El Viejín

Flamenco, Musical Artist

1963 –

20

Who is El Viejín?

El Viejín, is a Spanish flamenco guitarist. He is often billed as Josè Jimenez 'El Viejin' . Influenced by Sabicas like many of his contemporaries, he rose to fame as a flamenco guitarist in the late 1970s and 1980s and is one of the best known Madrid-based flamenco guitarists. Transcriptions to his works have been created by a Madrid based guitarist and musicologist Enrique Vargas and published by VG Ediciones In 2008 he was reported to be "in the process of founding the Caño Roto school of flamenco guitar with his long-time friend Enrique Vargas."

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Born
1963
Madrid
Lived in
  • Madrid

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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