Antal Béla Babai (April 27, 1914 – October 1, 1997) was a Romani-American violinist, and interpreter of Romani music.
Babai was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire and emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s, where he became famous as "The King of the Gypsy Violin".
[1] Babai was born in Graz, Austria-Hungary[2] and grew up in Kaposvár near a large community of Romani.
Babai started an orchestra in which he played the violin, accompanied by a kontras (second fiddler), a bratchas (violist), a bogos (double bass), a cimbalom-player, and a cellist.
Babai was married to Emma Horvath, who was of Bashalde Romani descent, and had a son and two daughters.