{"id":2116253,"date":"2025-10-26T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2116253"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:56:59","slug":"the-new-minstrels-louie-reyes-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-new-minstrels-louie-reyes-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Minstrels&#8217; Louie Reyes dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ai-summary-section-container\">\n<div class=\"ai-summary-warning-container\">\n<p id=\"ai-summary-warning-label\" class=\"ai-summary-warning-container__label\">This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<em>&#8216;Today, I lost the love of my life,&#8217; singer Louie Reyes&#8217; husband Cesar de la Fuente writes<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Veteran jazz singer Louie Reyes died, fellow artist Ivy Violan confirmed on Sunday, October 26. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippine Music Industry celebrates the life of our dear Ms. LOUIE REYES. No goodbyes just the best hello to a very very dear friend and colleague,\u201d Violan wrote on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fiveroncarmen.violan%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02CdhUmyEjYAjZ5WkwcWqBza3vDTfR1FLsr4jJdjfH65KpmfbL9bpytQC8TV8a9Hanl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=350\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I lost the love of my life,\u201d Reyes\u2019 husband, Cesar de la Fuente, said in a comment under Violan\u2019s tribute post. <\/p>\n<p>Reyes and De la Fuente wed in 1979, and had just celebrated their 46th anniversary in January this year.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes was a musician through and through, first taking up Music Education at the College of the Holy Spirit in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>De la Fuente had co-founded <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/entertainment\/music\/41259-circus-band-new-minstrels-reunion-concert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Minstrels<\/a>, an all-male show band that would perform covers of global hits to Filipino audiences. Not long after, the group welcomed female artists, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/entertainment\/music\/joey-albert-legacy-opm-evolution\/\">Joey Albert<\/a> and Reyes, among others, later joining the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Reyes would go on to release her own album, <em>It\u2019s Time, <\/em>consisting of songs like \u201cBody and Soul,\u201d \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Go,\u201d and \u201cOut of Words.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She later migrated to the US in 1999, according to a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/entertainment\/2013\/09\/11\/1194911\/louie-reyes-lives-best-both-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> from Philstar. <\/p>\n<p>Reyes is survived by De la Fuente and her children. <strong>\u2013 Rappler.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rappler.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. &#8216;Today, I lost the love of my life,&#8217; singer Louie Reyes&#8217; husband Cesar de la Fuente writes MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Veteran jazz singer Louie Reyes died, fellow artist Ivy Violan confirmed on Sunday, October 26. \u201cThe Philippine Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-New-Minstrels-Louie-Reyes-dies.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116255,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116253\/revisions\/2116255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}