Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt sits in the rarest tier of musicians for me. After a fire left two fingers on his fretting hand barely usable, he did not adapt around the limitation so much as transcend it, inventing a guitar language no one had heard. He effectively created Gypsy jazz single-handedly, the first major jazz voice to rise in Europe. More than seventy years after his death in 1953, guitarists still chase his sound and fail. He turned a catastrophic injury into a signature and then into art. When I need a definition of resilience, I just listen to him play.

Name (English)

Django Reinhardt

Name (Japanese)

ジャンゴ・ラインハルト

Reading

じゃんご・らいんはると

Born

January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Pont-à-Celles, Hainaut, Belgium

Occupation

guitarist / composer / banjoist / jazz musician / jazz guitarist

• Official sitehttps://www.djangostation.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django%20Reinhardt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44122

Tags

• Hainaut
• guitarist
• composer
• banjoist

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.