Manuel Cano Tamayo

Manuel Cano Tamayo (Granada, February 23, 1925 - January 12, 1990) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and music teacher.

Biography Born into a family where musical performance was the order of the day (his father played the guitar and his mother the lute), he received his first guitar at the age of seven from his grandfather. He studied industrial surveying, in order to help his family, so he began his professional career as a guitarist late in the 1950s. which allowed him to dedicate himself to training while composing. He published about twenty LP's, among them, Evocación de la guitarra de Ramón Montoya (International Flamenco Record Award).