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Loyko
Loyko ensemble
Russian Roma — violin and guitar
Style: Russian Romani romances
Russian Romani ensemble from 1990. Tabor song and violin virtuosity after the Soviet years.
Loyko formed in 1990 and carried Russian Romani violin and song onto the world-music circuit. Another chair of the same eastern family as the Kolpakovs, not the same family.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Loyko
Violin, guitar, voice · formed 1990
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1990
New orchestra
New ensemble, old tabor
Loyko
Russian Romani violin and song after the Soviet years.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Kolpakov — Russian Roma — seven-string guitar line