Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez, 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 firs
De Lucía performing in 2007
With Camarón de la Isla in a painting by Antonio Guijarro Morales
With Juan el de la Vara
Left to right: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and de Lucía performing in Barcelona, Spain in the 1980s
Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compar
Paco de Lucía
…playing with McLaughlin and Di Meola was about learning these things." Also in 1981, The Guitar Trio released one of their most successful records, Friday Night in San Francisco, which sold over 1 million copies and generated a significant interest in flamenco music in America and Europe. It featured an extended combination of…