Editing Django Reinhardt (section)

=== Early life ===
Reinhardt was born on 23 January 1910 in [[Liberchies]], [[Pont-à-Celles]], Belgium,<ref name="Balen 2003">{{Cite book|title = Django Reinhardt: Le Génie vagabond|first = Noël|year = 2003|isbn = 978-2-268-04561-0|last = Balen| publisher=Rocher }}</ref> into a French family<ref name=Bar /> of [[Manouche]] Romani descent.<ref name="Balen 2003" /> His French, Alsatian father, Jean Eugene Weiss, domiciled in Paris with his wife, went by Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, his wife's surname, to avoid French military conscription.<ref name="allaboutjazz.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25499|title=Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz|work=All About Jazz|date=7 May 2007 |access-date=3 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127173102/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/django-reinhardt-and-the-illustrated-history-of-gypsy-jazz-django-reinhardt-by-j-robert-bragonier/ |archive-date=27 Nov 2022}}</ref> His mother, Laurence Reinhardt, was a dancer.<ref name="allaboutjazz.com" /> The birth certificate refers to "Jean Reinhart, son of Jean Baptiste Reinhart, artist, and Laurence Reinhart, housewife, domiciled in Paris".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.djangostation.com/IMG/jpg/NaissanceDjango2.jpg|title=Official birth certificate of Jean Reinhardt|work=Django Station|access-date=3 February 2013}}</ref>

A number of authors have repeated the suggestion that Reinhardt's nickname, Django, is [[Romani language|Romani]] for "I awake";<ref name=Dregni />{{rp|4–5}} it may also simply have been a diminutive, or local [[Walloon language|Walloon]] version, of "Jean".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.djangobooks.com/blog/sinti-culture-language-the-origin-of-the-name-django/|title=Sinti culture, language & the origin of the name Django|date=28 August 2014|website=Djangobooks.com|access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref> Reinhardt spent most of his youth in Romani encampments close to Paris, where he started playing the violin, banjo and guitar. He became adept at stealing chickens.<ref name=Dregni />{{rp|5}}<ref name=Delaunay>{{cite book|last=Delaunay|first=Charles|title=Django Reinhardt|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1961|isbn=0-306-80171-X}}</ref>{{rp|14}} His father reportedly played music in a family band comprising himself and seven brothers; a surviving photograph shows this band including his father on piano.

Reinhardt was attracted to music at an early age, first playing the violin. At the age of 12, he received a [[Guitjo (six-string)|banjo-guitar]] as a gift. He quickly taught himself to play, mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched, who would have included local virtuoso players of the day such as Jean "Poulette" Castro and Auguste "Gusti" Malha, as well as from his uncle Guiligou, who played violin, banjo and guitar.<ref name=Dregni />{{rp|28}} Reinhardt was able to make a living playing music by the time he was 15, busking in cafés, often with his brother Joseph. At this time, he had not started playing jazz, although he had probably heard and had been intrigued by the version of jazz played by American expatriate bands like [[Billy Arnold (bandleader)|Billy Arnold's]].<ref>Dregni, Michael. Django : the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend . Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 2004. 37-42</ref>

Reinhardt received little formal education and acquired the rudiments of literacy only in adult life.<ref name=Delaunay />{{rp|13}}