FORT MYERS -- The world-music community received a percussive shot in the arm in the mid-'80s when the Gipsy Kings, an offshoot of flamenco legends Los Reyes, married pop and Arabic music with the ...

Yusuf Ali, a Dubai-born UAE national, didn't understand much of the Catalan lyrics of the Gipsy Kings' songs, marked by frenetic flamenco chords and gitane shouts. Yusuf Ali, a Dubai-born UAE national ...