at Cowlitz Ballroom
Saturday, August 3rd 2024
8:00pm
With Ginger Winn
Tickets: $48 & $68 | On-sale: Now
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 flm The Big Lebowski and the HBO series Entourage. The 2010 flm 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 confdent 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.
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Ginger Winn is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer from South Carolina. She released her debut album Stop-Motion on June 7, 2024, which was produced entirely by David Baron at his Sun Mountain Studio in Boiceville, NY. David, who has produced for Lenny Kravitz, the Lumineers, Shawn Mendes, and countless others, calls Ginger “a rare diamond” whose “style and songs are diverse… unified by her personality which is both approachable and a bit mysterious.” On Ginger’s debut album, she skates across a mesmerizing menagerie of melodies, textures, and themes that meld together to create an enchanted carousel ride for the listener. The songs deal with love, loss, exploration, self-discovery, escape, and reconnection to one’s inner child. She manages to examine complex, sometimes heavy content while presenting it with a spoonful of sugar for the listener to digest it all. The myriad sounds and styles are bound together by the common thread of Ginger’s unique voice and deeply intimate connection to the listener. Ginger has dedicated her life to music since the age of 9. She did not attend or complete high school after the age of 16. She could not imagine doing anything with her life other than making music, so she didn’t bother. A little over 2 years ago, Ginger started working as a freelance singer and music producer online – taking on commissioned work assignments on websites like Upwork. She responded to a job posting by Tina Baione to make her song as a gift for her husband, Matthew, using an archive of his poetry. That song turned into the demo for her debut single “Super 8.” When Matthew heard it, he told Ginger they should make an album together. That album became Stop-Motion.
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