"PICASSO"
Music composed in tribute to two great artists, two men who touched the lives of Nino the true colors of freedom and that will never end this music to inspire and above all, his singing. To his father, Hippolyte, king of the Rumba Catalan to the public, absolute ruler of the child he was and the man he became. A Picasso, too, his spiritual father the most flamboyant. They dedicate this eternal music does not belong and who brings them closer to him. For him the end of an era, the beginning of another, that of renewed faith and that he wanted to express through music more authentic, more colorful gypsy soul. By this marriage between the energy of romantic guitars and violin, he celebrates the memory of Hippolytus and Pablo who hear his song, for sure, as formerly under the sun of Provence.
Baliardo's legend
Baliardo, a name that represents the finest line of artists
gypys. A dynasty made famous by two men who have marked the history
of the gypsy people. Ricardo Baliardo, better known by the name of
Manitas
de plata
and his
brother Hippolyte
, nicknamed the "king of the rumba catalana" for having
popularized the Rumba in France. The group they formed debut with their
cousin José
Réyès,
,
Ondo singer, and Manero
,
singer and
guitarist, whose name was LOS
BALIARDOS
Hippolyte was the
natural leader as lead singer. But these four characters, Manitas was
more concerned with his image, the more conscious of his own staging
and it is through him that the group was spotted by photographer Lucien Clergue
, a native of Arles and Pablo
Picasso's
friend
. Thus they set out to
conquer the monde
in
the early sixties with their luggage for all music and what fiery
temperament that is the gypsy soul. They soon became friends everything
that the world population of stars
and
princes,
traveling from triumph to triumph over the most prestigious venues on
every continent. It amazing ascent to the two brothers born in a
caravan in Sète, who could neither read nor write and who were the
first to represent the people at the annual Gypsy of the ONU in New-York
, celebrating this occasion the declaration of
human rights in the presence of their "brother Catalan" Salvador Dali
had wanted to be present. They thus became
the ambassadors of the Gypsy community in Europe around the world. The
fate of two brothers and their cousin Baliardo Jose Reyes finds its
continuation in the story that their son wrote later with the creation
of the Gipsy
Kings
.
Nino Baliardo
The old saying of him that his first cry was a song.
At the age of nine, he recorded his
first album for CBS
by the nickname
Nino de
Suerte.
.
The child prodigy who accompanied his uncle on his records and Manitas
in his world tours, will be sought by the greatest flamenco: Camaron
de la isla
,Paco de
Lucia 
,Principé ritano
...
He was recently chosen to record with the popular El Nour, a disc
tribute to the great singer
Rafael Farina
.
His youth was marked by his encounter with the Master Pablo Picasso and
his stay in any one
was at his house in Provence where the artist liked to hear hir sing
while working in his studio.
Founder of the Gipsy Kings with his cousin Nicolas Reyès 
in the '80s,
he composed the album
Allégria 
in which we see her warm and powerful voice who plays DJOBI
DJOBA
which is the main composer and become worldwide hit. Nicknamed
"Hurricane El Nino", he created the Armadillo
group
to express his
desire indomitable freedom.
He like his brothers are heirs to a history that began as a novel, a
story of men with Nino singing legend today.
