Editing Gipsy Kings (section)

===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.