| 25 million albums sales, a GRAMMY® Award, sellout tours across the globe and a legendary Glastonbury 2024 performance: the Gipsy Kings and their founder Tonino Baliardo have come a long way since they started out playing the streets, weddings and bars of their native Arles, France in 1979. Continuing to keep the rich, passionate, virtuosic traditions of flamenco music and Catalan gipsy culture alive, the Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo now share the new single “Historia.” It is the title track to their new album which follows on May 15th via Cooking Vinyl. The irrepressible “Historia” is full of the hallmarks that have made Gipsy Kings a longstanding international success: the sheer joy, rambunctious rhythms fervent atmosphere that made the likes of “Bamboléo” and “Djobi, Djoba” so memorable; impassioned vocals; jazzy piano flourishes and, naturally, Tonino Baliardo’s famous and inimitable guitar style. It’s a song which represents a cocktail of all the many genres and global sounds that have inspired the band’s journey – its title also representative of the new album’s direction. Tonino says, “I have always wanted to record an album where the music that has influenced my life as a Gipsy is reflected. My music has no borders, and our music is universal. I came up with the title ‘Historia’ because it means what has happened in the past, and I wanted to create an album with all the different musical influences I have experienced over the years travelling and performing around the world. The tracks on Historia cross over from rhumba, pop, dance jazz, and of course have the passion, spirit, and love of Gipsy Kings music.” |
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