Juan Manuel Cañizares (born 1966) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer.

In 1982, he won the "Premio Nacional de Guitarra de la Peña Los Cernícalos" in Jerez de la Frontera,[1] and then started to collaborate with flamenco and jazz musicians such as: Enrique Morente, Camarón de la Isla, María Pagés, Pepe de Lucía, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Rocío Jurado, Peter Gabriel, Al Di Meola, Mike Stern, Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza, Michael Brecker, Marc Almond, La Fura dels Baus, The Chieftains, etc.

In 2011, Cañizares was invited by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to their European Concert at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, and played Concierto de Aranjuez with the Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

In 2016 Cañizares gave a recital in homage of his teacher Paco de Lucía.

[2] In 2016 he participated in J: Beyond Flamenco, a film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, performing "Jota de Tárrega".