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Paco Soto (Murcia)

Guitarist

Paco Soto, Águilas (1991). When he was ten years old he was given a guitar and five minutes later he said he wanted to be a flamenco guitarist; since then he set himself to the task.

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Biography

He has studied at the Festival del Cante de las Minas de la Unión and the Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville, with guitarists such as Gerardo Núñez and Miguel Ángel Cortés. Finally he moved to Madrid to study with Enrique Vargas and make a place for himself.

During his career he has already played in major cities around the world such as New York, Philadelphia, Santo Domingo, Shanghai, Beijing, Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona, Osaka, London, etc.. He has collaborated with many of the great artists of Flamenco (El Piraña, Ramón Porrina, Paloma Fantova, José Soto Sorderita, Juan Antonio Salazar, Rafita de Madrid, Enrique el Piculabe, María Mezcle, Antonio Ingueta, Camarón de Pitita, Antonio Sánchez, Leo Triviño, Claudia Cruz, , Sabú Porrina, Nino and Isaac de los Reyes, David Paniagua. …) of Jazz (Eva Cortés, Julio Botti, Inoidel González, Georvis Pico, Moisés P.Sánchez, Toño Miguel…).

He has worked for institutions such as “Ciudad de la Luz”, “Instituto Cervantes de New York”, or “Columbia University” where he has participated and organized courses on the relationship between Federico García Lorca and Flamenco; or “Música en Vena”, where he takes music to Hospitals and has participated as a musician in the making of the Documentary “La canción que cura”, together with the main musicians of Spain such as Jorge Pardo.

He has been the guitarist of companies such as “Tiempo al Aire” by Ismael de la Rosa and Sonia Olla at the Boulevard Theather in NYC, Clara Ramona’s company for the show (Carmen & Flamenco, China Tour 2014/15), or “Mambrú” directed by the company Hits Events to tour the main Hotels in the Caribbean. He has played in numerous tablaos and venues such as: Casapatas, Las Carboneras, Cardamomo, Candela, Café Berlin, Boogui Jazz (Madrid), La Venta del Gallo, Jardines de Zoraya (Granada), Alegrías en la Nathional (New York), Alma Flamenco (Fukuoka and Osaka), Jaleo (Ghent), Peña Flamenca Al-Andalous (Antwerp) Los Cabales (Dominican Republic).

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Madrid has dozens of fine tablaos (flamenco venues), but there’s only one Cardamomo.

All the spontaneity and raw passion of flamenco thrives here in this dark, smoky bar where a knowledgeable crowd gathers for live performances many weeknights from around 10.30pm. It’s all about a cantaor (flamenco singer) and guitar maestro, and this evocation of flamenco’s Andalusian roots ensures that…

— The Guardian

Powerful, Poetic and Soul Filled Dancing

“Me and four of my friends went here to enjoy our first taste of Flamenco. Flamenco, if you don’t know, started as an expression to poetry. There is soulful signing, clapping, snapping and when the dancers begin their performance the emotion and power is intense. We went…

— Arlington, TripAdvisor

Cardamomo is the real deal, catering to a crowd that knows its bulerias from its soleas.

Live music is thriving in Madrid, from classical and opera to blues, rock and jazz, but the speciality is flamenco. It may seem odd that the music of the south is so important up here, but there are two reasons for that: first, a lot of Andalusians…

— The Times
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