In 1991, Reyes released his debut album Tu Serás Mi Reina. The song featured one of his first successful songs "Como Fui A Enamorarme De Ti". It also featured the song "Voy Pa' lla", which was made famous by Dominican bachata musician Anthony Santos. There has been a dispute on who the song originally belongs to as they both released their own versions in the same year.[3] In 1993, he released his second album titled Si El Amor Condena, Estoy Condenado. It featured the hit song "Se Fue Mi Amor", also titled as "Se Fue Mi Amor Bonito". In 1994, he released the album Bachata Con Categoría, in which he would start calling himself El Principe del Amargue (The Prince of Bitterness). At the time, the genre was mostly based on music about heartbreak and bitterness. From 1995 to 1997, he released three more studio albums with a more modinzed style to his music. Also in 1997, he released his first compilation album Estelares De Frank Reyes, which was based on the best songs from his first two studio albums. This compilation album was a success, thus helping elevate Reyes' career.
In 1999, he was awarded Bachata Artist of the Year by the Casandra Awards (now Soberano Awards).[2] In the same year he released his eighth studio album, Extraño Mi Pueblo. It included hit songs like "Orgullo De Mas", "Extraño Mi Pueblo", and "Con El Amor No Se Juega". In 2000, he released his first live album Bachata De Gala. It is based on a concert in which included an orquestra band led by Dominican musician Jorge Taveras. Later that year, he released his ninth studio album "Amor En Silencio", which featured huge hits like "Ya Basta", "De Punta A Punta", and "Tu Eres Ajena", which has two versions, one in bachata and one in balada.
In mid or late 2006, Reyes released his thirteenth studio album Pienso En Ti. Even though its main single, which the album is named after, is a bachata song, it is mostly a merengue album. The other two bachata songs in this album were "Navidad" and "Una Espina Saca Otra" with Dominican singer Alex Bueno. This was his second collaboration in his career and the first collaboration with a bachata artist as at the time collaborations in bachata were rare.
In 2012, he released the album Soy Tuyo.[7] It included singles "Se Me Olvido Que Te Amaba", "24 Horas" and Amor a Distastancia, which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Tropical Airplay chart. In 2013, Frank, along with Theodoro Reyes, would be featured in the song, Corazón De Hierro with American bachata trio Vena, which consisted of Len Melody and Max Agende from Aventura and Steve Styles from Xtreme. The song peaked at number 5 in the same chart.
In 2014, he released the album Noche de Pasión.[8] It featured Dominican bachata singer Alexandra. The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart. One of its singles, which the album is named after, gained huge international success and on the Billboard charts, it peaked at number 31 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and at 29 on the Latin Airplay chart. It also peaked at number 1 on the Monitor Latino's Dominican Republic Bachata chart. Its 2015 single "Como Sanar" peaked at number 38 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, at number 28 on the Latin Airplay chart, and at number 10 on the Tropical Airplay chart. It was nominated for the VideoClip Awards in the category Best Bachata Music Video.[1] Other successful songs included "Ya Te Olvide", "Enséñame A Olvidarte", "Olvídame Tu", "Mi Vida Sin Ti", "Que Hay de Tu Vida", which was its first single. In 2015, he would ones again be award Bachata Artist of the Year at the Soberano Awards.
On September of 2016, he released the album Devuélveme Mi Libertad.[9] It peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart. Two of its singles peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard Tropical Airplay chart, "Fecha De Vencimiento" peaked at number 10 and "Devuélveme Mi Libertad" peaked at number 8. In the same same year, he was featured in the Spanglish single "I Wanna Tell You" with Canadian bachata singer Chantel Collado. In 2017, Reyes would win the Soberano Awards for Bachata Artist of the Year for a sixth time. On April 3 2017, he released the single "Siempre Te Voy A Amar" with Dominican bachata singer Kamilo, also known as K-Milo and Kamilolf. The following year he would win Bachata Artist of the Year for a seventh time making him the most awarded artist in that category.[1] In November of that year, he released the Christmas single "Vientos de Navidad". Later that month, he was featured in the remix of the merengue single "Alegría" with Dominican merengue group Nexo, also known as Nexomuzic.
On November 8, 2019, he would release a merengue album titled Solo Merengue, Vol. 17.[12] This was his first merengues only album and the first album with no bachata songs in it. It featured collaborations with Wason Brazobán, Bonny Cepeda, Toño Rosario, and Los Hermanos Rosario. It was supported by the singles "Mi Sorpresa Fuiste Tú", "Quiero Tus Besos", "Por Ti No Sufro", which peaked at number one on the Monitor Latino's Dominican Republic Merengue chart.[13] It also featured a merengue version of "Ya No Te Creo Nada", which is a song from his seventh studio album Vine A Decirte Adiós (1998). Also the song "Quiero Tus Besos" only featured Reyes in the single version. Cepeda was added to the song later on in the album version of the song.
In 2020, he was featured in the song "No Voy A llorar" with Dominican bachata singer Luis Segura. This was a modernized remix of one of Segura's songs and it is part of Segura's collaborative album El Papá De La Bachata, Su Legado - Añoñado 2 (2020). On February 14, 2020, he released the first single for nineteenth studio album titled Decidí. It peaked at number 12 on the Monitor Latino's Dominican Republic General chart and at number one on its Bachata chart.[14][15] The music video was released on April 30, 2020. On June 19, 2020, he released a pop/balada version of the song "Cómo Olvidarte", which is from his 2016 album Devuélveme Mi Libertad. This version was not featured for the 2021 album. The second single is titled "Como Hojas Al Viento" and it was released on August 14, 2020. It also peaked at number 1 in the same bachata chart. The music video was released on November 30, 2020. On January 29, 2021, he released its third single "Aventurero", which also peaked at number one on the same bachata chart as well. OnFebruary 12, 2021, he released the album Aventurero, named after the third single. This album also featured the songs "Egoista" and "Corazón De Acero", which were released as singles later on.
Reyes' collaborations with industry giants like Romeo Santos demonstrate his influence and versatility in the Latin music landscape, with a career characterized by chart-toppers, transformative albums, and countless awards, Frank Reyes has secured his legacy as an iconic figure in the world of bachata music.
After recent visits by other well-known bachata musicians such as Monchy and Joe Veras, another big name in the genre originating in the Dominican Republic, Luis Vargas, comes to Sarasota. Performing bachata since the 1980s, Vargas was also the subject of the 2005 documentary "Santo Domingo Blues," and earned a Billboard Latin Music Award Tropical Album of the Year nomination last month for "Grandes de La Bachata: Vol. IV" with Frank Reyes. Vargas has also collaborated in recent years with bachata superstar Romeo Santos, who headlines Tampa's Amalie Arena later this month, appearing on his albums "Utopia" and "Formula, Vol. 1." 10 p.m. Friday; Bombón Restaurant & Lounge, 1118 N. Washington Blvd., Sarasota; $50; tickeri.com
Featured on member Romeo Santos' surprise album Utopia, Aventura's "Inmortal" debuts this week on the all-genre singles chart at No. 95. The song marks the group's second track to appear on the Hot 100, following "Ella Y Yo" with Don Omar back in 2005. No stranger to the chart as a soloist, bachata king Santos has logged an additional ten singles there as a lead or featured artist, with "Inmortal" bringing his total now to an even dozen.
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