Niño Baliardo & Gipsy Dynasty: Picasso

Baliardo, Niño;
Gipsy Dynasty

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NEW ALBUM BY ORIGINAL FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE GIPSY KINGS Niño Baliardo entered the family business. A great ambassador of the Catalan rumba, his father Hippolyte founded in the late 1950s a group called Los Baliardos, which was to reveal the extraordinary talents of his brother Ricardo, soon to be celebrated under his nickname of Manitas de Plata, and his first cousin José Reyes, a singer with a powerful and peculiarly expressive voice who became a major flamenco star. It is to this heritage that son Niño pays homage today in the company of numerous heirs of the Baliardo clan assembled under the appropriate name of Gipsy Dynasty . Born on 19 June 1961, Bruno Niño Baliardo recorded for CBS at the age of nine, under the name of Niño el Suerte, an LP which particularly impressed Pablo Picasso, a family friend for whom the album is titled. He went on to appear in the first part of the concerts of his uncle Manitas at leading international venues. He experienced from the inside, as one of the principal protagonists, the adventure of the popular renewal of Gypsy music. In order to perpetuate the family tradition, in the early 1980s he co-founded with his cousin Nicolas Reyes (the eldest son of José Reyes) the Gipsy Kings. He gave the group its first great worldwide successes, among them the famous Djobi Djoba, before leaving, without bitterness, a group that was gradually diverging from his demanding criteria. Niño Baliardo is undoubtedly one of the last great specialists of the Cante Jondo, the "deep song", the primitive and intensely dramatic style of Andalusian flamenco singing which requires a profound sensibility and great expressive capacities. In order to relate the odyssey of the Gypsy people, Niño Baliardo has created a show called "Le Grand Voyage" from which most of the titles on the present album are taken. On stage, his Gipsy Family is enriched notably by the participation of Dhoad, a group of Gypsies from Rajasthan.

CD

World music

Le Chant Du Monde

19-12-2011

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