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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Belgium
- Active from
- 1950-11-20
jazz
Discography
- Fleur de Lavende1991
- Swing Guitars1994
- Hungaria1996
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Fapy Lafertin was born in 1950 in Courtraie in Belgium into the Gypsy community of Manouches. He started playing guitar at the tender age of five years. He was in a trio with his brother on guitar and his father on violin playing traditional Manouches music. Later he performed with the “Piotto” orchestra playing gypsy style and the “Hot Club de France” repetoire. In the late seventies he was a founder member of the group WASO with Koen de Cauter (reeds), Albert Vivi Limburger (rhythm) and Michel
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- Fapy Lafertin, guitarist on stage in London, 1983.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1950-03-20
- start of work period
- 1975-00-00
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