The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158534   Message #3804381
Posted By: keberoxu
09-Aug-16 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: Gipsy Kings and new generations
Subject: RE: Gipsy Kings and new generations
With an Internet search engine, as remarked above, you can rake up a lot of recent muck about the musicians who used to play and record all together, first as Los Reyes, then as the Gipsy Kings (Francois Mattei claims that Chico Bouchikhi insisted, years before fame and success on an international scale, on switching to an English-language group name). It's easier to do muck-raking, as such, with some knowledge of French, as this is their official native language, as France is the country of their birth and where they make their homes. And if any of the prurient tacky notices get reproduced on this thread, it will not be by me; I can't stop others from doing so, but I choose not to do it myself.

To demonstrate that there is more music-making going on, currently, than one group can contain, here are links to a number of websites.

the group Chico & the Gypsies This group will perform in August in Monte Carlo.

Gipsy Kings with Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo, coming to a North American casino resort near you

the newest and most surprising Post-Gipsy-Kings combination