Paco Pe�a is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional Flamenco players. Born in C�rdoba, Spain as Francisco Pe�a P�rez, Paco Pe�a began learning to play the guitar from his brother at age 6 and made his first professional appearance at 12. Encouraged by his family, he left home and began performing throughout Spain as part of a government-sponsored folk music and dance program. This led to calls from professional Flamenco companies in Madrid and the Costa Brava, where Pe�a established himself as a highly regarded accompanist to Flamenco dance and singing. However, dissatisfied with life on the coast and seeking a new challenge, he moved to London in the late 1960s to become a soloist. Initially the star attraction in the Restaurante Antonio in Covent Garden, Pe�a generated so much interest among a British public previously uninitiated in Flamenco that he soon found himself sharing concerts with artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and made his solo debut at Wigmore Hall in 1967. 

June 1st, 1942 in Córdoba (Age 81) as Francisco Peña Pérez