# Spanish speakers: What the heck are these guys singing about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323 "2009-11-04T19:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/1 "2009-11-04T19:59:35Z")
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this on youtube but this is killing me. What the heck are these guys singing about?! I kind of dig the song BTW, even tho’ I don’t know what the hell they are singing about. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVnSJfMsL4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVnSJfMsL4) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/2 "2009-11-04T20:23:36Z")
I’m not fluent in Spanish but it seems to be Hungarian/Gypsy music. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/3 "2009-11-04T20:31:22Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > I’m not fluent in Spanish but it seems to be Hungarian/Gypsy music. Mods, if you see this can you make a better tittle that might get better hits? I’d appreciate it if you would. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/4 "2009-11-04T20:51:52Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > I’m not fluent in Spanish but it seems to be Hungarian/Gypsy music. I GoodSearched the singers’ names. In 5 pages of hits, not one was in English. The phrase Hungarian Gypsy appeared in several. “Magyar” was also in several, and I think that means the same as Gypsy. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/5 "2009-11-04T20:53:51Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I GoodSearched the singers’ names. In 5 pages of hits, not one was in English. The phrase Hungarian Gypsy appeared in several. “Magyar” was also in several, and I think that means the same as Gypsy. Magyar means Hungarian. ---
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/6 "2009-11-04T22:40:33Z")
Hungarian people is what comes up with Wikipedia when I typed in Magyar. And the Wikipedia front page has Magyar as one of the languages from which to choose. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/7 "2009-11-04T22:51:21Z")
Googling around it seems like Bango Margit is or was some sort of Gypsy icon, but there aren’t any sites in English that describe who she is. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-speakers-what-the-heck-are-these-guys-singing-about/516323/8 "2009-11-05T00:27:25Z")
[This site](http://www.bangomargit.hu/bio.php) is a biography. Run through an internet translator, it seems that she was a Gypsy born in eastern Hungary in 1950 and was discovered by a radio station talent contest as a teenager, and has been a rising international Gypsy singing star ever since. ETA: I’m guessing Bangó is the surname, Margit (=Margaret) the first name.