Members of the Gipsy Kings have been delighting audiences with their passionate music since the sixties, initially operating in the Southern French village of Arles. The Gipsy Kings are a group from Arles and Montpellier in France. Their ancestors fled from Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War. They are Calé (gypsy) musicians, best known for bringing Rumba Catalana, a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music to mainstream audiences, a kind of Rumba Flamenca. They became popular with their album, self titled Gipsy Kings, which included the songs "Djobi Djoba", "Bamboleo" and "Un Amor". The song "Volare" on their second album Mosaique is a rumba version of Domenico Modugno's Italian hit "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu". The Gipsy Kings were enormously throughout Europe, especially France and England, despite harsh criticism from flamenco purists. In 1989, Gipsy Kings was released in the US and it spent 40 weeks on the charts, one of very few Spanish language albums to do so. Their cover version of 'Hotel California' is an excellent example of fast classical guitar leads and flamenco strumming (This version was featured in the Coen Brother's movie The Big Lebowski). The Gipsy Kings are members of two related families: the Reyes and the Baliardos (Reyes means Kings in Spanish). They are cousins of the flamenco great Manitas de Plata.

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