Like a soccer player grows up with the ball at his feet, musician Gustavo Pazos grows up with the guitar under his arm. "I come from a strong guitar tradition," says Pazos, who was born in Uruguay in 1960. "Our folk music is based on the guitar. My dad played guitar, half the neighborhood played guitar. Just as you find flamenco in Spain, so you find the guitar in Uruguay."
Uruguay: emptiness, thinness, vast fields
Storyteller
Like a true storyteller, the phenomenal guitarist Gustavo takes Pazos will take you to the Uruguyan countryside of his youth. In this recital he sketches an intimate musical self-portrait. He plays his own compositions based on Uruguyan folk music, steeped in South American rhythms and melancholic melodies. Pazos sings of the black earth, the merry moon and about Caraguatá, the region in Uruguay that was named to the thistle that covers the fields and where the emptiness and stillness make the determine life
Gustavo Pazos
Gustavo Pazos Conde received his first guitar lessons from his father. In Uruguay he studied with Magdalena Jimeno. In the Netherlands he continued his studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In addition to the traditional six-string guitar, he also plays a seven-string guitar, both built by the Amsterdam based guitarist luthier Otto Vowinkel.
Pazos - Ta'bailanta