Flash with the cash is a bit of an understatement when it comes to those involved in a controversial new gypsy music craze. Manele has been described as the gypsy version of gangster rap, glorifying ...

But Manele – a Turkish-sounding electro-folk which originated in Romania in the 1980s – is proving controversial KANYE West might have some competition in the charts from a bunch of Romanian gypsy pop ...

Gypsy music’s brash new sound – manele – is dividing Romania’s Roma community with its link to gangsters. Plus: the life of Marx If I’m forced to change career at any point, I think I shall retrain as ...

Filmmaker Liviu Tipuriță takes us into the heart of the astonishing world of Romania's super-rich Gypsy popstars - a world of fast cars, lavish houses and gangsters. The Roma community is one of the ...

Filmmaker Liviu Tipurita takes us inside the extraordinary world of the latest controversial craze in Gypsy music that is sweeping across Romania. The majority of Romanian’s Roma live below the ...