Gipsy Kings announce Dublin show with Nicolas Reyes

The Gipsy Kings, featuring Nicolas Reyes, have announced a show in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre for March 18th, 2024.

Backed by 30 years of music making and performing experience, the group 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.

The Catalan flamenco band boast hits such as ‘Bamboléo’, their C. Tangana collaboration ‘Ingobernable’ and their historical Spanish cover of Randy Newman's 'You've Got A Friend In Me' from Pixar’s Toy Story 3.

Nicolas Reyes was inspired by his father, Jose Reyes. The elder of the two formed a celebrated flamenco duo with Manitas de Plata and boasted fans as famous as Miles Davis and Pablo Picasso. Eventually parting ways, Nicolas' father started his own band backed by his son under the name 'Los Reyes'.

Later in life Nicolas would go on to travel solo in the town of Arles in the south of France. He travelled 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 sound became fused with pop culture and they progressed as a unit to play world-famous stages such as Hollywood Bowl and Royal Albert Hall, as well as having multiple songs featured in blockbuster films. 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.

"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," said Nicolas Reyes, displaying his confidence in the band's legacy. "But I think there will be a time when we pass down the Gipsy Kings to our sons".

The commended group have created 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.

Tickets on sale Friday for the fully seated show, from €71.95.