El Viejín

El Viejín, (born José Jiménez in 1963 in Madrid[1]), is a Spanish flamenco guitarist.

He is often billed as José Jiménez 'El Viejín'.

[2] Influenced by Sabicas like many of his contemporaries, he rose to fame as a flamenco guitarist in the late 1970s and 1980s and is one of the best-known Madrid-based flamenco guitarists.

[3][4][5] Transcriptions to his works have been created by a Madrid-based guitarist and musicologist Enrique Vargas and published by VG Ediciones [6] In 2008 he was reported to be "in the process of founding the Caño Roto school of flamenco guitar with his long-time friend Enrique Vargas.

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