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Flamenco guitarist Cañizares wins a 2008 Music Award for his album ‘Suite Iberia’
Cañizares (Photo Daniel Muñoz)

Flamenco guitarist Cañizares wins a 2008 Music Award for his album ‘Suite Iberia’. Although the award wasn’t in the category of flamenco, which in this twelfth edition went to Juan Habichuela for ‘Una guitarra en Granada’, but rather in that of ‘best classical music performer’. And the thing is that the latest album by Juan Manuel Cañizares “is the fruit of four years of work to transfer Isaac Albéniz’s original score for piano to flamenco guitar”. Upon receiving the statuette, which was awarded to him at the presentation of Festival Suma Flamenca 2008, which will close with the album in concert on June 15th, the musician said that “it’s a really symbolic prize because it means the brotherly union of two great sorts of music; classical and flamenco”.