Real name: Mario Escudero Valero Jiménez Valverde

Effective period / Period of releases: 1955 - 1975

Mario Escudero,flamenco guitarist, best known in the world in the history of the art of flamenco guitar with his own stage name of Mario Escudero, born in Alicante on October 11, 1928, died in Miami (USA) on November 19, 2004. His father was a Gitano and his mother was from Andalusia and moved to Madrid as a child to study guitar. In the beginning he traded under the artistic name of El Niño De Alicante.