Django Reinhardt.

Jean Reinhardt, better known as Django Reinhardt, pronounced [ d͡ʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [ d͡ʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt], was a French jazz guitarist born on 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, now a section of the commune of Pont-à-Celles, in the province of Hainaut, near the city of Charleroi, in Belgium, and died on 16 May 1953 in Fontainebleau. His style of playing and composition was followed by admirers, giving rise to a distinct jazz style in its own right, gypsy jazz.

Born into a Sinti family commonly known in France as 'Manouche', he remains one of the most respected and influential guitarists in the history of jazz. Seriously injured in the fire that destroyed his caravan at the age of 18, he bore the scars of his burns to his left hand for the rest of his life, which forced him to find a new technique and to play in a style so distinctive that his admirers in later generations went so far as to bind their fingers to replicate his disability and his technique.

Several of his descendants became guitarists: Lousson Reinhardt, his eldest son from a first marriage (1929-1992), Babik Reinhardt, his second son (1944-2001), and David Reinhardt, his grandson (Babik's son), as well as Levis Adel-Baumgartner, a descendant of Lousson.