of Paco de Lucía since childhood, Amigo took part with him in the show Leyendas de la guitarra (Legends of the Guitar) in Seville.

Amigo has worked with Amaia Montero, Khaled, Miguel Bosé, Carmen Linares, Manolo Sanlúcar, Wagner Tiso, Rosario, Nacho Cano, Alejandro Sanz, Sting, Paco de Lucía, Stanley Jordan, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, and Milton Nascimento.

Discography

As lead

De mi corazón al aire (CBS/Sony, 1991)
Vivencias Imaginadas (CBS/Sony, 1995)
Poeta (CBS/Sony, 1997)
Del Amanecer... with Jose Merce (Virgin, 1998)
Ciudad de las Ideas (2000)
Un Momento en el Sonido (Columbia, 2005)
Paseo de Gracia (Sony, 2009)
Tierra (Sony, 2013)
Memoria de los Sentidos (Sony, 2017)
Andenes del Tiempo (2024)

As accompanist

With Miguel Bosé

Bajo El Signo De Cain (WEA, 1993)
Laberinto (WEA, 1995)
Mordre Dans Ton Coeur (WEA, 1997)
Papitwo (WEA, 2012)

With others

Remedios Amaya, Me Voy Contigo (Hispavox, EMI 1997)
Pedro Aznar, Mudras: Canciones De a Dos (Tabriz Music, 2003)
David Bisbal, Premonicion (Vale Music, 2006)
Nacho Cano, The Feminine Side (Virgin, 1997)
Nacho Cano, A un Musical De (Warner, 2008)
Los Chunguitos, Vive a Tu Manera en Directo (EMI, 1988)
Camarón de la Isla, Soy Gitano (El Pais, 2010)
Tino di Geraldo, Burlerias (Nuevos Medios, 1994)
Roberto Fonseca, Zamazu (Enja, 2007)
GNR, Sob Escuta (EMI, 1994)
Josh Groban, Bridges (Reprise, 2018)
Alberto Iglesias, Hable Con Ella (Milan, 2002)
Azucar Moreno, Ojos Negros (Epic, 1992)
Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick, Omega (El Europeo Musica, 1996)
Carlos Nunez, Os Amores Libres (RCA Victor, 1999)
Potito, Andando por Los Caminos (CBS, 1990)
Manolo Sanlucar, Tauromagia (Polydor, 1988)
Alejandro Sanz, El Alma al Aire (WEA, 2001)
Alejandro Sanz, Mas (WEA, 2006)
Sting, Sacred Love (A&M, 2003)
Wagner Tiso, Baobab (Philips, 1990)
Wagner Tiso, Brazilian Scenes (Kardum/Iris, 1997)
Potito, Mi reencuentro (Concert Music Entertainment S.L, 2018)
El Pele, Canto (BMG Music Spain S.A, 2003)
Eliane Elias, Around the City (RCA Victor, 2006)

References

^ Harrigan, Tom (1 November 2001). "Alejandro Sanz takes top Latin Grammys in terror-delayed ceremony". The Register-Guard. p. 3D. Retrieved 18 June 2013.

[Harrigan-1] Harrigan, Tom (1 November 2001). "Alejandro Sanz takes top Latin Grammys in terror-delayed ceremony". The Register-Guard. p. 3D. Retrieved 18 June 2013.

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