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Kanizsa Csillagai

Stars of Kanizsa

Hungarian Beás — Nagykanizsa, from 1993

Style: Vlax song & Central European families

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.

Rombase (Kovalcsik): the first Boyash band was the short-lived Frácilor; then the Stars of Kanizsa. They adapted Boyash folksongs.

Underground Magazin, 11 February 2005: Roma from Nagykanizsa; Beás songs. Leader Horváth Zoltán, guitar and voice. First appearance 28 February 1993, a local Ki mit tud? round. A family band in that notice: wife Ibi, voice; brother Sándor, guitar and mandolin. Extra chairs in that article are listed under Later until a family page records them.

Beás dialect is Romanian-related, not Romani. That is already on this style page. This is the named singing family that page waited for.

Lineage

Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.

  1. Generation 1

    Horváth Zoltán

    Guitar, voice

    Underground Magazin 2005. Leader.

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  2. Generation 2

    Kanizsa Csillagai

    Voice, guitar, kanna — Beás song · from 1993

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Neighbours

Same country or city, but a different way of playing.

  • Veres (Sárközi) — Hungarian Roma → Rotterdam / The Hague
  • Lakatos — Hungarian Roma — Budapest (and Belgium, for a time)
  • Sárközi / Sárközy — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
  • Czinka — Hungarian Roma — Kingdom of Hungary, eighteenth century
  • Kalyi Jag — Hungarian Roma — Nagyecsed / Budapest, from 1978
  • Járóka — Hungarian Roma — Kisvárda / Budapest
  • Boross — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
  • Danyi — Hungarian Roma — Budapest

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