"Djobi, Djoba" is a hit song by the

Gipsy Kings Gipsy Kings are a group of flamenco, salsa, and pop musicians from Arles and Montpellier in southern France, who perform mostly in Catalan but also mix in Spanish with southern French dialects. Although the group members were born in France, t ...

, a French-

Calé The Romani in Spain, generally known by the exonym () or the endonym ''Calé'', belong to the Iberian Cale Romani subgroup, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ) and in Southern France. Their sense of identity and cohesion stems f ...

rumba flamenca Rumba flamenca, also known as flamenco rumba or simply rumba (), is a '' palo'' (style) of flamenco music developed in Andalusia, Spain. It is known as one of the '' cantes de ida y vuelta'' (roundtrip songs), music which diverged in the new world ...

band. It was initially released in 1982 as an acoustic version on their debut album ''

Allegria ''Allegria'' (Italian; "joy") is the debut studio album by the Gipsy Kings, released in 1982 in Europe. Overview This album and its successor, ''Luna de Fuego'', are very different from their later albums. They are both "unplugged" and traditio ...

''. In 1987, the song was re-recorded and released as a single. This version is from their self-titled third album. Along with other hits from the same album such as "

Bamboléo "Bamboléo" is a 1987 Spanish language song by Romani people in Spain, Gitano-French band Gipsy Kings, from their Gipsy Kings (album), eponymous album. The song was written by band members Tonino Baliardo, Chico Bouchikhi (J. Bouchikhi) and Nicol ...

" and "

Un Amor "Un Amor" (meaning "One Love") is a single by the Gipsy Kings released on 8 November 1988. The song was composed by Gipsy Kings, Los Reyes, N. Reyes, T. Baliardo and J. Bouchikhi under the label of Nonesuch Records and appears on their self-title ...

", "Djobi Djoba" helped rocket the Gipsy Kings to

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an popularity, before they gained popularity in America in 1989. In 1989, ''Gipsy Kings'' was released in the US and it spent 40 weeks on the charts, one of very few

Spanish language Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 millio ...

albums to do so.

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External links

The Gipsy Kings discography, news (Music City)
1982 songs 1987 singles Gipsy Kings songs {{1980s-single-stub