Luísa Amaro

Portuguese guitarist (playing the Portuguese guitar, not the familiar classical one). Luísa Amaro studied Classical Guitar at the National Conservatory of Lisbon with Professor Lopes e Silva and in Barcelona, ​​in 1983, with Maria Luisa Anido. In the following year, she started playing with the great Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes (1925-2004), accompanying him on classical guitar (which the Portuguese confusingly call the viola) in hundreds of concerts around the world. Since 1996, she has dedicated herself to the Portuguese guitar as a composer and performer in her own right.