The Gipsy Kings feat. Nicolas Reyes

Release date

01 January 1970

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Nicolas Reyes has been the leader and co-founder of the Gipsy Kings for well over 30 years. In the past three
decades, they have dominated the World Music charts and sold more than 14 million albums worldwide. Their
platinum compilation, The Best of the Gipsy Kings, was charting for over a year upon its release and their ninth
studio album, Savor Flamenco, was awarded the Grammy for Best World Music Album in 2013.

This iconic legacy began when Nicolas’ father, Jose Reyes, formed a celebrated flamenco duo with Manitas de Plata
(which boasted fans as famed as Miles Davis and Pablo Picasso). When the pair parted ways, the elder Reyes
became even more popular upon starting his own band, backed by his son, called Los Reyes. In later years, Nicolas
headed out on his own and began playing in the town of Arles in the south of France. He traveled throughout the
country, busking on the streets of Saint-Tropez, playing wherever he could. Having adopted the perpetual motion
of the gypsy lifestyle, his band eventually translated “Los Reyes” and became the Gipsy Kings.

The band’s music went on to fuse with popular culture. In addition to the accolades above, the traveling Gipsy
Kings have played some of the world’s greatest stages, from the Hollywood Bowl to Royal Albert Hall as well as
hitting the big screen. Their rendition of “Hotel California” was included in the film The Big Lebowski and the HBO
series Entourage. The 2010 film Toy Story 3 featured a Gipsy Kings version of the movie’s popular, Randy Newman-
penned theme, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”. The Gipsy Kings recently featured in a Big Lebowski spinoff The Jesus
Rolls with Reyes appearing in person with the director and star, John Turturro, for some of the promotion.

As active as this remarkable collective remains, they are also confident in the future of their legacy. “Even though
it’s been 30 years, we want to keep on making new music because it’s our life. It’s who we are,” says Nicolas Reyes.
“But I think there will be a time when we pass down the Gipsy Kings to our sons”.

30 years is an eternity in pop music but the story of the Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes has the depth to
endure. Theirs is a music that extends through generations, to the sounds of their ancestors—Spanish Romani
people who fled the Catalonia region during the Spanish Civil War—and reflects the vibrantly eclectic and
peripatetic history of the gitanos.