Interview
Rodrigo y Gabriela: ‘Dublin in 1999 was just fantastic. People embraced so much what we were doing’
The Grammy-winning Mexican guitar duo got their start busking on Grafton Street and have now sold over 1.5 million records. Their genre-blending new album was conceived during lockdown
Ask any Irish person if they know Rodrigo y Gabriela, and they’ll respond with fond recognition, as if they’re acquainted with them personally. In these parts, perhaps the best-known thing about the virtuoso Mexican guitar duo is not their Grammy win, or the fact that they’ve played for Barack Obama, or sold well over 1.5 million records, but that they got their start busking on Grafton Street.
“We came to Ireland, to Dublin . . ...
