Biography
Alirio Diaz is one of the true masters of the Spanish guitar. A student of Raul Borges, the originator of Venezuela's Spanish guitar tradition, in the late-1940s, Diaz has continued to garner international acclaim for his instrumental wizardry. The eighth of eleven brothers, born in the small Venezuelan town of Caserio La Candelara, near Carora, Diaz experimented with several instruments before settling on the guitar as a teen. Initially studying with Borges, at Conservatory C... Read more