His real name Francisco Sanchez Gomez, born in 1947, he died at age 66 of a heart attack. He was considered one of the great masters of flamenco guitar.
Paco began his career at the age of 14, hired as guitarist for the José Greco dance company. On tour in the US, he met Mario Escudero and Sabicas, two renowned Spanish guitarists who encouraged him to pursue a solo career. He recorded his first album in 1965. Then Paco de Lucía as a famous duo with singer Camarón de la Isla, born in the province of Cadiz, met in Madrid in 1968. Together, they recorded nine discs 1969-1977 before Paco gives way to one of his students, Tomatito. In 1975, the year Franco died, Paco enjoyed great commercial success with a rumba: Entre dos Aguas. In the words of Francis Marmande in Le Monde, "It is the only flamenco guitarist to have extended its experience, its success, its audience, without leaving its soul. Jazz had changed his look, not his music. "
His fascinating technology did join the trio (acoustic guitars), John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. He also met Larry Coryell, Carlos Santana and Egberto Gismonti. At first, their ease of improvisation was aghast. Along with his association with Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía mixing flamenco with Indian music, salsa, bossa nova, Arabic music. He also founded a band with his brothers, the singer Pepe de Lucía and guitarist Ramón Algeciras and introduces instruments and South American rhythms - with a Peruvian Cajon particular. It also adapts several themes of the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. As the jury Prince of Asturias Award in 2014 "from flamenco guitar, he also explored the classical Spanish repertoire, Isaac Albéniz to Falla, the emotion of bossa nova and jazz. Everything that can be expressed with the six strings of the guitar in his hands. "
He was taken ill, February 25th, 2014, while playing with his children on a beach in Cancun Mexico, where he owned a home. He died on the way to the hospital.
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