In 2017, Italian musician Luca Stricagnoli’s cover of the hit Gorillaz song “Feel Good Inc.” featuring his triple-neck guitar — an invention of his — went viral. The video of him executing the bass ...

Flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata, who sold nearly 100 million records worldwide and broke boundaries for Gypsy musicians, has died in southern France. He was 93. De Plata died Wednesday in a ...

This is a rare and delightful mix of Gypsy roots, Delta Blues, and sleek jazz. Vocals are compelling and the percussion wills you to move along with the music. World-traversed and genre-fluid ...

About an hour south of Sevilla in a rural Spanish pueblo called Morón de la Frontera are the remains of a Moorish citadel, a cathedral and a rather gawky monument to a gamecock. Little else there ...

WHEN Denise Glaser, a reporter for French TV, went in 1965 to talk to Manitas de Plata, then the world’s most famous flamenco player, the interview was rather strange. She knew that he found words ...

A young Jesse Cook would thumb through his parents' vast record collection until something piqued his interest. From the moment he heard the mysterious sounds of flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata, ...

“Paco is the greatest flamenco guitar player of all time, and he killed flamenco,” another great Paco said to me in 1998, when I was living in Seville studying the flamenco guitar. Paco Valdepeñas was ...

Carlos Montoya, a guitarist and composer who played an important role in transforming flamenco from a localized Spanish folk form into a style with an international following, died Wednesday. He was ...

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 ...

It’s not easy following in the footsteps of a legend. But Lulo Reinhardt has carved out a melodious path of his own, as an internationally acclaimed guitarist. He is the great-nephew of gypsy jazz ...