Prinzo Winterstein
Prinzo Winterstein was a German gypsy jazz guitarist from the Sinti ethnic group . He noticed early on the artistic disposition of his sons Holzmanno and Ziroli Winterstein and taught them to play the guitar. In the early 1980s there were sessions with the German jazz guitarist Armin Heitz .
Winterstein was considered an excellent guitarist, well-known far beyond Sinti circles. Above all, he excelled as a soloist .
Discographic notes
- Prinzo & Betzi Winterstein: Sweet Guitar (RBM Records = Music from German Gypsies No. 7)
Web links
- Prinzo Winterstein at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary Ziroli Winterstein (web archive)
- ↑ Short bio (DjangoStation)
- ↑ biography of Armin Heitz
- ↑ Rüdiger Vossen, Wolf Dietrich: Gypsies: Roma, Sinti, Gitanos, Gypsies between Persecution and Romanticization : Catalog for the exhibition ›Gypsies between Romanticization and Persecution - Roma, Sinti, Manusch, Calé in Europe‹ of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. Hamburg: Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde 1983. p. 300, cf. also Martin Walser & Asta Scheib Armer Nanosh Frankfurt am Main 2016
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| SURNAME | Winterstein, Prinzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |