{"id":2009,"date":"2023-03-07T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josecarlosgomez.es\/?page_id=2009"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:05:07","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.josecarlosgomez.es\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ABOUT JOS\u00c9 CARLOS G\u00d3MEZ<\/h2>

The Complete Story<\/span><\/h3>

Jose\u0301 Carlos Go\u0301mez<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Algeciras (Ca\u0301diz) on the 16th June 1972.<\/p>

At the age of five years old, he asked for a flamenco guitar to his parents as a gift for Christmas, because since he watched\u00a0Paco de Lucia<\/strong>\u00a0on television when he was about 3 years old, he fell in love with that sound.<\/p>

When he was 7 years old, he began to receive his first classes with the flamenco vocalist Flores \u201cel Gaditano\u201d and, two years later, with the guitarist\u00a0Salvador Andrades<\/strong>, who gave him the methods and the sound of the Algeciras Guitar School created by Mr.\u00a0Antonio S\u00e1nchez Pecino<\/strong>, father of Luc\u00eda\u2019s brothers, who had taught Salvador.<\/p>

When he was only 11 years old, he began to give his first concerts as soloist playing some of his first musical compositions and works by Paco de Luc\u00eda.<\/p>

Together with\u00a0Andres Rodriguez<\/strong>, he became part of the\u00a0Cuadro Flamenco Solea<\/em>. At this stage, some of the most importart years in his training began, as he was taught how to play for flamenco dancing and singing. The essential foundations for his future in Madrid started right at this moment.<\/p>

During these years, he met the guitarist\u00a0Paco Narv\u00e1ez<\/strong>\u00a0who greatly influenced his training as a guitarist, spending long days extracting pieces from other albums and improving the technique, the sound and the knowledge of harmony in flamenco guitar.<\/p>

When he was only 16 years old, he was already a renowned guitarist in the area accompanying vovalists such as\u00a0Canela de San Roque or Antonio Madreles<\/strong>\u00a0throughout Andalusia. Their first outings abroad began, giving guitar recitals in cities such as Paris or London with great recognition from the public.<\/p>

The following year, under the guidance of\u00a0Pepe de Luc\u00eda<\/strong>, he made his first collaborations and he played along the young vocalist \u201cPotito\u201d in his first concerts and television programmes. In these concerts, it is worth mentioning the presence of two special people for Jos\u00e9 Carlos: the first,\u00a0Moraito Chico<\/strong>, whom he would share the stage with and who would later say \u201cthis boy really plays Paco\u2019s works\u201d and, the second, Tomatito, whom he used to spend hours and hours playing with at airports; a dream come true for a young guitarist.<\/p>

Undisputed winner in the First Guitar Contest\u00a0Ram\u00f3n de Algeciras<\/em>\u00a0in Getafe with only 17 years old.<\/p>

Thanks to Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Bandera, he made the leap to Madrid to play along Merche Esmeralda during\u00a0Los Veranos de la Villa<\/em>\u00a0together with\u00a0Luis Habichuela, Ram\u00f3n el Portugu\u00e9s and Taleg\u00f3n de C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong>.<\/p>

The following year, this same flamenco dancer asked him to be part of the\u00a0Ballet Regi\u00f3n de Murcia<\/em>\u00a0as the first guitarist.<\/p>

In 1991, he joined the staff of the\u00a0Ballet Nacional de Espa\u00f1a<\/em>\u00a0together with the guitarists\u00a0Luis Habichuela and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Bandera<\/strong>, remaining until 1997 playing in the most important theatres all over the world. His name already appeared as composer of some of the works in the repertoire of this ballet.<\/p>

After a break of two years in his professional life when he underwent a kidney transplant, he resumed his career in 1999. At that moment, he began to collaborate as second guitar on some albums or composing works for\u00a0Duquende, Ni\u00f1a Pastori, Marina Heredia, El Pele, La Tana, La Susi, Armando Manzanero, Alejandro Sanz, Serrat, Sara Baras, etc.<\/strong><\/p>

We should highlight the collaboration in the album\u00a0Ca\u00f1ailla<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Ni\u00f1a Pastori, produced by Alejandro Sanz, Josemi Carmona and Emanuele Ruffinengo<\/strong>, where he composed and played the\u00a0alegr\u00edas<\/em>\u00a0\u201cSobre la Arena\u201d and the\u00a0tangos<\/em>\u00a0\u201cManolillo el Canastero\u201d. This album had a great sales success and obtained great recognition in the flamenco world.<\/p>

Thanks to this showcase, he was called by many artists and producers as a guitarist and composer for different projects. One of these was the duet album of the Mexican artist Armando Manzanero, where he met the great producer\u00a0Nacho Ma\u00f1\u00f3<\/strong>. Nacho impressed a great influence on Jos\u00e9 Carlos due to his way of working with the sound and the atmosphere on musical productions.<\/p>

The soundtrack of the film\u00a0Sin Verg\u00fcenza<\/em>\u00a0directed by Joaqu\u00edn Oristrell and part of the musical repertoire of the shows\u00a0Sabores<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Carmen<\/em>\u00a0by the flamenco dancer\u00a0Sara Baras<\/strong>\u00a0were some of the works of this artist who has never stopped growing and was in a very creative moment of his career.<\/p>

From this moment, there were more and more assignments to compose songs. Step by step, writing became a kind of therapy for his life until 2010 when he released his first album: sung and produced by himself and Nacho Ma\u00f1\u00f3.<\/p>

He created the record label Amorarte Music to release this work. During the next years he released some albums by different artists and a second album that includes duets with\u00a0Miguel Poveda, Pastora Soler or Colombian singer Santiago Cruz<\/strong>, which includes the guitar piece\u00a0Copla de Luc\u00eda,<\/em>\u00a0a tribute to the\u00a0Master of Algeciras<\/em>, under his own record label.<\/p>

Paco de Luc\u00eda said about him: \u201cThe good taste he has and the quality of what he is doing surprised me\u201d.<\/p>

From this moment on, he began a new stage in which he devoted himself to musical production and composition, combining long studio sessions with his concerts as flamenco vocalist and some collaborations as a guitarist in different musical projects of artists such as Alejandro Fern\u00e1ndez or Pasi\u00f3n Vega among others.<\/p>

During the spring of 2013,\u00a0Alejandro Sanz<\/strong>\u00a0invited him to collaborate in\u00a0La M\u00fasica No Se Toca<\/em>\u00a0tour as flamenco guitarist in the\u00a0Coraz\u00f3n Part\u00edo<\/em>\u00a0song, he also participated in the recording of the\u00a0La M\u00fasica No Se Toca En Vivo<\/em>\u00a0DVD sharing the stage with artists such as Jamie Cullum among others.<\/p>

On May 10, 2016 his most awaited album\u00a0ORIGEN<\/em>\u00a0goes on sale. It is a Flamenco Guitar album that quickly gains the recognition of experts. This album was highly valued because it somehow returned to the origins of the concert Flamenco Guitar with a great personality and an avant-garde sound.<\/p>

ORIGEN<\/em>\u00a0has been presented at festivals around the world, including the Jerez Flamenco Festival, Morelia International Guitar Festival (Mexico), Monterrey Flamenco Festival (Mexico), Quer\u00e9taro Contemporary Iberian Festival (Mexico), Sar\u00ed International Guitar Festival (Iran), Brno International Guitar Festival (Czech Republic), Cervantes Institute in Tokyo (Japan) and the First Flamenco Heritage Cycle at the Roman Theatre in Bologna (Cadiz), among many others.<\/p>

He has received wonderful reviews from different journalists all over the world and\u00a0ORIGEN<\/em>\u00a0has quickly positioned itself as one of the best Flamenco Guitar albums of the recent years.<\/p>

His new project in 2018 is\u00a0PASAJE ANDALUZ,<\/em>\u00a0a concert for Guitar and Orchestra whose world premiere has taken place at the Morelia International Guitar Festival, on September 21 of this year, obtaining wonderful reviews and a great ovation from the audience that crowded the Teatro Ocampo of the city.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n <\/section>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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