GRAMMY Winners Continue Their 25th Anniversary Celebration In Support of New Album, SAVOR FLAMENCO
GRAMMY winners Gipsy Kings will be returning to the States this May for the second leg of the group's 25th Anniversary Tour. The band will be performing shows in Florida, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, the Mid West, and Canada.
Opening for the Gipsy Kings will be Ole Noys, comprised of Mickael Baliardo, Cosso Baliardo and Yohan Reyes, sons of the Gipsy Kings Toninno Baliardo and Nicolas Reyes. Ole Noys' music is a mixture of old gipsy folk songs mixed with the more contemporary sounds of today.
CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND's Caitlin White writes of the Gipsy Kings, "There is a certain childlike lack of self-consciousness in their music. It is unbridled and swept away in its own momentum"
The band won its first GRAMMY this year in the Best World Music Album category for their album SAVOR FLAMENCO. This is the group's sixth Nomination, and a record for the most nominations in the world music category.
Gipsy Kings' album, SAVOR FLAMENCO on Knitting Factory Records, is the group's first new release in six years. SAVOR FLAMENCO also marks The Gipsy Kings' 25th Anniversary of their first U.S. Release, GIPSY KINGS in 1987. It is also the first time that the Kings have produced themselves and written all of their material.
Based in Camargue, the very famous land by the Mediterranean Sea, the Gipsy Kings are made up of two families--the Reyes family from Arles and the Baliardos from Montpellier. The musical adventure of these two families started in the 1960s when Jose Reyes was singing with Manitas de Plata (Ricardo Baliardo) performing all around the world in theaters including Carnegie Hall in New York City. There is music by Manitas de Plata y Jose Reyes on youtube. Their fans included Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Miles Davis and Charlie Chaplin.
When the duo parted ways, Jose Reyes became even more popular after starting his own band, Los Reyes. His sons backed him up. When the elder Reyes passed away in 1979, Nicolas and Andre began playing with the Baliardo brothers in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer during the The Gypsy's Pilgrimage. They traveled, busking nearby on the streets of Saint-Tropez, performing on beaches during the day and for celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot by night. "Los Reyes" means "The Kings," and the band changed their name to The Gipsy Kings.
The Gipsy Kings' musical style has been called "Rumba Flamenca" which allows Gipsy Kings to combine traditional flamenco styles with Western Pop and Latin rhythms, Latin and Cuban styles, Arabic, reggae, jazz, and--of course--gypsy styles!
The band speaks French, and performs music in Spanish dialect of Gitane, the native Gipsy language, that is a mixture of Spanish, French, and Catalan. The root of the Gitane culture is in the southern part of Spain that includes Seville and Granada. One of the economically depressed areas of Europe, this region has given the world flamenco music, bullfighting and Moorish-influenced Architecture. The people in that area are known as "Gitanos," Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). (The term "gitano" comes from "Egiptano," a Spanish term for "Egyptian" as the English word "Gypsy" comes from "Egyptian.")
The Gipsy Kings have sold over 25 million albums worldwide.
Gipsy Kings' first U.S. album, GIPSY KINGS was released in the United States in 1987, and charted for 40 weeks. This 25 year old album has been certified gold or platinum in at least 15 countries. The group is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated act.
The single from GIPSY KINGS was "Bamboleo," which was used in a Burger King commercial and recently covered on the TV show, GLEE.
Gipsy Kings' "Hotel California" is in the movie, THE BIG LEBOWSKI and HBO series ENTOURAGE.
The 2010 film TOY STORY 3 featured a Gipsy Kings version of the movie's popular, Randy Newman-penned theme, "You've Got a Friend in Me." The band also performed the song on DANCING WITH THE STARS.
PBS filmed a documentary about the Gipsy Kings called TIERRA GITANA.
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05/13/14 Hard Rock Live - Orlando, FL on sale March 7
05/14/14 Mahaffey Theater - Saint Petersburg, FL on sale March 7
05/15/14 Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock - Hollywood, FL on sale March 7
05/16/14 Florida Theatre - Jacksonville, FL on sale March 7
05/18/14 House of Blues - Houston, TX on sale March 7
05/19/14 Majestic Theatre - San Antonio, TX on sale March 7
05/20/14 Strauss Square at AT&T Performing Arts Center - Dallas, TX on sale March 28
05/21/14 The Moody Theater - Austin, TX on sale March 7
05/23/14 Socorro Ent Center - Socorro, TX free show
05/24/14 Fox Tucson Theatre - Tucson, AZ on sale March 7
05/25/14 Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino - Chandler, AZ on sale March 7
05/28/14 Count Basie Theatre - Red Bank, NJ on sale March 7
05/30/14 Casino Rama Entertainment Centre - Orilla, Ontario on sale March 19
05/31/14 Hard Rock Rocksino - Northfield, OH on sale March 14
06/01/14 Chicago Theatre - Chicago, IL on sale March 15
06/02/14 Riverside Theater - Milwaukee, WI on sale March 14
8/30/14 The Greek Theater - Los Angeles, CA TBA
