He"s owner of one of th most significant legates from the Flamenco planet, as he"s the great-grandson of Niño Gloria and nineteenth-century seguiriya maestro Paco la Luz. He is also son of Manuel Soto Sordera, the patriarch of Jerez flamenco, and cousin of José Mercé.
He"s got many distinctions and Flamenco awards (Premio Nacional de Cordoba, Premio Pastora Pavon, Premio Mairena del Alcor). At the same time the work of Vicente Soto “Sordera” has always been innovative as he has demonstrated with his musical adaptations of the lyrics of some of the big names of hispanic poetry: Antonio Machado, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca or Rubén Darío. Vicente Soto has performed at many Flamenco and Latin Festivals in the world and big world stages as: Louisiana Scala di Milan, Theatre National de Paris, Teatro Avenida de Buenos Aires, Teatro Comunale di Roma, Theatre Albeniz de Madrid, Theatre Sao Luiz de Lisboa.. and all over United States of America, Japan, South America, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Holland, et cetera
