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 Gipsy Kings is a music group from Arles and Montpellier, France. They explained the evolution of their sound in the 1996 PBS documentary of their lives and music "Tierra Gitana (Gipsy Land)". Young brothers Nicolas, Canut and Paul Reyes accompanied their father, famed flamenco singer Jose Reyes, who started out singing "cante jondo" (deep chant), traditional flamenco with long-running themes of passion, love, death, etc. But they began playing rumba flamenca because "we liked to watch pretty girls dance," said Nicolas. Latin American beats had been joined with flamenco by gitanos since at least the 1950s, mixing complex strumming with rhythmic, percussive tapping on their guitars' tops.
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Nicolas Reyes (Lead vocals), Pablo Reyes (Backup vocals, guitar), Canut Reyes (Backup vocals, guitar), Patchai Reyes (Backup vocals, guitar), Andre Reyes (Guitar), Diego Baliardo (Guitar), Paco Baliardo (Guitar), Tonino Baliardo (Lead guitar) |
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