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Biography of Paco Peña
Name: Paco Peña
Birth Date: 1942
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Cordóba, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Gender: Male
Occupations: guitarist, composer, producer
Paco Peña
Spanish guitarist Paco Peña (born 1942) is known for his continued contributions to and explorations of flamenco music. He has recorded frequently, but appears to be in his element when performing in front of an audience, which could be anywhere throughout the world.Acoustic Guitar noted in a 2002 interview that Peña "is known all over the world for the depth and intelligence of his music and for the breadth of his work as a collaborator, composer, and producer. His primary vehicle has always been the flamenco cuadro, a small ensemble including guitar, singers and dancers and his primary focus has always been on flamenco puro, pure flamenco.... However, he has never treated flamenco as something to be kept sacrosanct and separate from other forms of music and has shared the bill with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Joe Pass to Leo Kottke."Childhood Devoted to Learning GuitarPe&…showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…ntilde;a," reposted from Acoustic Guitar, May 2000, http://www.mojacarflamenco.com/pacopena.html (January 22, 2003)."MUSIC: Mixed music and dance troupe to captivate audiences at Wadsworth," UCLA Daily Bruin, November 15, 1996, http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/issues/96/11.15/ae.pena.html (January 27, 2003)."Paco Peña: Beyond the Frets of Mortal Man," Mixdown Monthly, October 6, 1999, http://www.users.bigpond.com/apertout/Pe%F1a2.htm (January 27, 2003)."Paco Peña Brings Flamenco Troupe Here," Northwestern University News Release, November 18, 2002, http://www.northwestern.edu/univ- relations/media_relations/releases/11_2002/pacopena_text (January 21, 2003)."Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company: Paco Peña--Guitarist," Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, http://www.ccgs.org/concerts02/paco.html (January 27, 2003)."Paco Peña," Flamenco World website, http://www.flamenco- world.com/autores/resena.sql?idautor=244 (January 21, 2003)."Well, at least it sounds good...," Independent UK, October 20, 2002, http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/theatre/reviews/story.jsp?story=344684 (January 27, 2003).
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