Django Reinhardt

Jean Django Reinhardt was a Belgianborn French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity.

Jean Django Reinhardt was born 23160 January 1910 in Liberchies, PontCelles, Belgium, into a French family of Manouche Romani descent. His father was named Jean Eugene Weiss, but used the alias JeanBaptiste Reinhard on the birth certificate to hide from French military conscription. His mother, Laurence Reinhardt, was a dancer. The birth certificate refers to 160Jean Reinhart, son of Jean Baptiste Reinhart, artist, and Laurence Reinhart, housewife, domiciled in Paris160. Reinhardts nickname Django, in Romani means I awake. Reinhardt spent most of his youth in Romani encampments close to Paris, where he started playing violin, banjo, and guitar. His family made cane furniture for a living, but its members included several keen amateur musicians.

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