Artist: Gipsy Kings: mp3 download Genre(s): Latin Folk Latin: Flamenco Pop: Latin New Age Other Discography: The Very Best Of Year: 2005 Tracks: 20 Roots Year: 2004 Tracks: 16 Instrumental Compilation Year: 2002 Tracks: 19 Somos Gitanos Year: 2001 Tracks: 13 Instrumental Best Year: 2000 Tracks: 19 Volare (CD 2) CD2 Year: 1999 Tracks: 18 Volare (CD 1) CD1 Year: 1999 Tracks: 20 Compas Year: 1997 Tracks: 15 Estrellas Year: 1995 Tracks: 13 Love and Liberte Year: 1994 Tracks: 13 Gipsy Kings Live Year: 1992 Tracks: 17 Este Mundo Year: 1991 Tracks: 12 Live In Los Angeles - US Tour '90 Year: 1990 Tracks: 14 Gipsy Kings Year: 1990 Tracks: 13 Mosaique Year: 1989 Tracks: 12 Allegria Year: 1989 Tracks: 12 Luna de fuego Year: 1983 Tracks: 10 Tierra Gitana Year: Tracks: 13 Greatest Hits Year: Tracks: 18 Baila Me (Maxi Cd Single) Year: Tracks: 3 The Gipsy Kings ar largely responsible for pitch the gleeful sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco, called Sevillana in Spain, to the humankind. The band started out in Arles, a hamlet in southern France during the '70s when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of celebrated gypsy saltation artist Jose Reyes, teamed up with their cousins Jacques, Maurice and Tonino Baliardo, whose father is Manitas de Plata. They originally called themselves Los Reyes and started out as a roma isthmus traveling near playing weddings, festivals, and in the streets. Because they lived so often care gypsies, the isthmus adopted the name the Gipsy Kings. Later, they were chartered to tag on color to posh parties in St. Tropez. Popularity did not add up to Los Reyes right away and their first base devil albums attracted small observation. At this item the Gipsies played traditional, albeit passionate flamenco music punctuated by Tonino's exact guitar playing and Nicolas' exceptional voice. Though they had devoted fans, they soundless had all the same to arrive at wider acknowledgement until 1986 when they aquiline up with visionary maker Claude Martinez world Health Organization could see that the Kings had the makings of a foremost lot. Thanks to Martinez, the Kings began to relax a bit and choose on a more contemporary border, combining their traditional songs with sounds from the Middle East, Latin America, North Africa, a touch of tilt, and their inimitable delight. It was, in a music manufacture filled with flamenco purists world Health Organization resisted whatever kind of change, a very hardiness move, and many felt the Gipsy Kings would fall monotonous and vanish. But the nay-sayers were wrong. In 1987, they released "Djobi Djoba" and "Bamboleo," on an autonomous label and scored deuce smash up hits in France. Their success lED them to sign with Sony Music and release their eponymic debut album by and by that year. Again, they had terrific gross revenue in France and then plant their album was appearing on the Top Ten album charts in 12 European countries including England, which is traditionally unreceptive to external music. In the late '80s, the Gipsy Kings, debuted in the U.S. at a New York New Music Seminar. This light-emitting diode them to sign to Sony in America. In 1989, they were invited to perform at the inaugural ball for George Bush, simply they chose to return home to pillow and be with their families. Later that year, they held an SRO concert at the Royal Albert Hall, where the Gipsy Kings hobnobbed with some of the world's biggest come out stars including Elton John and Eric Clapton. To top off their slap-up class, the Kings' debut album washed-out 40 weeks on the U.S. charts and went au, becoming one of the few Spanish albums to do so. The Kings get had an active spill schedule e'er since, including the albums Mosaique (1989), Live! (1992), Love & Liberte (1994), Tierra Gitana (1996), Cantos de Amor (1998), Somos Gitanos (2001), Roots (2004) and Pasajero (2007). |