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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...

Gipsy's carreer as a musician has gone through a lot. In the mid-nineties he was a founder of the hip-hop crew Syndrom Snopp. There, he was the first MC, writing and rapping surprisingly deep and intelligent texts, supported with the samples played by DJ Smog. Syndrom Snopp produced three albums altogether, although it never became a famous and wide-known crew. In 2003, Gipsy decided to try something on his own. With DJ Smog he compiled an english album Ya Favourite CD-Rom. Shortly after, the crew Syndrom Snopp practically became history. Gipsy's other attempt was an R'n'B album which finally, maybe...

The band GIPSYLAND comes from Camargue near Montpellier in the South of France. It is an area around Arles where rice grows and bulls and horses wander. In this primeval swamps landscape, the small town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is THE Mecca for all the gypsies all around the world that meet there once a year. The music of GIPSYLAND mainly stemming from traditional gipsy music, the GIPSYLAND style adds touches of salsa and samba as well as other musical styles. .

Gipsy Rufina is an alias of the travelling singer-songwriter Emiliano Liberali from Rome, Italy. From a small "freak out" town between the mountains in the center of Italy, the so called Saint Valley, he desired to see what was beyond the mountains. Over the mountains was Rome, where Gipsy played in different bands in the 90s hardcore punk scene. Soon Rome with its enclosed Caput Mundi mentality became really small. In 2002, he wanted to see what was over the ocean. Once over ocean it made sense to cross the United States on the Greyhound for months and start to...

The Gipsys is an Argentine Garage/Freakbeat group from Buenos Aires. They release one album, one EP and some singles. .