What kind of music is Gipsy Kings?

What kind of music is Gipsy Kings?

flamenco music
Building from the traditional flamenco music of their Spanish Romani ancestors, France’s Gipsy Kings occupy a unique place in the world’s music. Featuring two bands of brothers, the Gipsy Kings blend their deep flamenco roots with Cuban, Brazilian and Middle Eastern music and European and American pop.

Did Gipsy Kings split?

They first called themselves Los Reyes and traveled around, playing at weddings, festivals and in the streets and adopting the name Gipsy Kings. The band later split up.

Do the Gipsy Kings sing in Catalan?

Again, from the GipsyKings.net site–a link to a Vancouver Sun newspaper article that tells us “The Kings speak and sing in the French Provencal and northern Spanish Catalan dialects in addition to the gypsies’ own Romany language…”

What is the gypsy Kings real name?

Are Gipsy Kings alive?

Although the group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani who fled Spain during the 1930s Spanish Civil War….

Are Gipsy Kings still alive?

The Gipsy Kings have spent a remarkable two-and-a-half decades at the top, in a category that’s all their own. Yet in those occasional periods when they aren’t touring, the band members still live with their families in the south of France, the area that defined their identities and their sound.