As they were on a break at the time, he invited him to join Pepe Marchena's company, and in 1957, at the age of fourteen, he began his promising artistic career as a guitarist. This attracted the attention of the Sevillian maestro Pepe Pinto, who proposed that he join the cast of his company. Thanks to his father's impetus to learn, Manolo Sanlúcar had an exceptional teacher and a serious and rigorous teaching that marked him forever.Īt the age of eight, Manolo Sanlúcar won a prize with a young cantaor from Sanlúcar and, from that moment on, he did not stop performing with his guitar at musical events, such as fiestas in villages around Sanlúcar, private parties, and even on radio programmes. From him he learned the guitar wisdom he acquired from his classes with Javier Molina. His father, a great guitar aficionado, was his teacher and point of reference. Born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Manolo Sanlúcar grew up breathing flamenco. Born in a flamenco environment, everything presaged that he would become a prodigy of the flamenco guitar and a great artist. That is why I feel the need to tell more things about flamenco with other sounds and I take to the orchestra and try to get the orchestra to play siguiriyas, but take note, not for the orchestra to accompany siguiriyas and a singer, but for the orchestra to take on the feeling of the flamenco and, as if it were a sole instrument, to tell that spirit and magic sound of flamenco".Every flamenco lover knows who Manuel Muñoz, better known as Manolo Sanlúcar, is. "Flamenco is a philosophy, the way of thinking and feeling of a whole people and its historical tradition.
"I wish the experts in universal music to understand that they may approach flamenco, so they do not consider it something tribal and topical, so they see a branch of music in flamenco that allows very profound musical analysis and has extraordinary poetic and musical quality".ĭiscussing it further, he later declared, Several works of the greatest interest which have placed his name among the great composers of our time include: Fantasía para guitarra y orquesta, Trebujena, Medea and Soleá, showing his attempts to merge his primary focus in music, and which toured the world as a ballet Tauromagia or Aljibe.
The most ambitious of his contributions to the art has been his constant striving to integrate flamenco in symphonic music. He soon began to research, aware that the guitar had infinite possibilities that had hardly been explored. His brothers also decided on the same vocation, among them Isidro.
His first teacher was his father, Isidro Sanlúcar, a baker and old-style guitarist, who frequently came home with people who were fond of cante and playing from his childhood he was exceptionally skilled to follow in his steps.
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