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Aknowledgements:

Gypsyhood wouldn’t be possible without the outstanding support of:  My sister Carito, Ralph and my parents.
 
I would like to thank especially to: Alessandro Passerini, Alexandre Gabriel, Alicia Florián, Blacky, Chris Vallenduuk, Daniel Morgado, Danielle Dufaux, Darren Gash, Diego Laverde, Dr Milan Todorovic, Duncan Sturrok, Edgar Gutierrez, Erik Guldager, Fabio Menna, Fabio Nichols, Fiona Clark, Fransua Cepero Gutierrez, Gianni Bobenzi, Gonçalo Burdado, Goncalo do Carmo, Jota Neves, Julio Montaño, Juanita Andrade, Kemal Avcioglu, Lila Forero, Luca Stefanati, Luis Quaranta, Mauro Pambianchi, Michael Rossi, Mustafa Karaduman, Annette “Netty” Rhodes, Sema Çekiç, Rebecca Brandt, Ricardo Vieira, Samuel Gajiki, Stojan Gajiki, Sara Gajiki, Sedat Özkan, Solaris Music School, Veronica Currie, Eray Düzgünsoy, Ada Döner, Erwin Parra, Frank and Alice (Nimbus Studios), Sonhador, Peneira, Julia Perner, Pascal Miersch, Anni Wydany, Rıfat Önsen, Suat Karahan, Zülal Atagün.

Gypsyhood is Daniel Cruz recording in the streets of the world.  The streets here, are not just roads, they are the destination.  Some musicians perform there, in the street.  Like warriors they battle against the dreadful noise of the jackhammer and against the sweet and personal whispers of our iPods.
 
Gypsyhood started in 1996 as an experimental jamming session on the streets of Bogotá, Colombia, and grew into a vision to give street musicians of the world an opportunity to show their talent, while performing original material. In 2006, Gypsyhood was awarded a First Class Project by Middlesex University and SAE London, showing street music has a real contribution to make to society. Gypsyhood was recorded in cultural centres, music schools, houses of friends, wedding halls, livingrooms and in the street itself.  It has been a real challenge to put together 10 years of recordings in an audio CD; you can hear an evolution in different aspects of the music and the recordings.  Gypsyhood took a life of its own after travelling from one city to the other.  For instance, for the recording of “la vecina desjuiciada”, I had a Scotish piano player beginning the track and then an Ecuadorian friend continuing it.  The guitar was recorded in Stockholm by a Swedish friend and the chorus was sung by an Italian friend living in London… everything to accompany the recording I made with Fransua, a street musician from Santa María del Mar, Cuba.