Luque – Flamenco & Classic Pop & Latin Style Guitarist

Ideal for Drink Receptions and Events that Require dynamic and upbeat background music played by a Guitar Virtuoso

Piensa En Mi – Solo Flamenco Guitar

Luque is an expert Finger Style Flamenco Guitarist from Barcelona and is currently based in London. He is in high demand as a soloist for recitals and to perform alongside London’s top ensembles. He performs various solo instrumental guitar music styles and particularly enjoys performing Latin Music, Bossanova, Fiery or Laid Back Spanish Flamenco Music, Easy Listening Classic Pop, and Jazz fusion.

Pop and Flamenco Solo Guitar Medley

His repertoire for each performance is chosen to cater for the guests or listeners at that particular event and setting. He always tries to perform song requests in his sets which also include more modern styles of music.

Solo Spanish Guitar Musician in London

He is happy to perform at wedding ceremonies at the church or the reception and will learn two songs that are not already on the list if requested early enough.

Repertoire

POP:

Yesterday- The Beatles
And I love her- The Beatles
In my life – The Beatles
Your Song -Elton John
Don’t know why – Norah Jones
Come away with me – Norah Jones
Overjoyed – Stevie Wonder
You are the sunshine of my life – Stevie Wonder
Just the way you are – Billy Joel
Fragile- Sting
An Englishman in New York
Time after Time- Cindy Lauper
Can’t help falling in Love- Elvis
Love me tender- Elvis
Moon River – Audrey Hepburn
Killing me softly- The Fugees
Stand by me- Ben E king
Georgia in My mind-Ray Charles
What a Wonderfull world – Louis Armstrong
This Land- Lion King
Can’t you feel the love tonight- Lion King Elton John
All of me – John Legend

Jazz:

On the sunny side of the street – Jimmy McHugh
Fly me to the moon – Bart Howard
Summertime – George Gershwin
Autumn Leaves – Joseph Kosma
Yesterdays -Jerome Kern
There is no greater love – Isham Jones
Beautiful Love – Victor Young
Misty – Erroll Garner
Latin:
Girl from Ipanema- Carlos “Jobim
Black orpheus- Carlos Jobim
Bésame Mucho- Consuelo Velazquez
Sway- Dean Martin
Piensa en Mi- Agustin Lara
Cavatina (Deer Hunter) – John Williams

Flamenco

Punta y Tacón – Sabicas
Llanto a Cadiz – Paco de Lucía
Punta Umbría – Paco de Lucía
Panaderos Flamencos- Paco de Lucía
Remate- Pepe Habichuela
La Cartuja – Gerardo Nuñez
Air (Flamenco) – Jose Luís Montón
Bulerías
Soléa
Tientos
Tangos
Alegrías

It wasn’t easy to find the right Spanish guitarist. We listened to his music videos and decided to get him to play at our wedding. He arrived on time, was professional, played beautifully and made our day extra special. I asked him to play something from Lion King, and he did really, really well.

We were fortunate to have found such a good musician. Muchas Gracias.

Juan

Comments

Corporate Events Consultant
January 27, 2023 at 3:45 pm
Please email info@musicforlondon.co.uk The date is currently available.
Thank You
Esther Garcia
January 26, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Estimado Luque, mi nombre es Esther garcia, soy la coordinadora de la Universidad nacional de educación a distancia (UNED) el 22 de marzo organizamos un evento en la embajada de España estoy buscando un guitarrista para acompañar una cantante , seria una intervención de unos 20 minutos .
Estaría usted interesado y cual sería el coste.

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Cultural Origins of Latin Jazz begin with Cuba, New York City in particular, the States and Brazil.

Following rhythms and styles of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, blended with percussion, giving a balanced fusion of European and African sound.

Latin Jazz was a result of a long process of nteraction between American and Cuban music styles intertwined together to form 20th Century New Orleans’ early Jazz, that had a distinctive syncopated (accents transitioned to weaker beats) rhythmic character.

The city’s well renowned pianist and composer at the time, Jelly Roll Morton, referred to the Latin influence on Jazz as a “Spanish Tinge”.

The Cuban Habanera Rhythm was very quickly adopted by American Musicians (a syncopated four beat pattern) and could be heard in many of their compositions; especially the popular 1914’s St Louis Blues by W. C. Handy.

Sounds of American Jazz eventually spread through to the Caribbean simultaneously as Latin American melodies and dance rhythms made their way to North America Regions.

Across the entire region, both musicians and bands became more versed with the musical languages, where larger bands soon expanded their own repertoire into congas and rumbas, two types of Afro-Cuban dance music.

Drummers of Afro-Cuban style music played a fundamental role in developing Latin Jazz from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, as it gave the genre its visibly inexhaustible stream of rhythmic patterns, phrasings, and styles all through the means of percussion.

As time progressed, by the early 21st century,Latin Jazz gained popularity and critical acclaim as well as became one of the most dynamic and diverse components of the Jazz World.

The Flamenco is made up of three crucial parts, guitar playing (guitarra), song (cante), and dance (baile). Flamenco dancing evolved from “toque de palmas” which is the combination of singing and the clapping of hands that the dancing was set to. It Is known to be a very emotional style of dance, given the varied purposes flamenco dancing has; whether the intentions are for it to be entertaining, romantic, or comforting, traditional flamenco dancers rarely received any sort of formal training. However, it was seemed to be more of something that was either passed on or passed down from friends, relatives, and neighbors, depicting the very personal and intimate features of the traditional dance. Whilst most dancers follow ancient tradition in the way in which the flamenco is perform, the use of guitars and other musical instruments have been introduced and has become more popular in modern flamenco. Through physical body movements and facial expressions flamenco dancers express their deepest emotions. They may be seen clapping their hands or kick their feet, snap small percussion handheld instruments such as castanets.

It is difficult to imagine a contemporary flamenco show without the hauntingly percussive accompaniment of the flamenco guitar. The flamenco guitar has come to play an increasingly important role over the years, to the extent that the flamenco solo guitar is an independent genre today with even greater international renown. In comparison to classical guitars, there are many ways to distinguish the difference as the purpose of a flamenco guitar is to be able to produce sharper, loud sonic bursts with a bright punchy sound. As an instrument that plays a crucial role in Spanish traditional music, it needs to be able to hold its own when part of the entirety of the performance and when competing with the energetic dancers as it is designed to cut through the noise of flamenco dancing.

Spain is rich with diverse folk music traditions, the most known genres being Flamenco and Celtic. Despite of this, there are ways in which Arabic ties cross through certain regions of Spain with strong influences on traditional music. The Flamenco is a form of dance and song that originates from and is most commonly associated with Southwestern Spain of Andalusian Roma. However, the roots of flamenco seem to lie in the Roma migration from Rajasthan Northwestern India to Spain between the 9th and 14th centuries. It was through this geographical move and cultural collision where they brought an abundance of musical instruments; tambourines, bells, wooden castanets along with an extensive repertoire of compositions and dances. In Spain, they encountered the rich cultures of the Sephardic Jews and the Moors. Their centuries-long of cultural intermingling produced and created the universally loved and known art form of Flamenco.

Cante, which is Spanish for song, is the essence of what makes Flamenco music. There are three categories that make up cante; cante jondo (profound, or deep), cante intermedio or cante flamenco (intermediate) and cante chico (light). The cante jondo whose structure is usually based upon a complex and ectensive 12-beat rhythm, is thought to be the oldest form. It is characterized by deep and profound emotion that deals with themes of death, pain, anguish, despair, or even religious doubt. The cante intermedio is a hybrid version of song that consists elements of Spanish music styles like the fandango. Lastly, the cante chico, is generally a lot simplistic in rhythm than the other two forms, it still demands considerable technical skill but with much less emotional investment, dealing as it usually does with humour, romance, the countryside, and gaiety. Each song and cante style, is distinguished by a characteristic rhythm and chords structure; yet several types of cante may share the same or similar rhythmic tones but individualise them through accentuation, subtleties and emotional content.