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Amir John Haddad
German-Spanish flamenco musician
For the tennis player, see Amir Hadad.
Musical artist
Amir John Haddad (born 1975) is a German-Spanish flamenco guitarist and multi-instrumentalist,[3] based in Spain since 1997.[2] He was the official oud, bouzouki and guitar player for Radio Tarifa for almost ten years and in that role received a nomination for Best Folk Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2004.
Background
Haddad was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany[1] (now Germany) in 1975, to a Colombian mother and a Palestinian father.[4] He began learning the Arabic oud at home from his Palestinian father Rimon Haddad, and at the age of 8 he took up flamenco guitar and gave his first public performance at the age of 12.[5] In 1997, at the age of 22, he moved to Jerez de la Frontera, one of the cultural homes of flamenco, to further his skills among the masters there, and moved to Madrid a year later.
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