Born into a family where musical performance was the order of the day (his father played the guitar and his mother the lute), he received his first guitar at the age of seven from his grandfather. He studied industrial surveying, in order to help his family, so he began his professional career as a guitarist late in the 1950s. He won the chair of flamenco guitar at the Conservatorio Superior de Música "Rafael Orozco" in Córdoba by competitive examination, which allowed him to dedicate himself to training while composing. He published about twenty LP's, among them, Evocación de la guitarra de Ramón Montoya (International Flamenco Record Award).
