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Bahrain will soon be swinging to the sounds of The Gypsy Kings, my musical informant tells me.
There’s been some great acts of late visiting our shores and I can confidently tell lovers of live music to get ready for a wave of top international acts visiting in the weeks and months ahead.
The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier in the south of France who perform in Spanish as their parents were mostly gitanos – Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War.
They are known for bringing rumba catalana, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco music, to worldwide audiences. Their music has been described as a place where ‘Spanish flamenco and Romani rhapsody meet salsa funk’.
