Balogh K.

Born 1959 in Miskolc, Kálmán Balogh is one of the foremost Hungarian cimbalom players descending from a famous dinasty of Hungarian Gipsy musicians. He plays mainly folk music even today, but has also gained big successes by playing other types of music. In 1980, he graduated as cimbalom-pedagogue at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. He has worked with the best among the Hungarian folk bands: Jánosi, Ökrös, Méta, Téka, Muzsikás, Vízöntő, Zsarátnok and Vasmalom.