robert plant's romani roots i see that there are some information about plant having some romani roots as far as i know however plant said my mother was a gypsy where gypsy could've meant a traveller or a a hippie in terms of a lifestyle not ethnicity he could've meant some itinerant groups in europe like for instance the irish travellers or maybe some scottish gypsy and traveller groups i know robert plant is from the uk and i've heard that british people usually don't use the word gypsy when speaking about romani people but they use it when speaking about people who lead itinerant life any conformation that plant used it in terms of his romani ethnic origin