Editing Gipsy Kings (section)

==History==
===Beginnings: 1970s–1980s===
In the 1970s, José Reyes and [[Manitas de Plata]] were a duo who played [[rumba flamenca]] in the southern French town of [[Arles]]. When they split up, Reyes began performing with his sons, Nicolas, [[Canut Reyes|François (Canut)]], André, Patchaï, and Paul (Pablo), as José et Los Reyes (as well as being their family name, ''reyes'' means "kings" in Spanish). After their father's death in 1979, the brothers continued to perform, joined by their cousins Diego, Paco, and Tonino Baliardo (nephews of Manitas de Plata), as well as French Moroccan musician [[Chico Bouchikhi]], who was then married to Marthe Reyes, José's daughter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sullivan |first=Steve |title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWBPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 |year=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8296-6 |pages=143–145}}</ref> Traveling around France and playing at weddings, festivals, and in the streets as a gypsy band, they adopted the moniker Gipsy Kings, with Nicolas as lead vocalist and Tonino on lead guitar. Later, they were hired to play at upper-class parties in such places as [[Saint-Tropez]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Gipsy Kings |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gipsy-kings-mn0000555695/biography |website=allmusic.com |access-date=8 August 2023}}</ref>

Their first two albums, ''[[Allegria]]'' (1982) and ''[[Luna de Fuego]]'' (1983), attracted little notice.

===Success: 1987–present===
Success came for Gipsy Kings with their [[Gipsy Kings (album)|self-titled third album]], released in 1987 (1989 in the United States), which included the songs "[[Djobi Djoba]]", "[[Bamboléo]]", and the ballad "[[Un Amor]]". The record spent forty weeks on the US charts, one of few Spanish-language albums to do so.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Louise |title=The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDr0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 |year=2009 |publisher=New Internationalist |isbn=978-1-906523-70-1 |pages=23–25}}</ref>

Pablo Reyes left the group in 1988, due to hearing problems.<ref name="rfi">{{cite news|title=Biographie |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmusique.rfi.fr%2Fartiste%2Fchanson%2Fgipsy-kings#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |website=musique.rfi.fr |access-date=3 March 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>

Chico Bouchikhi, one of the group's founding members, left in 1991 due to financial disagreements with their then-manager, Claude Martinez,<ref name="rfi" /> and went on to start his own group, [[Chico & the Gypsies]].<ref name="humanite">{{cite news|title=Israël : le grand pardon de Chico |url=http://www.humanite.fr/journal/2001-11-03/2001-11-03-252869 |website=humanite.fr |date=3 November 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421073306/http://www.humanite.fr/journal/2001-11-03/2001-11-03-252869 |access-date=2 March 2024 |archive-date=21 April 2006 |language=fr |trans-title=Israel: the great forgiveness of Chico}}</ref>

Between 1989 and 2013, the band released nine studio albums: ''[[Mosaïque]]'' (1989), ''[[Este Mundo]]'' (1991), ''[[Love and Liberté]]'' (1993), ''[[Estrellas (album)|Estrellas]]'' (1995), ''[[Compas (album)|Compas]]'' (1997), ''[[Somos Gitanos]]'' (2001), ''[[Roots (Gipsy Kings album)|Roots]]'' (2004), ''[[Pasajero (Gipsy Kings album)|Pasajero]]'' (2006), and ''[[Savor Flamenco]]'' (2013). Their latest, ''Evidence'', came out in 2018. ''Savor Flamenco'' won a [[Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album]] in 2014.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Grammys 2014: The complete list of nominees and winners |date=26 January 2014 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/music/la-et-ms-grammy-nominations-winners-list-story.html#page=1 |access-date=28 January 2015}}</ref> In 1992, they issued the concert album ''[[Live (Gipsy Kings album)|Live]]''.

The band have been criticised by flamenco purists, but Nicolas Reyes has said in an interview that the flamenco world is not in great shape itself, and that the band are proud of their success. Their 1997 album, ''Compas'', however, contains more traditional flamenco music.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wald|first=Elijah|title=Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MgyQm3PDb4C&pg=PA193 |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-97929-0 |pages=192–194}}</ref>