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#REDIRECT [[Héctor García]]
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| name = Hector Garcia
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| caption = Hector Garcia
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|11|14}}
| birth_place =[[Hanvana, Cuba]]
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| instrument = [[classical guitar]]
| genre = classical
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'''Hector Garcia''' (born November 14, 1930) is a Cuban-American classical [[guitar]]ist.
He established the first Guitar Department in a United States University (at the
[[University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico at Albuquerque]]) in the 1960s.
==Biography==
Garcia was born in [[Havana, Cuba]]. He came to the United States in the 1960's, where he went on to pursue his career as concert guitarist and educator, founding the first academic department dedicated to classical guitar.
Hector studied very closely with [[Emilio Pujol]] (a disciple of the [[Francisco Tárrega]] school of classical guitar ), working for an extended period as his assistant. Hector adopted and expanded upon the traditions of both Tarrega and Pujol, including for example the "no-nails" approach for guitar playing, which runs counter to the contemporary trend in classical guitar for players to grow the nails of the hand used to pluck strings (usually the right hand). The nails are grown and shaped to optimize sound production, but in the "no-nails" approach, the nails are cut short so that fingertips contact the string directly. The technique produces a sound that has a distinctive, softer characteristic, although the control is often more difficult, especially in passages requiring rapid arpeggio or tremolo.
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| NAME =Garcia, Hector
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Cuban-American musician
| DATE OF BIRTH =1930-11-14
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Havana, Cuba]]
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[[Category:American classical guitarists]]
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[[Category:Musicians from Havana, Cuba]]
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