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Paco de Lucía: La Guitarra que Cambió Todo

Six strings, one revolution

Francisco Sánchez Gómez, from Algeciras, took the flamenco guitar from accompaniment instrument to concert virtuoso instrument in a single career, and along the way introduced the cajón, jazz harmony and Latin American rhythms into the flamenco vocabulary.

#cádiz #guitarra #siglo-xx #fusion

By Diego Morales

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Palos

Alegrías: El Sol de Cádiz

The festive cantiña of the Atlantic coast

The same 12-beat structure as soleá, the same accent pattern — but in major key, brighter, and full of references to the Virgen del Pilar and the Ebro river. The reason: alegrías comes from a war.

#cádiz #12-beat #baile

By Carmen Ríos

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