EL CAMINO - GIPSY KINGS - (1989) video free download

THE GIPSY KINGS are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of Moroccan and Algerian descent. They are known for bringing Rumba Catalana, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco music, to worldwide audiences. The group originally called itself Los Reyes. Their music has a particular Rumba Flamenca style, with pop influences; many songs of the Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as Salsa and Rumba. Their music has been described as a place where "Spanish flamenco and Romani rhapsody meet salsa funk".

Background

The Gipsy Kings are from France, and are largely responsible for bringing the sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco to the world. The band started out in Arles, a town in southern France, during the 1970s, when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of renowned flamenco 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 gypsy band. They traveled around, playing at weddings, festivals, and in the streets. Because they lived so much like gypsies, the band adopted the name the Gipsy Kings. Later, they were hired to add color to posh parties in St. Tropez. Popularity did not come to "Los Reyes" right away, and their first two albums attracted little notice. At this point, the Gipsies played traditional flamenco music punctuated by Tonino's precise guitar playing and Nicolas' exceptional voice. Though they had devoted fans, they had yet to gain wider recognition until 1986 when they met producer Claude Martinez, who could see that the Kings had the makings of a world-class band.

Career

They became popular with their self-titled first album, Gipsy Kings, which included the songs "Djobi Djoba" [1], "Bamboleo" [2] and the romantic ballad "Un Amor". The song "Volare" on their fourth album Mosaïque is a rumba version of Domenico Modugno's Italian hit "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu". The Gipsy Kings were enormously popular in Africa and throughout Europe, as well as in the Middle East. In 1989, Gipsy Kings was released in the United States, and it spent 40 weeks on the charts, one of very few Spanish language albums to do so. They covered "I've Got No Strings" on the 1991 Disney video and compilation album Simply Mad About the Mouse. Their cover version of "Hotel California" is an example of fast flamenco guitar leads and rhythmic strumming (this version was featured in the Coen Brothers' movie The Big Lebowski, as well on the HBO series Entourage). The 2010 film Toy Story 3 featured a version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" performed and recorded by the Gipsy Kings; the Spanish release featured the Spanish version, titled "Hay un Amigo en Mi" and played in a Spanish flamenco style.

Members

Gipsy Kings are members of two related families: the Reyes (Kings in Spanish) and the Baliardos. They are cousins of the flamenco great Manitas de Plata, whose granddaughter lead guitarist Tonino Baliardo married (?). Nicolas, Canut, Paul, Andre and Patchai Reyes are sons of the flamenco singer Jose Reyes. The Gipsy Kings are: