DJANGO REINHARDT
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Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist.
Born Jean Reinhardt in Liberchies, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake". He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age, and professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.
At the age of eighteen, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper; consequently their home was full of this highly inflammable material. Returning from a performance late one night,
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Django
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1957
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Nuages
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1997
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2005
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