Gipsy Kings Featuring Tonino Baliardo Unveil New Single, “Historia”

Twenty-five million album sales, a GRAMMY® Award, sellout tours across the globe and a legendary Glastonbury 2024 performance: the Gipsy Kings and their founder Tonino Baliardo have come a long way since they started out playing the streets, weddings and bars of their native Arles, France in 1979. Continuing to keep the rich, passionate, virtuosic traditions of flamenco music and Catalan gipsy culture alive, the Gipsy Kings, featuring Tonino Baliardo, now share the new single “Historia.” It is the title track to their new album, which follows on May 15th via Cooking Vinyl.

The irrepressible “Historia” is full of the hallmarks that have made Gipsy Kings a longstanding international success: the sheer joy, rambunctious rhythms, fervent atmosphere that made the likes of “Bamboléo” and “Djobi, Djoba” so memorable; impassioned vocals; jazzy piano flourishes and, naturally, Tonino Baliardo’s famous and inimitable guitar style. It’s a song which represents a cocktail of all the many genres and global sounds that have inspired the band’s journey – its title is also representative of the new album’s direction.

Tonino says:

“I have always wanted to record an album where the music that has influenced my life as a Gipsy is reflected. My music has no borders, and our music is universal. I came up with the title ‘Historia’ because it means what has happened in the past, and I wanted to create an album with all the different musical influences I have experienced over the years, travelling and performing around the world. The tracks on Historia cross over from rhumba, pop, dance jazz, and of course have the passion, spirit, and love of Gipsy Kings music.”

Flamenco is inherently a genre based within the roots of family, and that’s particularly true of the rest of the upcoming Historia album. Tonino’s two sons, Cosso and Mikael, helped him write and record various tracks and ideas, while his young grandson Milan came up with the title for the song “Big Bang.” Another track, “Cielo,” is dedicated to the memory of his dear brother Paco, one of the original Gipsy Kings, who passed away during recording. The album was launched with its lead single “Señorita.”

The band’s official store offers a CD, a sand-colored vinyl, and a limited-edition blue-and-white cloud pattern vinyl. All album bundles from the official store also add a signed 12” print.

Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo commence the “Historia Tour” in North America next month, before promising the hottest fiesta of the year with a live, raw and up-close intimate tour across Germany and Switzerland in May. Further international dates follow throughout the rest of the year. Their current tour schedule is below, and remaining tickets are available HERE.

Gipsy Kings ft. Tonino ‘Historia’ album artwork

Tour Dates:

03/14 – El Cajon, CA – Heritage Event Center at Sycuan Casino
03/15 – Oxnard, CA – The Canyon at Oxnard Performing Arts Center
03/18 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts
03/19 – Oakland, CA – Calvin Simmons Theatre at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts
03/20 – Newport Beach, CA – The Lido Theater
03/21 – Newport Beach, CA – The Lido Theater
03/22 – Tucson, AZ – Fox Tucson Theatre
03/25 – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
03/26 – Groton, MA – Groton Hill Music Center
03/27 – Waterville, ME – Waterville Opera House
03/28 – Concord, NH – Capital Center For The Arts
03/29 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center For The Arts
05/15 – Berlin, Astra Kulturhaus
05/16 – Hamburg, Georg Elser Halle
05/17 – Braunschweig, Schön & Frölich
05/19 – Dortmund, FZW Dortmund
05/22 – Düsseldorf, Stahlwerk Düsseldorf
05/23 – Mainz, Halle 5
05/24 – Stuttgart, LKA Longhorn
05/25 – Saarbrücken, Garage Saarbrücken
05/27 – Nuremberg, Hirsch Nürnberg
05/29 – Munich, Backstage Werk
05/30 – Zürich, Komplex 457
05/31 – Bern, Bierhubeli
06/18 – Oslo, OverOslo Festival
06/19 – Langesund, Wrightegaarden
08/30 – Timisoara, Corfu Festival
09/18 – Istanbul, Harbiye Cemil
10/10 – Warsaw, Roztańczony PGE Narodowy
10/24 – Strasbourg, Palais Des Congrès