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Of gypsy ethnicity, daughter of flamenco artists, her father was the guitarist Juan Gilabert and her mother the singer Rosa Vargas Fernández, known as Rosa la Papera. She was born in Calle de la Botica, in the Santa María district (Cadiz). [1] In 1960 she made her debut in the Zambra tablao in Madrid.
Lolita Flores (1958) – Spanish singer and actress; Los Niños de Sara – French (Spanish origin, Iberian Kale) rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players; Manitas de Plata (born 1921) – Spanish guitarist; Manolis Angelopoulos – Greek singer; Marianne Rosenberg (born 1955) – German singer-songwriter; daughter of German Gypsy who ...
Manitas de Plata was the uncle of Diego, Paco, and Tonino Baliardo, and cousin to Pablo, François (Canut), Patchaï, Nicolas, and André Reyes (the sons of his cousin, flamenco artist José Reyes, with whom he performed as a duo in the 1970s), all current or former members of the Catalan rumba band Gipsy Kings.
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater is an American Spanish-dance company in residence at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Ensemble Español consists of the professional dance company, touring nationally and internationally throughout the year, as well as the youth company.
This article is about Spanish Gypsies who identify themselves as "gitanos", forming a distinct cultural/ethnic group. They do not identify themselves as "Romani", and indeed often view themselves as distinct from Eastern European roma people (the Spanish Gypsies having formed an integral part of Andalusian culture since the reconquista).
The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano [10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians from Gypsies.
Romani dance in Slovenia. This is a list of dances of the Romani people.. Among the many styles of Gypsy dance, the most famous is the flamenco dance, the traditional dance from Andalusia in Southern Spain.
In flamenco, zapateado also refers to a style of dancing which accents the percussive effect of the footwork (zapatear is a Spanish verb, and zapato means "shoe"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the footwork of particular zapateado , "the dancer and the guitarists work together in unison, building from simple foot taps and bell-like guitar tones to rapid and ...