Niño Ricardo
Full name
Manuel Serrapí Sánchez
Place of birth
Sevilla
Biography
Manuel Serrapí Sánchez was born in Sevilla in 1904 and died in this Andalucian capital in 1974 He was one of the greatest guitarists in history along with Ramón Montoya, Sabicas and Paco de Lucía His biographer, Humberto J Wilkes, asserts that he adopted the style of his three main precedents: the cited Ramón Montoya, Manolo de Huelva and Javier Molina
From very young, when he announced himself as Manolito el Carbonero - Monlito the Coleman - as he worked in this job, he excelled for his accompaniment, even accompanying great figures of the times At eighteen years of age he regularly accompanied Niña de los Peines and his brother Tomás Pavón He created his own style called «Ricardismo», and introduce many new techniques until then unknown
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