The song "Volare" on their second album Mosaique is a rumba version of Domenico Modugno's Italian hit "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu".
They became popular with their self-titled first album, Gipsy Kings, which included the songs "Djobi Djoba", "Bamboleo" and the romantic ballad "Un Amor". They played roma parties and street corners until they got their chance to record under the group's new name, Gipsy Kings.
The new Reyes generation -soon to meet and join up with three guitar-playing brothers from the Baliardo family - began creating more pop-oriented songs in the style. so for us to get girls to dance, to get women to dance, it's the rumba." Latin American beats had been joined with flamenco by gitanos since at least the 1950's, mixing complex strumming with rhythmic, percussive tapping on their guitars' tops. Traditional flamenco song forms were not danced to except by "really great flamenco dancers," said Nicholas when they played parties, "we like pretty girls. ” They explained the evolution of their sound in the 1996 PBS documentary of their lives and music "Tierra Gitana (Gipsy Ground)." Young brothers Nicholas, Canut and Paul Reyes accompanied their father, famed flamenco singer Jose Reyes, who started out singing "cante jondo (deep song)," traditional flamenco with long-running themes of passion, love, death, etc. to where Spanish flamenco and Romani rhapsody meet salsa funk.and hot-blooded passion reigns supreme. Many songs of the Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as Samba, Salsa and Rumba.“ Be forewarned: Gipsy Kings will put a spell on you. They are Calé (Gitano) musicians, best known for bringing Rumba Catalana, a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music to worldwide audiences, a kind of Rumba Flamenca. Their parents fled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The Gipsy Kings Biography Gipsy Kings are a group from Arles and Montpellier in France.
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