Paco de Lucía

Paco de Lucía grew up in Algeciras in a flamenco family and spent his teens accompanying singers, the traditional apprenticeship for a guitarist. He later expanded the form, adding the cajón box drum and jazz harmonies, but his partnership with the singer Camarón de la Isla is the core of modern flamenco's canonical recordings. Gitano communities in Andalusia sustain the art; he made sure the world heard it. He died in 2014.