Despite the yawning gap between the Slovak majority and the Roma minority, Roma music does not suffer from acceptance issues and continues impacting Slovak artists to this day. A wedding without Roma ...

SKOPJE, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, September 27 (UNHCR) - Esma Redzepova Teodosievska is known around the Balkans region as the Queen of Roma Music. A Roma born in Skopje with Jewish, ...

While Roma people are the largest ethnic minority in Czechia, comprising about 2.2 percent of its population, they are considered one of the most stigmatized and discriminated minorities in the nation ...

One thousand years ago or more (nobody knows exactly when) the Roma people left their home in northern India. Since then, the Gypsies have traveled the world, while retaining their distinctive culture ...

“Who are the Roma?” will explore the history of the Roma (or Romani) people – commonly thought of inaccurately as “Gypsies” – who have been in the Americas since the late 1400s. Their roots are in ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

On 8 April, the Roma gypsy community in Scotland celebrate a day dedicated to their culture and way of life. Music and song is part of every day Roma life, with children learning to play a variety of ...

This article is part of the Breaking out: Stories of Roma empowerment special report, presented by the Roma Foundation for Europe. SLIVEN, Bulgaria — The train tracks that carve through the Bulgarian ...

If you've never been to Mexico City, that is what the streets sound like. They are full of music in the form of vendors selling their wares with songs that they make up, others using whistles to ...