He was one of five children of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sánchez Pecino and Portuguese mother Lúcia Gomes.

Like Paco, Antonio introduced Ramón to the guitar at a very young age and by his teens he was quite an accomplished player.

He idolized Niño Ricardo, and taught his complex falsetas to his young brother Paco, who would learn them with relative ease and change them to his own liking and embellish them.

[1] De Algeciras began his career in 1953 under the tutelage of his father, Antonio Sánchez Pecino, spending more than a decade with the company of Juanito Valderrama.

They met Esteban Sanlúcar in Buenos Aires and Juan Serrano in Detroit and in 1970 spent considerable time in New York City where they grew close to Sabicas and Mario Escudero and would play together into the night.