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El Reencuentro was the name that six ex-members of musical group Menudo used for their comeback project remembering Menudo's golden era.
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, Rene Farrait,
Miguel Cancel Miguel Ángel Cancel Vázquez (born June 28, 1968) is a Puerto Rican singer, actor and retired police officer who began his career with the Puerto Rico-based boy band Menudo. Career Menudo Miguel was born in Chicago, Illinois as the only ch ...
, Johnny Lozada,
Ray Reyes Ray Reyes León (March 13, 1970 – April 30, 2021) was a Puerto Rican singer who was a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. Career He was born in New York City and was raised in Levittown, a neighborhood in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, th ...
, and
Charlie Masso Carlos Javier Rivera Massó (born June 13, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), better known as Charlie Massó, is a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican singer and actor. Massó is a former member of Menudo (band), Menudo, joining the band at the height of M ...
re-joined to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their success in
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and several other countries in the world. They started in 1998 as an experimental project and they had an unexpected success that continued until 2015 through North and Latin America.


History


1998

In the late 90's, former members of Menudo reunited for a radio special in Sistema 102, a local Puerto Rican radio station. Hundreds of fans gathered outside the radio station that night and the idea kicked off for a one time concert to be held at the Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce. Ray Reyes was the member that took the idea to the next level, and began contacting members Ricky Meléndez, Johnny Lozada, René Farrait, Miguel Cancel, Charlie Massó and
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, with Xavier being the only member to decline participating in the event. Despite the idea of having a concert at Centro de Bellas Artes, response was so big that the band had to move the concert to Coliseo Roberto Clemente and tickets went sold out in less than an hour so it ended up being three consecutive concerts in
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and tour around
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. The band got a million-dollar record contract with
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that distributed their gold-selling live album El Reencuentro: 15 Años Después.


2005-Present

After the 1998 concert, the band didn't reunite until 2005. The band continued to reunite sporadically during the late 2000s. In 2010, they performed in
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, Puerto Rico. Following the
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, the group released a single titled "Amistad" to raise funds. This was the first and only time that the group released any original material. The track was written by
Omar Alfanno Omar Enrique Alfanno Velásquez is a Panamanian singer-songwriter of Latin music who is most active in the salsa and merengue genres. ''Reuters'' noted him as "one of Latin music's premiere songwriters and the man behind countless hits". He has ...
and Roberto Sueiro with Miguel Cancel and Charlie Massó providing lead vocals. On August 25, 2015, El Reencuentro announced that they would no longer be performing as a group. Already slated shows had to be canceled and Lozada apologized to fans saying the issue had been over the timing of payment for the band's performances. During 2015, four of the members of El Reencuentro went back on tour, this time under the name 'Menudomania Forever'. These included Masso, Farrait, Reyes and Cancel. They were joined by 13 other Menudo from different eras, including
Robert Avellanet Roberto Alejandro Avellanet Negrón, known professionally as Robert Avellanet or Roba, is a Puerto Rican singer who was a member of '' Menudo'' from 1988 to 1991. His uncle is the famous Puerto Rican singer Chucho Avellanet. Biography Avella ...
,
Jonathan Montenegro Jonathan Daniel Montenegro Uzcátegui (born May 11, 1978, in Caracas) is a well known Venezuelan actor and singer. Montenegro was a member of the popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. Early life Jonathan Daniel Montenegro Uzcátegui was born ...
and
Rawy Torres Wilson Ramón Torres Zapata "Rawy Torres" is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, and guitarist, who was a member of the boy band, Menudo. Biography Torres joined Menudo in 1989, replacing Ricky Martin Enrique Martin Morales (born Decem ...
. In 2019, Melendez, Lozada, Cancel, Reyes, and Farrait reconciled and began performing together once again under the name Menudo but without Masso due to disagreements between Lozada and Masso. In September 2019 their "Subete a Mi Moto Tour" began in their native Puerto Rico and spread internationally. Reyes died on April 30, 2021, of an apparent heart attack. He was 51. Confirman que menudo Ray Reyes murió de un "infarto masivo"
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Discography


Albums


Singles


See also

* Proyecto M


References


External links


Listen to Menudo songs performed by El Reencuentro
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