During the Armourdale floods of 1951, many Latino families had to find a new home to live in.

Many chose the west side of Kansas City and others chose the Argentin neighborhood.

In Rosedale.

In the Argentin neighborhood there is a family whose last name is Kings.

A family of musicians for many generations.

This is part of their story.

These are the Reyes brothers.

My name is Andre Reyes Jr.

I'm from Kansas City, Kansas.

I'm Antonio, raised from Kansas City, Kansas.

Born and raised.

We are actually fourth generation musicians, are a great great grandpa.

Started playing and it's just been handed down as a tradition.

Our grandpa played and both our dead and our uncle also played music for, well.

So my creative process has been very different.

It doesn't always happen, you know, the same way.

Sometimes I could be out doing a workout or like walking in the neighborhood especially, you know, like our first album.

I could be walking around and listening to the same music or listening to the same kind of idea in my head.

And I come up with lyrics right there.

It could be things that I've recently experienced in life in terms of like the storytelling that I've, that I've been told, or it's even just like sitting down at the piano for a few hours and finding an idea that works and kind of just growing off that idea and creating a creating some sort of song out of it.

But it could just come, you know, it comes in different many like different ways and shapes and forms when it comes to creating my music.

I, I'm playing drums since I was five years old.

I just remember always being surrounded by whether it was my brother, my dad, my uncles, my grandfather, my grandfather always had instruments in his house.

Used to go there just for.

The fact that.

Disaster hit.

Family is everything to us.

We've run as a unit all our lives, you know.

And it's not just the the four of us.

My brother and my mom and dad and myself.

It's it's our extended family.

It's our aunts, uncles, our grandparents, our cousins.

We all are there for each other and even the community itself.

Argentina, Kansas City, Kansas, the West side, Kansas City, Missouri.

That's one big family, especially in the Hispanic community.

Okay, don't wait for TV.

And in the back.

You may not heard the car at all.

But we love the brothers and sisters, and you can still stand tall.

Do you think for.

In the United States, a historical sociolinguistic phenomenon is occurring with the third and fourth generations of Latinos born here.

It's because they don't speak Spanish.

And this is not because they distanced themselves from their culture, but the consequence of a conscious decision made by their grandparents, the vast majority out of love, to protect their children from the racism they had experienced.

We didn't necessarily grow up speaking Spanish well because our grandparents were made fun of and really had a hard time when they did speak Spanish as they were growing up as kids.

So it kind of limited us in that sense.

But as we continue to get older, we ended up learning more about our culture and trying to learn more of the, you know, the Spanish language.

And we made sure to carry on the traditions that make us proud to be Latinos in Mexican American.

Despite not speaking the language.

Most Chicanos or Latinos born in the United States strongly identify with Latin American culture and roots.