Juan Carmona

Juan Carmona is a virtuosic flamenco guitarist who has been showered with accolades over the course of his career and, though he is best known as a fiery live performer, he has several albums to his name, among them the Grammy-nominated Orillas (2003). Born in 1963 in Lyons, France, of gypsy descent, Carmona took an interest in guitar playing at a young age; at age ten he was given his first guitar by his father. Enamored of the instrument, he traveled to the land of his ancestors, Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, a city of approximately 200,000 in the south of Spain that is g...