Bireli Lagrene

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Bireli Lagrene is born in 1966 in a family of gypsy musicians. He started learning guitar at the age of four by copying Django Reinhardt's solos note by note. In the early 80s he emerged as the child prodigy who sounded exactly like Django Reinhardt.

An outstanding technician, Lagrene has revealed influences other than Reinhardt, happily incorporating bebop phraseology, rock rhythms and Brazilian music into his work. By the late 80s he had moved from his early Reinhardt-style to fully embrace jazz-rock and other electronically-aided fusions.
Lagrene has also performed live with jazz guitarists Al Di Meola and Larry Coryell.
Lagrene returned to his roots with such brilliant offerings as 1994’s My Favorite Django and 1998’s Blue Eyes as well as violinist Didier Lockwood’s 2000 recording Tribute To Stephane Grappelli.

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