"I always tell people to enjoy playing. You need to have a good time, and to devote lots of time to it, it is something that is very demanding".
Enrique de Melchor has been able to step out of the shadow of his father, the great guitarist Melchor de Marchena. He was able to pass the love for the guitar, flamenco and music on to him, but his son has found his own style and sound.
Like the majority of flamenco artists, he got started and learned his trade in the tablaos, especially in los Canasteros in Madrid, where Manolo Caracol gave him his first opportunity. Since then Enrique de Melchor has been one of the guitarists who has been most in demand to accompany singing or dancing, as is demonstrated by his recordings alongside Antonio Mairena, Carmen Linares, El Lebrijano, Enrique Morente, Fosforito, José Menese, José Mercé, Paco de Lucía... He is also outstanding as a solo artist and as a composer. Some of his compositions are so well known that they are considered to have popular origins.
Enrique de Melchor is one of the guitarists who is most sought after to accompany flamenco singing but, at the same time and since he was a youth, he has simult
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This is a brilliant all-round record: the quality guitar playing by Enrique de Melchor is surrounded by great artists: none other than José Menese, José Mercé a
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"I always tell people to enjoy playing. You need to have a good time, and to devote lots of time to it, it is something that is very demanding".
Enrique de Melchor (Enrique de Melchor)
