Paco de Lucía

Francisco Sánchez Gómez, known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic figure in the world of flamenco guitar", and Dennis Koster, author of Guitar Atlas, Flamenco, has referred to de Lucía as "one of history's greatest guitarists".

21 December 1947

Born on the same birth day (21 December): Chris Evert • Corey Collymore • Emiliano Brembilla • Jane Kaczmarek • Joaquín Andújar • Joseph Carruthers • Kaitlyn Dever • Karrie Webb • Max Maven • Michelle Hurd • Namık Kemal • Roger Williams • Steve Furniss • Thomas Bracken • Thomas Couture • Zheng Xiaoyu

Born in the same month (December 1947): Aurelio Rodríguez • Ax (wrestler) • Bob Fulton • Christopher Parkening • Dilip Doshi • Gérard Blanc • Henk van Woerden • Jaak Jõerüüt • Jane Lubchenco • Jimmy Bain • Johnny Bench • Josef Janíček • Kati-Claudia Fofonoff • Liz Lochhead • Margaret Geller • Martyn Poliakoff • Miroslav Vitouš • Rasul Guliyev • Thomas Cech • Tommy Jenkins • Tony Gregory • Willy Polleunis • Wings Hauser