French flamenco guitar legend Manitas de Plata has died in the south of France at the age of 93. <br /><br />The son of a horse trader, he was born Ricardo Baliardo in a gypsy caravan at Sète in the south of France in 1921.<br /><br />As a child, he never learned to read and write, but mastered the guitar by the age of nine without ever reading a note of music.<br /><br />He sold 93 million records and remains France’s biggest selling artist.
