They call him ‘Django,’ with the ‘d’ apparently silent. You don’t get many pool nicknames that are first-person, singular verbs, but this is one of them. In the Romani (Indo-Aryan) language, it means “I awake.” The word came to use in the Philippines when, in the 1990s, a legendary, Romani jazz guitarist by the name of Django Reinhardt became popular in the islands, where Francisco Bustamante was born in 1963, declaring (after a sort-of nine-month slumber) that he was ‘awake,’ four days after Christmas. He picked the nickname up early in his career, when he was in his mid-to-late 20s, […]
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