The body of influential Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia has been buried in his hometown of Algeciras in Spain’s deep south.<br /><br />Hundreds of people gathered in the rain to mourn de Lucia’s passing.<br /><br />He died suddenly of a heart attack after complaining of chest pains while on holiday in Mexico last week.<br /><br />The 66-year-old virtuoso helped to legitimise flamenco in Spain at a time when it was shunned by the mainstream. <br /><br />“I learned the guitar like a child learns to speak,” the guitarist said in a 2012 documentary.
