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Orchestra years — all listed families.
1711–72 (?)
New orchestra
An early named woman of the professional Hungarian Romani orchestra
Czinka Panna’s orchestra
MEK: Romani violinist; one of the popular bands of her time, Kingdom of Hungary. Sárosi: “the first Hungarian Gypsy primás in the modern sense”; earliest known “classical” Hungarian Gypsy-band instrumentation (violin, kontra, cimbalom, bass) — before the café dynasties.
c. 1800
New orchestra
The named ancestor
Bihari’s orchestra
János Bihari (1764–1827), verbunkos primás. The Lakatos families claim this line.
c. 1801
New orchestra
Usually five — cimbalom and strings
Bihari’s Pest band
Lexicon: around 1801 he came to Pest and formed the band that made him famous, usually five players.
1824
Band ends
Left arm broken — primás chair given up
Bihari’s Pest band
Lexicon: accident, left arm broken. Virtuoso career ended. He still played, but had to let another take the primás.
c. 1900
New orchestra
The father’s kapelle
Zigeunerkapelle Weiss
Johann / Franz Weiss’s orchestra in Germany. Court playing; a “royal” predicate from Baden and Wilhelm II before the First World War.
c. 1910
New orchestra
The father’s Hungarian kapelle
József Veres orchestra
József Veres, violin, own orchestra. Julianna sings. István Lajos grows up in that band.
1912
New orchestra
Toque beside cante
Ramón Montoya with Antonio Chacón
More than a decade. Forms of the cantes take their public shape.
c. 1913
Generation joins
Gregor in the father’s band
Andrei Serban orchestra
Cimbalom: Andrei. Violin: the child Gregor, from about four, in the band by seven. Brăila.
1916
New orchestra
Russia, including the court
Andrei Serban orchestra
The family orchestra on the road. Played for Tsar Nicholas II.
1916
New orchestra
Own band in Pest
Magyari Imre orchestra
Lexicon: moved to Budapest in 1916 and formed his own orchestra. NORI: Royal Szálló, then from 1920 the Hungária Szálló until 1940.
c. 1919
New orchestra
Joseph founds his own
Joseph Weiss orchestra
After the war Joseph (Judo) leaves the father’s seating: four violins, no cimbalom, himself often on bass.
1910s–50s
New orchestra
Cante on the gramophone
La Niña de los Peines
Seville Gitana voice. The old palos, recorded.
1920
New generation leads
The Hungária chair
Hungária Szálló
From 1920 until 27 April 1940 he played the Hungária Szálló restaurant. Magyar Rádió from 1925.
1922
Generation joins
Granada concurso
Concurso de Cante Jondo
Montoya and Chacón at the Concurso. Guitar stepping toward the concert stand.
1 May 1931
New orchestra
Prinsessepaviljoen, Scheveningen
Serban in the Netherlands
Dutch contract. Then the pattern: Kurhaus in summer, Hotel de l’Europe in winter.
1931
New generation leads
Lajos as primás — new generation
Ostende café orchestra, Budapest
At nineteen István Lajos Sárközi leads a café orchestra at the Ostende. Stage name: Lajos Veres.
1931
Generation joins
Leader at eleven
Budapest Rajkó
Népművészet Mesterei: from autumn 1931 a leader in the Budapest Rajkó orchestra. England, Germany, France.
1932
Generation joins
Leading primás as a child
Aranyos Rajkó
Magyar életrajzi lexikon: from 1932 a leading primás of the Aranyos Rajkó orchestra.
1934
New orchestra
Django and Grappelli
Quintette du Hot Club de France
The records that named gypsy jazz. Manouche guitar, Paris jazz, pompe.
1930s–60s
New orchestra
Baile gitano on world stages
Carmen Amaya company
Barcelona Gitana dance as the public image of flamenco.
1935
New orchestra
Six men to Rotterdam
Lajos Veres and His Gipsy Orchestra
A touring restaurant orchestra for Dutch rooms. Not a split from József so much as the son’s own contract.
1935
New generation leads
Andrei dies on the stand — Gregor leads
Gregor Serban orchestra
Brain haemorrhage at the l’Europe. New generation takes the primás chair. Colea later on piano.
1937
New generation leads
The Netherlands
Weiss / Mirando
The family flees Germany. The same restaurant book, new rooms.
1938
New orchestra
Own band
Toki Horváth orchestra
Own orchestra from 1938. First leading soloist of the Capital Folk Orchestra from 15 December 1950.
1939
New generation leads
Settles in the Netherlands
Lajos Veres orchestra
The band stays. Fourteen albums follow. Sárközi Márkus sits second violin on Dutch broadcasts.
1940
c. 1942
Rename
Circus cover
Zwarte Raven
Under Toni Boltini as the Zwarte Raven — survival, not a style change.
c. 1942
Rename
Wartime name
Şerbănescu
The resistance changes Serban to Şerbănescu. Same band, hidden papers.
c. 1946
New orchestra
Father and seven sons
Tata Mirando en zijn zeven zonen
Post-war public name. Morschy, Roma, Moro, Lupa, Krishan, Adolf, Nello on the stand with Joseph.
1947
New orchestra
Own band
id. Járóka Sándor ensemble
Own ensemble from 1947. Interior Ministry artists’ folk orchestra from 1952. Fortuna étterem from 1958.
1949
New orchestra
Co-founder, then concertmaster
SĽUK
Slovak Folk Art Collective, 1949. Concertmaster for 32 years, until 1981. Not a Budapest restaurant chair.
1950
New generation leads
Kodály backs the chair
Magyar Állami Népi Együttes
Leading primás of MÁNE. Magyar Rádió folk orchestra from 1958. Halászbástya 1972; Margitkert from 1981.
1950
mid-20th c.
New orchestra
Uncle Sándor’s restaurant band
Sándor Lakatos orchestra
The famous mid-century Lakatos primás. A Budapest café orchestra under his name.
1951
Generation joins
Began to sing beside her father
With Dumitru Luncă
Digi24: she began to sing in 1951 with her father.
1953
Band ends
Django dies
Django’s groups
The family style continues in other Reinhardt and Sinti hands.
mid-20th c.
New orchestra
Father Antal’s band
Antal Lakatos café orchestra
Parallel chair in the same city. Roby grows up in this seating, not in a jam.
1956
Band ends
Does not return
Toki Horváth orchestra (Hungary)
Western European tour. Lived in Munich until 1971.
1957
Split — new band
First split — Loeila
Loeila Magyara
Brother Loeila founds Loeila Magyara, from 1957 with Roma Heina. Joseph’s Tata Mirando still plays.
1957
birth
Naat Veliov born
Kočani
Macedonian notices: Kočani, 25 May 1957. Grandfather Ahmet, trumpet.
1958
Band ends
Colea’s accident
Colea in the family orchestra
The brother’s piano chair is cut short. Gregor continues as Stehgeiger.
late 1950s
Generation joins
Dutch rooms and records
Tata Mirando
Kurhaus, radio, 78s with Monica Witkiewiczowna. The public name hardens.
1960s
New orchestra
German Sinti on stage again
Schnuckenack Reinhardt Quintett
A Reinhardt of another country rebuilds the music after the Porajmos.
20th c.
New orchestra
Father’s restaurant orchestra
Lajos Sárközi Sr. — Kárpátia
Lajos Sr. at the Kárpátia in Budapest. Seven-generation craft, one room.
1960s
New generation leads
Meissel takes the bass
Tata Mirando
Joseph plays less. Eldest son Meissel Weiss takes his chair while the father still lives.
1960s–2000s
1964
New orchestra
Granada to tablao
Pepe Habichuela in Madrid
Pepe leaves Granada for Madrid tablaos. Later records with Morente.
c. 1964
Generation joins
Gregor junior at the piano
Gregor Serban & zoon
Son joins. Thirty-three years beside his father — generation on the same stand, not a split.
c. 1960s
Generation joins
Ilonka sings with her father
Veres–Ilonka
Next generation on the same stand — a duo, not a second orchestra.
1967
Split — new band
Joseph dies — the family splits
Morschy Mirando / De zonen van Tata Mirando
Joseph dies 1 January 1967, Dieren. Morschy takes the Tata Mirando name. Meissel founds De zonen van Tata Mirando. Two brother bands, one family.
1967–70
Split — new band
Mariska leaves the restaurant book
Shocking Blue
Youngest daughter Mariska Veres founds another kind of group. Pop, not csárdás. The father’s orchestra continues without her.
1968
Generation joins
Marriage — voice and accordion
Teodosievski ensemble
Guardian: she married Stevo Teodosievski in 1968, after he asked her father to let her join the ensemble.
1969
New orchestra
Kaale song on a political stage
Hortto Kaalo
Formed 1969. FMQ: 1960s visibility and a fight for better social conditions, not restaurant music.
1969–92
New orchestra
Cante remade, palos kept
Camarón with Paco de Lucía
San Fernando Gitano. The measure of late-century singing.
1970
New orchestra
Meissel’s sons on a festival stage
De zonen van Tata Mirando
De zonen van Tata Mirando play Stamping Ground. The split is now a touring fact.
1973
New generation leads
Morschy passes the Tata name to Kokalo
Tata Mirando / Roma Mirando
DjangoBooks forum, Barengero, 2005: as early as 1973 Morschy passed the Tata name to his brother Kokalo (Adolf). Filed as that post, not a contract.
1973
New orchestra
Own band after the Academy
ifj. Sánta Ferenc folk orchestra
Liszt Academy diplomas 1969. First own folk orchestra 1973. Hilton 1979–81; Átrium Hyatt Tokaj 1981–90.
1970s–
New orchestra
Kardzhali clarinet
Ivo Papazov wedding band / Trakiya
Bulgarian Romani wedding school, jazz-aware, still for the dance.
c. 1974
Generation joins
Roby, nine, first violin
Antal Lakatos orchestra
Next generation joins the father’s café band as primás in front of the orchestra.
1960s–80s
Split — new band
Another Lakatos orchestra
Sándor Déki Lakatos and his Gypsy Band
The Déki line records the restaurant book (Hungaroton). Same surname, separate band — not Roby’s chair.
1976
Rename
Honorary titles in Chandigarh
Esma and Stevo
Guardian: in 1976, performing in Chandigarh, India, honorary titles Queen and King of Gypsy Music — the Guardian’s wording.
1970s
New orchestra
Rumba catalana, world radio
Gipsy Kings
Gitane families of Arles and Montpellier. Related to flamenco, not cante jondo.
1978
New orchestra
End of August, Nagyecsed–Budapest
Kalyi Jag
Kultura.hu, 2008: formed at the end of August 1978 from Szatmár Roma youth commuting between Nagyecsed and Budapest.
c. 1978
New orchestra
Alsace prodigy on the stand
Biréli Lagrène groups
Child of the Manouche right hand around Saverne. Family language first, then fusion and post-bop.
1980s
Split — new band
The cousins take the family on the road
Ketama
Josemi with Juan El Camborio and Antonio Carmona. Nuevo flamenco from the Habichuela line.
1981
Band ends
The primás dies
Lajos Veres orchestra
Lajos Veres dies. Cremated in The Hague. No son took the restaurant chair. The name on Dutch sleeves stops here.
c. 1980s
Split — new band
A Sárközi chair in the Rajkó
Rajkó — József Sárközi
József Sárközi, lead violin of the Rajkó Orchestra (Vonópárbaj prize 1984). Same surname, a youth/state orchestra, not the Kárpátia band.
c. 1984
Split — new band
Roby leaves for Belgium
Roby Lakatos Ensemble
At about nineteen, first prize in hand, he leaves the Budapest café and founds his own group: Liège, then Brussels.
1980s–2014
New orchestra
Thracian clarinet
Selim Sesler ensembles
Roman oyun havası, 9/8, tavern and wedding.
1985
New orchestra
Tribute orchestra
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Founded as a tribute to the late Sándor Járóka Sr., “King of the Prímás.” Debut, Budapest Spring Festival, 1986.
1985
New generation leads
Főprímás of the new symphony
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Alelnök and főprímás from the founding. Stepped down 1998 for health; kept as honorary perpetual főprímás.
1985
Generation joins
From the founding year
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Member since 1985. Father had been Rajkó főprímás.
1985
Generation joins
Founding member
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Named as a founding member of the tribute orchestra.
1986–96
New orchestra
Ten years, Brussels
Roby Lakatos Ensemble — Les Ateliers
House band at Les Ateliers de la Grande Île. Yehudi Menuhin in the room. A concert ensemble, not a restaurant kapelle.
late 20th c.
New orchestra
Seven-string kept
Kolpakov Trio
Family teaching of Russian Romani guitar when the six-string had almost won.
1989
New orchestra
Stochelo, Nous’che, Nonnie
Rosenberg Trio
Dutch Sinti family band. The late-century standard for hot-club guitar.
1989
New orchestra
Clejani on a world stage
Taraf de Haïdouks
Village lăutari, already a wedding taraf, now a festival name.
1990
New orchestra
New ensemble, old tabor
Loyko
Russian Romani violin and song after the Soviet years.
1990
New generation leads
Leading primás
Rajkó Orchestra
Rajkó method from 1978 (Farkas, then Mészáros). Leading primás of Rajkó from 1990.
1991–92
New generation leads
Adolf after Morschy
Tata Mirando
Morschy dies. Adolf Kokalo Weiss takes the Tata Mirando orchestra. Meissel’s band continues beside it.
1993
Band ends
Left the stage for Pentecostal services
Urban lăutărească stage
Digi24: from 1993 she sang only at Pentecostal services in Bucharest.
1990s
New orchestra
Public festival name
Kočani Orkestar
Wedding brass from the town, then a European festival name. English Wikipedia prints 1994. Family memory of the 1930s also stands.
1994
Split — new band
Court — who is Tata Mirando?
Tata Mirando (name)
Brother quarrel over the name goes to a Dutch court. Two orchestras had long tolerated each other. The name was the fight.
1994
New generation leads
Artistic director
Magyar Nemzeti Cigányzenekar
Fidelio and kultura.hu: formed 1994, about eighty players. He was artistic director and leading primás. A 1988 founding year is listed under Later.
1995–2005
New orchestra
Rom-pop
Věra Bílá & Kale
Czech-Slovak Romani-language songs on a public stage; Kale continued after the 2005 split without her.
c. 1990s
Generation joins
Lajos Jr. as auxiliary primás
Kárpátia — Sárközi
Son stands beside the father. Generation joins before it splits.
1996
Split — new band
Roma Heina’s royal orchestra
Koninklijk Zigeunerorkest Roma Mirando
A further band under the royal predicate, led from the Roma Heina line. Meissel dies this year.
1996
New orchestra
Henry Ernst in the village
Fanfare Ciocărlia
Songlines 2021 and Kennedy Center: German sound engineer Henry Ernst came to Zece Prăjini in 1996. The public name Fanfare Ciocărlia — brass band, lark.
1997
New generation leads
Father dies — the son keeps the orchestra
Roemeens Zigeunerorkest Gregor Serban
Gregor dies Delft, 12 December 1997. Gregor junior continues the family band.
1998
New generation leads
Title passed to Lendvai
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
At the Pesti Vigadó he granted Lendvai Csócsi József the title of Chief Primás — the orchestra’s own wording.
1998
New generation leads
Chief Primás
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Title granted by Boross Lajos at the Pesti Vigadó. Vice-president from 12 December 2005.
2001
New orchestra
Gipsy Band
Paulus Schäfer Gipsy Band
Sendelo Schäfer on rhythm. Debut Into the Light, 2002. Living circuit: Gypsy Jazz Hub.
2002
Rename
The name Serban restored
Gregor Serban & Familie
Junior puts Serban back on the stand, as his father wished. Andrei Şerbănescu, the other son, keeps the wartime surname and his own violin chair.
2004
New orchestra
Crammed debut
Mahala Rai Banda
Bucharest band. Self-titled album recorded 2004, Crammed Discs 2005. Not merged with Clejani.
2005
New orchestra
Own orchestra in Budapest
Johan János zenekara
First-person: founded in 2005 from excellent musicians of Budapest.
c. 2000s
Split — new band
The son founds his own orchestra
Lajos Sárközi Jr. and his Band
New generation band: Jr. first violin, Sr. second, Rudolf Sárközi bass, Gyula Bóni viola, Gyula Csík cimbalom.
2004–08
New generation leads
Nello as primás
Koninklijk Zigeunerorkest Tata Mirando
Nello on guitar and later as public primás of the royal Tata Mirando. Dies Arnhem, 12 June 2008. Grandsons keep more than one orchestra.
2009
2010
New generation leads
Concertmaster
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Concertmaster and primás from 2010. Elected president in 2023.
c. 2010
New generation leads
Déki’s son takes the restaurant line
Sándor Déki Lakatos Jr. band
New generation of the Déki orchestra. Budapest chairs continue while Roby is still based in Brussels.
2011
New orchestra
Evenings at the Hundred-Year Restaurant
Sárközi at the Százéves Étterem
Jr.’s orchestra takes the oldest restaurant in Budapest as its room. Classic sets, every night.
2012–25
New generation leads
Leading primás
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
First-person: leading primás of the 100 Member orchestra, 2012 to 2025.
2015
New generation leads
Chief primás of the Gypsy Philharmonic
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
The musicians elect Lajos Jr. artistic director and chief primás. A large orchestra chair on top of the family band.
2010s
Generation joins
József Sárközi (b. 1990)
Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra
Next generation of the Rajkó Sárközi line on a symphony stand.
c. 2018
New generation leads
Return to Budapest
Roby Lakatos Ensemble
After about thirty-four years in Belgium, Roby is based in Budapest again. Ensemble with László Bóni and younger classically trained players.
2023
Band ends
Skopje
Mustafov
Songlines: died 22 May 2023, hospital in Skopje, after a stroke. Aged 72.
2025
New generation leads
Adolf Kokalo Weiss dies
Koninklijk Zigeunerorkest Roma Mirando
NOS, 1 October 2025: Adolf Kokalo Weiss, called Tata Mirando, died of heart failure at 92. Adopted son Romano Weiss announced it. Orchestra name on that notice: Roma Mirando.
2026
Band ends
Pepe dies in Madrid
Pepe Habichuela
4 August 2026. The toque family continues in Josemi and the cousins.
2026
New generation leads
Johan János takes the stand
Magyar Nemzeti Cigányzenekar
Orchestra team page: főprímás and artistic director from 1 January 2026. Named successor, not filed as Sánta kin.
2026
New generation leads
Főprímás and artistic director
Magyar Nemzeti Cigányzenekar
First-person: from 2026. Józsefváros: re-formed under him; 1 April 2026, Hagyományok Háza. Founding year of that orchestra is listed under Later (1988 / 1994).
Weiss / Tata Mirando
Sinti — Switzerland / Germany → Netherlands
Holland–Hungary restaurant violin · Netherlands
Joseph Weiss, called Tata Mirando — tata meaning father — led a Sinti family orchestra that played the Hungarian restaurant book in Dutch rooms. They fled the Nazis in 1937. The sons kept the name.
Veres (Sárközi)
Hungarian Roma → Rotterdam / The Hague
Holland–Hungary restaurant violin · Hungary
Lajos Veres was a stage name. He was born István Lajos Sárközi, 1912–1981, Hungarian Roma, son of a violinist and a singer. He brought a six-man band to Rotterdam in 1935. Fourteen albums. His daughter Mariska took another road.
Serban
Romanian Roma — Brăila → Scheveningen / Amsterdam / Delft
Holland–Hungary restaurant violin · Romania
Andrei Serban, cimbalom. His son Gregor (1909–1997), violin, the Dutch Stehgeiger. Brother Colea on piano. Sons Gregor junior (piano) and Andrei Şerbănescu (violin). Kurhaus in summer, Hotel de l’Europe in winter.
Lakatos
Hungarian Roma — Budapest (and Belgium, for a time)
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Seven generations of restaurant violin. The family names János Bihari as ancestor. Antal Lakatos (father of Roby), uncle Sándor, Roby Lakatos (b. 1965). Another public primás line: Sándor Déki Lakatos. Jazz piano: Béla Szakcsi Lakatos. Not one man. A name that means the café bow.
Sárközi / Sárközy
Hungarian Roma — Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Seven generations of musicians. Lajos Sárközi Jr. (first violin), Lajos Sárközi Sr. (second violin), Rudolf Sárközi (bass). József Sárközi of the Rajkó Orchestra. Classic csárdás sets in Budapest rooms such as the Százéves Étterem. Cousin-name to Veres’s birth name, István Lajos Sárközi.
Reinhardt
Manouche — Belgium / France; German Sinti kin
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · France
Jean “Django” Reinhardt made the public name of gypsy jazz. Schnuckenack Reinhardt, German Sinti of the same surname, rebuilt the music on German stages after the Porajmos. Kinship, not one household.
Rosenberg
Sinti — Netherlands
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · Netherlands
The Dutch Sinti guitar family of the late twentieth century. Stochelo, Nous’che and Nonnie — a family band that became the standard for hot-club playing. Neighbours of Schäfer and Basily. A different line from the restaurant Mirando Weiss family.
Lagrène
Manouche — Alsace, France
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · France
Alsatian Manouche guitar. Biréli absorbed Django young, then walked into fusion and post-bop without dropping the family right hand.
Schäfer
Sinti — Netherlands
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · Netherlands
Dutch Sinti guitar line, kin to Rosenberg and Basily. Paulus Schäfer is a living player of that school. Dates and jams: Gypsy Jazz Hub.
Basily
Sinti — Netherlands
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · Netherlands
Dutch Sinti guitar family, neighbour to Rosenberg and Schäfer. Michael Dregni reviewed their record Swing for the Gipsies: four family chairs plus Martin Limberger and Sani van Mullem.
Limberger
Manouche / Sinti — Belgium (and the Dutch border)
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · France
Belgian Manouche violin and guitar family. Grandfather Piotto, father Vivi (Waso, with Fapy Lafertin), Tcha Limberger. Tcha’s own site is the source for that line.
Amaya
Calé / Gitano — Barcelona
Flamenco · Spain
Barcelona Gitana dance family. Carmen Amaya (1913–1963) made baile gitano a world image of flamenco.
Pavón
Calé / Gitano — Seville
Flamenco · Spain
Seville Gitana cante. Pastora Pavón recorded the old palos when the gramophone was new.
Montoya
Calé / Gitano — Madrid
Flamenco · Spain
Ramón Montoya made the flamenco guitar a solo voice. Gitano cattle-trading family in Madrid. Uncle of Carlos Montoya.
Habichuela / Carmona
Calé / Gitano — Granada
Flamenco · Spain
Granada Gitano dynasty. Habichuela el Viejo to Juan and Pepe, then Josemi and Ketama.
Monje Cruz
Calé / Gitano — San Fernando, Cádiz
Flamenco · Spain
José Monje Cruz, Camarón. Gitano cante from San Fernando. With Paco de Lucía he remade the public ear without leaving the palos.
Reyes / Baliardo
Gitane — Arles / Montpellier, southern France
Flamenco · France
Rumba catalana from Gitane families in the south of France. Sons and nephews of José Reyes. A popular Romani guitar music, related to flamenco rather than Andalusian cante jondo.
Clejani lăutari
Romanian Roma — Clejani, Wallachia
Lăutărească · Romania
Village lăutari of Clejani. The taraf that became Taraf de Haïdouks on a world stage. Wedding and listening music — doina, hora, baladă.
Zece Prăjini
Romanian Roma — Zece Prăjini, Moldavia
Lăutărească · Romania
Romani brass village in Moldavia. Fanfare Ciocărlia took that wedding brass abroad. Cousin to Balkan truba, not to the string taraf.
Teodosievski / Redžepova
Macedonian Roma — Skopje
Balkan Romani brass & wedding · North Macedonia
Esma Redžepova with Stevo Teodosievski’s ensemble. BBC: died in Skopje, 11 December 2016, aged 73, after a short illness — hospital and family. Guardian: born in Skopje’s old town in the war years; married Stevo in 1968.
Bajramović
Serbian Roma — Niš
Balkan Romani brass & wedding · Serbia
The great voice of Serbian Romani song. Šaban composed and sang in Romani and Serbian — urban, wounded, later sampled.
Papazov
Bulgarian Roma — Kardzhali
Balkan Romani brass & wedding · Bulgarian Roma
Ivo Papazov, clarinet of the Kardzhali wedding school: jazz-aware, still a dance musician.
Kočani
Macedonian Roma — Kočani
Balkan Romani brass & wedding · North Macedonia
Romani brass from Kočani. Naat Veliov, trumpet. Public name in the 1990s. Macedonian cousin of Guča and Zece Prăjini.
Kolpakov
Russian Roma — seven-string guitar line
Russian Romani romances · Russia
Keepers of the Russian Romani seven-string guitar. Family teaching. A line that nearly vanished when the Spanish six-string took over.
Loyko
Russian Roma — violin and guitar
Russian Romani romances · Russia
Russian Romani ensemble from 1990. Tabor song and violin virtuosity after the Soviet years.
Sesler
Turkish Roman — Thrace
Turkish Romani / Roman havası · Turkey
Thracian Romani clarinet. Selim Sesler (1957–2014) became a reference for Roman oyun havası and the tavern-wedding book.
Bílá / Kale
Czech / Slovak Roma
Vlax song & Central European families · Slovakia
Rom-pop from the Czech-Slovak lands. Věra Bílá took Romani-language song to a public stage with backbeat and guitar.
Czinka
Hungarian Roma — Kingdom of Hungary, eighteenth century
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Czinka Panna. An early named woman of the professional Hungarian Romani orchestra. MEK (Magyar életrajzi lexikon) gives Sajógömör, 1711, and 1772 for her death, with a question mark.
Ferret
Manouche — Paris
Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche · France
Paris Manouche guitar family. Baro, Sarane and Matelo Ferret, as named in Dregni and on the gypsy-jazz chapter. The Limberger–Lafertin chair is another line. Kinship with Fapy is listed under Later.
Puceanu
Romanian Roma — Bucharest, urban lăutărească
Lăutărească · Romania
Romica Puceanu, singer of urban lăutărească. Death 24 October 1996 is on Discogs and Romanian notices. Birth year is not picked: 1926 and 1927 both appear. That is listed under Later.
Luncă
Romanian Roma — Vărbilău, Prahova / Bucharest
Lăutărească · Romania
Gabi Luncă. Digi24: Elena-Gabriela Luncă, born 16 October 1938, Vărbilău, Prahova; died 2 April 2021, Ilfov county hospital, COVID-19. Urban lăutărească. A different family from Puceanu.
Kalyi Jag
Hungarian Roma — Nagyecsed / Budapest, from 1978
Vlax song & Central European families · Hungary
Kalyi Jag. End of August 1978. Szatmár Roma youth commuting between Nagyecsed and Budapest. The name is from a line of Bari Károly. Inward song, beside the restaurant primás families.
Nikolić-Lakatos
Austrian Lovara
Vlax song & Central European families · Austria
Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945–2022), Austrian Lovara singer. Hemetek; ICH Austria 2011. A named singer of this inward song.
Grönfors
Finnish Kaale
Finnish Kaale song · Finland
Hilja Grönfors, Master Folk Singer Kaustinen 2005, Suomi Award 2014. Kaaleenlaulut. Named on the Finnish Kaale page.
Járóka
Hungarian Roma — Kisvárda / Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
The restaurant violin family whose funeral gathered the musicians who founded the 100 Member Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. A different line from Lakatos and from Sárközi. The 100 Tagú site names Sándor Járóka Sr. as the master the orchestra was founded to honour.
Boross
Hungarian Roma — Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Lajos Boross, Kossuth-prize primás, perpetual honorary főprímás of the 100 Member Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. The 100 Tagú English page names him as the “King of Primás” who conferred that title on Lendvai Csócsi in 1998.
Danyi
Hungarian Roma — Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
A named Budapest violin family on the 100 Tagú register. President and artistic director from 2023. Rajkó training. A Lakatos or Sárközi blood line would need a pedigree.
Lendvai Csócsi
Hungarian Roma — Ménfőcsanak / Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Chief primás of the 100 Member Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. A Rajkó father, a Rajkó childhood, a title granted by Boross Lajos in 1998. Another named dynasty beside Lakatos, Sárközi and Járóka.
Oláh (Rinaldo)
Slovak Roma — Zvolenská Slatina
Slovak and Czech traditional song · Slovakia
Slovak concertmaster primás. Co-founder of SĽUK. Same professional world as the Hungarian café book, in a different state ensemble and a different country. A different musician from Oláh Ernő of a Budapest café night.
Hortto Kaalo
Finnish Kaale
Finnish Kaale song · Finland
The band that put Kaale song on a Finnish political stage. FMQ: 1960s, fighting for better social conditions, not restaurant music. Named so the Kaale page holds more than Grönfors.
Toki Horváth
Hungarian Roma — Kaposvár
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Kaposvár restaurant violin. Népművészet Mestere, 1954. Rajkó as a child, own orchestra from 1938, then the Capital Folk Orchestra. Left Hungary in 1956. Died in Munich. A different musician from Ernő Toki Balogh, and from the Magyari family of the Hungária Szálló.
Sánta
Hungarian Roma — Kaposvár / Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Kaposvár primás dynasty. ifj. Sánta Ferenc: founding member of the 100 Tagú, then artistic director of the Magyar Nemzeti Cigányzenekar. Two Kossuth prizes. A Lakatos or Járóka blood line would need a pedigree.
Magyari
Hungarian Roma — Debrecen / Budapest
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Debrecen restaurant violin that held the Hungária Szálló in Pest from 1920 until 1940. Lexicon and the national grave register. A different musician from Toki Horváth.
Bihari
Hungarian Roma — Nagyabony / Pest, 1764–1827
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Bihari János. Magyar életrajzi lexikon: Nagyabony, 21 October 1764 — Pest, 26 April 1827. Violinist and composer of the verbunkos age. Abony’s city notice repeats those dates. An ancestor the café Lakatos families name. The Rákóczi March as his work is unproven.
Johan
Hungarian Roma — Budapest, living chair
Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene · Hungary
Johan János. First-person: own orchestra from 2005, Budapest; leading primás of the 100 Tagú, 2012–2025; from 2026 főprímás and artistic director of the Magyar Nemzeti Cigányzenekar. Not merged with Sánta.
Mustafov
Macedonian Roma — Štip
Balkan Romani brass & wedding · North Macedonia
Ferus Mustafov. Saxophone and clarinet. Songlines: Štip, 20 December 1950 — Skopje, 22 May 2023. A wedding-band king who mostly stayed off the world-music circuit.
Mahala Rai Banda
Romanian Roma — Bucharest
Lăutărească · Romania
Bucharest Romani band, public from 2004. Crammed, then Asphalt Tango. Neighbour to the Clejani circuit. Not a merger.
Ando Drom
Hungarian Roma — Budapest, from 1984
Vlax song & Central European families · Hungary
Ando Drom. Romani: on the road. Named public group of inward song, from 1984. Jenő Zsigó. Inward song, beside the restaurant primás families.
Ternipe
Hungarian Roma — Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg / Budapest, from 1989
Vlax song & Central European families · Hungary
Ternipe. Romani: youth. Named Vlach public group of inward song, from 1989. Rombase: close to Kalyi Jag’s folk approach. Inward song, beside the café families.
Rományi Rota
Hungarian Roma — Nagyecsed, from 1985
Vlax song & Central European families · Hungary
Rományi Rota. Roma Wheel. Named public group of inward song. Rombase lists it with Ando Drom among groups trying new genres.
Kanizsa Csillagai
Hungarian Beás — Nagykanizsa, from 1993
Vlax song & Central European families · Hungary
Kanizsa Csillagai. Stars of Kanizsa. Named Beás public family. Underground Magazin, 2005: first local stage 28 February 1993. Beás song, beside Oláh café music and beside Kalyi Jag.