Lost recordings from flamenco virtuoso Paco de Lucía have been discovered – after spending 60 years stored in a meat can
21 new tracks from the Spanish flamenco guitar master Paco de Lucía, and his brother, singer and songwriter Pepe de Lucía, have been unearthed after being hidden in a quince meat box for over 60 years.
The tracks, which the guitarist and his brother recorded when they were 11 and 13 years old, have now been collated into an album, aptly titled Pepito y Paquito.
The recording took place between 1959 and 1960 on a Grundig tape recorder in Algeciras, first in the brothers' family home and then in the quiet house of the mother of Reyes Benítez, the brothers' main supporter. Its existence was known, but the exact location of the reels was a mystery, until Quique Benítez, Reyes Benítez’s son, found them in 2022.
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