Word: guitarristas
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...scampish Bohemian who dressed like a gypsy, sported a wide-brimmed hat and passed himself off as a guitarrista, Manolo boasted that he "knew all the thieves of my time." No one doubted his word. The illegitimate son of a proud Spanish officer, he was urged to make the army his career; instead, he deserted when he was drafted, hid out in Barcelona with gypsies, petty thieves and the hungry artists who met at the IV Gats café. On the side he studied painting and sculpture...
...asked a tough Jalisco-born busman, "to throw off a guitarrista who sings so sweetly of my birthplace? Do you hear what he is playing?" At the back of the bus, grinning broadly, the troubador sang a song from Jalisco-Cuando Mueren los Valientes (When Brave...
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