See also Django

Django

-Music:* Django Bates , British musician and composer* Django Haskins, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist* King Django, American Reggae artist* Django Reinhardt , Belgian Romani jazz guitarist...

 for other concepts with a similar name.

Dyango, born José Gómez Romero on March 5, 1940 in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, is a Spanish

Spain

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 musician. While he was born in Barcelona, capital of La Cataluña, he is not a Catalán, but rather, of Castilian or "Castellano" ancestry.

He was born on March 5, but his father filed the birth on May 8, the date that appears on his official records.

He named himself after the Romani (Gypsy) guitarist Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...

. Two of his sons, Marcos Llunas

Marcos Llunas

Marcos Gómez Llunas is a Spanish singer-songwriter who has been successful in southern Europe and Latin America and is known for his participation in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest....

 and Jordi, are also singers, though the first one is currently retired.

José Gómez Romero, Dyango, was formed musically at the Conservatorio de Música de Barcelona and toured Europe for two years performing different types of music. He decided to expand his voice as a solo artist and debuted at El Festival de la Canción del Duero (1965).

After a brief stint with Zafiro, in 1974, Dyango signed a music contract with EMI. His first album was recorded in 1975.

Since then, his repertoire has included "boleros" (romantic Spanish music), "tangos" (Argentinian music) and "rancheras" (Mexican music), remakes of songs from the 60's, dozens of his own songs, even lyrical pieces. In his career, he has recorded duets with the following artists: Celia Cruz, Oscar D'León, Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

, Roberto Goyeneche, Pimpinela and the tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

Jaume Aragall.

Dyango has obtained in his career 55 gold records and 40 platinum, which have been awarded in Spain as well as other Latin American countries, as well as the USA. Amongst them 'A corazón Abierto' has received double platinum status.

Currently, Dyango is immersed with taking on new forms of expressions of his career, like painting.

Dyango suffered a heart attack and has been admitted in a Barcelona hospital until March 5, 2009.

External links

• Official website
• [ Dyango] at Allmusic