Flávio Augusto Rodrigues Marques (born on 12/04/1979, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian musician, composer, musical director and arranger.
During the same time, in 1994, he starts to study flamenco guitar in the “Centro Flamenco Pepe de Córdoba” (São Paulo - Brazil), with Fernando de la Rua.
In 1998, he moved to Spain for the first time where he studied with three main flamenco guitar masters: Manolo Sanlúcar, Gerardo Núñez, and Rafael Riqueni.
Since 2000, living in Madrid, he worked with main flamenco artists such as Antonio Canales, Manuel Reyes, Domingo Ortega, Belén Fernández, Rafaela Carrasco, Belén Maya, Concha Jareño, Adela Campallo, Pastora Galván, Rocío Molina, Rubén Olmo, Manuel Liñán, Marco Flores, Maria Juncal, Concha Jareño, Belén Lopez, Alfonso Losa, José Maya (Joselillo Romero), Rafael Estevez, Pitingo, Rafael Jiménez "Falo", Talegón de Córdoba, Agustin Carbonell “Bola”, Lole Montoya (Lole y Manuel), Montse Cortes, Pepe Habichuela, José Jiménez "el Viejín", José Luís Montón, Juan Parrilla, Rubém Dantas, Juan Gomez “Chicuelo”, Jorge Pardo, José Soto "Sorderita", and also with important Brazilian artists as Filó Machado, Nana Vasconcelos, Carlinhos Antunes, Yamandu Costa, Sizao Machado, Renato Martins, Thiago Espirito Santo, Alex Buck, etc.
He has also been invited to work with several groups and projects in over 40 countries and collaborates with main artists of different styles: Yoshida Brothers (Japan), The Savage Rose (Denmark), Trilok Gurtu (India), and Hossam Ramzy (Egypt).