Emilio Maya

Spanish Flamenco Guitarist from Granada. Emilio Maya is an excellent guitarist, practically self-taught, though, of course, his studies have been influenced by such revolutionary personalities of flamenco music as Paco de Lucia and Manolo Sanlucar. Emilio has enjoyed much success in and outside of Spain, notably accompanying singers such as Enrique Morente, Carmen Linares, Estrella Morente and dancers such as Antonio Canales, Anna Cali and Juan Andreas Maya, among many other figures of the genre. He has also demonstrated his versatility alongside the mythical Miles Davis in a documentary for the BBC. Emilio Maya's playing has, in the opinion of the signatory of these lines, a personality, a distinctive stamp that makes it unmistakable: a clean sound, perfectly matching a deep purity with a rare eclecticism.