The Castro brothers had a considerable influence on the young Django Reinhardt, playing folk music and waltzes at parties and meetings. It was one of them, Poulette Castro – whose waltz “Valse a Poulette” si still played nowadays – who taught Django the proper wrist position of the right hand, that allows to obtain a [...]
Django Reinhardt – Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, a.k.a. Django – was born in Liverchies, Belgium, on January 23, 1910, from a family of Manouche origin, a branch of european gypsies from Eastern Europe that had spread to Germany, eastern France, Holland and Belgium, at the beginning of the past century.
He belonged to a family of itinerant musicians. [...]
