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Paco de Lucía

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Paco de Lucía

Born December 21, 1947 · Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain

Died February 25, 2014 · aged 66

Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic fig…

Known For

The HitThe Hit · 1984
The Hit
★ 6.51984
MovieDramaThriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Hannie CaulderHannie Caulder · 1971
Hannie Caulder
★ 6.21971
MovieDramaWestern
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
Manoushe: A Gypsy Love StoryManoushe: A Gypsy Love Story · 1992
Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
★ 6.01992
MovieRomanceFantasy
In the darkness of a rural night, a gypsy clan gathers to mourn their beloved patriarch's in a ritual celebrated through music and dance.
SevillesSevilles · 1992
Sevilles
★ 5.41992
MovieMusic
Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers.
FlamencoFlamenco · 1995
Flamenco
★ 6.31995
MovieDocumentaryMusic
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.
CarmenCarmen · 1983
Carmen
★ 6.71983
MovieDramaRomance
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin - Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin - Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987 · 1987
Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin - Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987
1987
MovieMusic
Paco & John - Live At Montreux 1987
La SabinaLa Sabina · 1979
La Sabina
★ 5.81979
MovieDrama
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.

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