Jose “Chuscales” Valle Fajardo grew up in a time of turmoil for Gypsies in Spain. The country was ruled by Francisco Franco, a Spanish military leader in power from 1939 to 1975, who persecuted ...

MADRID (AP) – Paco de Lucia, one of the world's greatest guitarists who dazzled audiences with his lightning-speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, has died in Mexico, Spanish officials said ...

MADRID -- Master guitar-maker Arcangel Fernandez has stopped taking orders. He’s been at it for 50 years, fashioning delicate wooden shells into lacquered beauties, and at age 75 he has enough work ...

Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia, who blended the flamenco sound of his native land with jazz and other genres that attracted a new generation of fans, has died at the age of 66 of an apparent heart ...

Good things come from Jerez, Spain: the bulls, the sherry, the flamenco. “It’s said the first cry of flamenco was born of Jerez de la Frontera,” said Maria Bermudez. Bermudez’s show is intimate ...

Flamenco is one of my passions, so I was excited to interview Adolfo Toyoda Timuat, an internationally renowned flamenco guitarist with major cred: he’s performed at Carnegie Hall, accompanied the ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Paco de Lucia, the influential Spanish guitarist who vastly expanded the international audience for flamenco and merged it with other musical styles, died suddenly of a heart attack ...