Ricardo Pachón, an important and influential flamenco music producer, dies in Seville
August, 21; 2026. By Arscodex
Two days ago, on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, Ricardo Pachón, an important and influential flamenco music producer, passed away in Seville at the age of 89.
Ricardo, a lawyer by profession and a musician by vocation, collaborated with the Seville City Council and held various positions in the public sector.
His greatest achievements included producing albums such as "La leyenda del tiempo" by Camarón de la Isla. Its main track, also called "La leyenda del tiempo," was composed by Pachón himself with lyrics by Federico García Lorca. It stands out on the album, bringing a fresh, enigmatic, and symbolic feel to the flamenco genre, supported by Camarón's voice and the aforementioned poet's lyrics.
He has also produced albums for other artists, such as the short-lived band Veneno, featuring Kiko Veneno (who also wrote one of the songs on the aforementioned album, "La leyenda del tiempo," in this case the track "Volando voy," another great flamenco song) and others.
This concludes his work as a "standard" music producer. But there's something else we haven't mentioned about this personality, Ricardo Pachón, and that's his personal archive containing recordings of parties, interviews, old songs, and so on, all related to the musical genre he loved: flamenco.
Some authoritative voices today consider this archive "legendary"; and nobody knows, or very few people know for sure, what's in it, but it certainly looks (from an outsider's perspective) like something incredible.
Therefore, this archive, which was in the process of being properly exploited artistically, should be meticulously studied and safeguarded, by qualified technicians from the Regional Government, for example, and even, if possible, "expropriated" (obviously that's not possible) ha, ha, ha. Joking aside, it is essential that Ricardo's heirs and the public sector dedicated to culture in Andalusia reach an agreement on how to dispose of all those phonograms and videograms that make up this now legendary archive.
In short, we have lost a great figure in Spanish music, who preferred to remain in the background rather than as a headliner, but who, as time goes by, is proving to be indispensable in the history of the art he loved: flamenco.
Ricardo, a lawyer by profession and a musician by vocation, collaborated with the Seville City Council and held various positions in the public sector.
His greatest achievements included producing albums such as "La leyenda del tiempo" by Camarón de la Isla. Its main track, also called "La leyenda del tiempo," was composed by Pachón himself with lyrics by Federico García Lorca. It stands out on the album, bringing a fresh, enigmatic, and symbolic feel to the flamenco genre, supported by Camarón's voice and the aforementioned poet's lyrics.
He has also produced albums for other artists, such as the short-lived band Veneno, featuring Kiko Veneno (who also wrote one of the songs on the aforementioned album, "La leyenda del tiempo," in this case the track "Volando voy," another great flamenco song) and others.
This concludes his work as a "standard" music producer. But there's something else we haven't mentioned about this personality, Ricardo Pachón, and that's his personal archive containing recordings of parties, interviews, old songs, and so on, all related to the musical genre he loved: flamenco.
Some authoritative voices today consider this archive "legendary"; and nobody knows, or very few people know for sure, what's in it, but it certainly looks (from an outsider's perspective) like something incredible.
Therefore, this archive, which was in the process of being properly exploited artistically, should be meticulously studied and safeguarded, by qualified technicians from the Regional Government, for example, and even, if possible, "expropriated" (obviously that's not possible) ha, ha, ha. Joking aside, it is essential that Ricardo's heirs and the public sector dedicated to culture in Andalusia reach an agreement on how to dispose of all those phonograms and videograms that make up this now legendary archive.
In short, we have lost a great figure in Spanish music, who preferred to remain in the background rather than as a headliner, but who, as time goes by, is proving to be indispensable in the history of the art he loved: flamenco.
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