Gipsy Kings
Time & Place
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Ferguson Center for the Arts
October 15, 2014, 7:30 p.m. - 12 a.m.
1 Avenue of the Arts
Newport News, VA 23606 -
Phone: 757-594-7448
Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
Website: Click here to visit us online
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Ferguson Center for the Arts
Description
Come celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Grammy Award-winning Gipsy Kings! Based in Camargue, by the Mediterranean Sea, the Gipsy Kings are made up of two families — the Reyes family from Arles and the Baliardos from Montpellier. In 1979, after years of performing separately, a single event — the death of Jose Reyes— led to the families combining their musical talents. The Gipsy Kings’ musical style has been called “Rumba Flamenca,” which allows the 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. World-renowned, the Gipsy Kings have sold over 25 million albums.