Raimundo Amador Fernández (born in

Sevilla Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville ...

on May 26, 1959) is a Spanish

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guitar player.

Biography

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He started playing the guitar for well-known

flamenco Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the Gitanos, gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Region of Murcia, ...

artists like Fernanda de Utrera,

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and

Paco de Lucía Francisco Sánchez Gómez (; 21 December 194725 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 flamen ...

. Later he followed his own way mixing flamenco and

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(he performed with B. B. King), founding the

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group and collaborating with

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in the 1980s.

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Raimundo Amador
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amador, Raimundo 1959 births Living people Flamenco Spanish flamenco guitarists Spanish male guitarists Musicians from Seville Romani guitarists Spanish Romani people