About Volare (Nel blu di pinto di blu)

Volaré! The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings is a compilation album by the French Rumba Catalana band Gipsy Kings, which was released in 1999 in Europe, Japan and Mexico. The US version released in 2000 is identical with the omission of "Hitmix '99 (Radio Edit)" which appear as track #20 on the first CD1 of the other versions. "Pida Me La" previously only appeared on the European compilation album Greatest Hits. Also, "Sin Ella", "La Dona" and "Quiero Saber" are slightly different remastered versions of their Live album. "Oh Èh Oh Èh" was first released on 1998 compilation "Allez! Ola! Olé! (El Album Oficial De La Copa Del Mundo)". "I've Got No Strings" comes from the 1991 compilation to Disney's project Simply Mad About The Mouse. Gipsy Kings's spanish remix of "Hotel California" was first released on the 1990 compilation "Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary".

The Gipsy Kings are a group of flamenco, salsa and pop musicians from Arles and Montpellier in the south of France who perform in a mixture of languages, mostly in Spanish, but also mixing dialects from the South of France. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani who fled Spain during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. They are known for bringing Catalan rumba, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco music, to worldwide audiences. The group originally called itself Los Reyes. Their music has a particular rumba flamenca style, with pop influences; many songs of the Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as salsa and rumba. Their music has been described as a place where "Spanish flamenco and gypsy rhapsody meet salsa funk".