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Biography. Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. [ 2] Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn 's Piano Concerto in C major. When the Croatian war of independence started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies.
Saint Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kâli ("Sara the Black"; Romani: Sara e Kali ), is the patron saint of the Romani people. The center of her veneration is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in Southern France. Legend identifies her as the servant of one of the Three Marys, with whom she is supposed to ...
Romani people. The Romani people, also referred to as Roma, Sinti, or Kale, depending on the subgroup, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that primarily lives in Europe. The Romani may have migrated from what is the modern Indian state of Rajasthan, [ 1] migrating to the northwest (the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent) around 250 BC. [ 1]
The boom of Romani music in the last decades of the 18th century was triggered by the Hungarian nationalist movement. New genres started to evolve in music, and dance. Romani bands performed in more places, such as parks, promenades. Patronized by aristocrats, Romani musicians started to learn more about Viennese classicism and European musical ...
This is a table of Romani people by country. The list does include the Dom people, who are often subsumed under "gypsies".. The official number of Romani people is disputed in many countries; some do not collect data by ethnicity; in others, Romani individuals may refuse to register their ethnic identity for fear of discrimination, [17] or have assimilated and do not identify exclusively as ...
e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [ 1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [ 2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...
Romani diaspora by country. WikiProject. v. t. e. Roma, traditionally Țigani (often called "Gypsies" though this term is typically considered a slur), constitute one of Romania 's largest minorities. According to the 2011 census, their number was 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in ...
Ioana Grațiela Brâncuși was born in Timișoara, Romania, on 23 July 1989. She is the great-grand-niece of Constantin Brâncuși. [ 2] Brancuși was raised by her mother after her parents' divorce. Her sister is eleven years older than she is. Brancuși is Romani on her father's side. [ 3] She moved to Los Angeles. [ 4]