Where, exactly, do the GK live?
The Gipsy Kings hail from Provence, in the south of France. The Reyes brothers live in and around Arles, with their families. The Baliardos live in Montpelier. • What type of guitars/drums/keyboards do the GK use? Right now, the Gipsy Kings use Còrdoba guitars. • How do they manage to clap so fast? The rhythmic clapping is a technique called palmas. One clapper claps on the beat, the other on the off-beat. Thus, together, they can clap twice as fast as either could alone. The technique is very difficult to learn, but one way to learn is for the partners to face one another, one person to clap up-and-down, the other side-to-side, in such a way that they have to get out of each other’s way. The Gipsy Kings manage to do it without this aide. Probably some of them always calp on-beat and some of them always clap off-beat. • How well do Gipsy Kings albums sell? The Gipsy Kings are the most popular World Music group. They have sold over 13 million albums worldwide, including over 3 million i
