{"id":374523,"date":"2026-06-25T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374523\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:22:08","slug":"menudo-is-back-and-kicking-off-their-reunion-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374523\/","title":{"rendered":"Menudo is Back and Kicking Off Their Reunion in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boy band is now middle aged and coming to Inglewood<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the Backstreet Boys or New Kids on the Block (but after the Monkees and the Jackson 5) sent teenage girls screaming for a glimpse of their favorite band, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/menudo.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/menudo.com\/\">Menudo<\/a> took the world by storm. The ever-changing lineup of five boys, serving from around ages 13 to 15, didn\u2019t necessarily know how to sing but had to make fans swoon. More than fifty singers filled the roles over the years, including Ricky Martin and Draco Rosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fall, Menudo embarks on its first-ever reunion tour, celebrating a half-century since the powerhouse band was launched in San Juan, Puerto Rico. By the early 1980s, the boy band was not only filling stadiums around the world but starring in their own TV show, hosting a yearly beauty pageant, and recording music for movies like Cannonball Run 2. They also produced a line of highly lucrative merchandise, from dolls to clothing to a board game called \u201cMenudo Karshow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much ado has been made about the band\u2019s process of replacing singers as they hit puberty and their voices changed, but it was never about the quality of the singing. \u201cI never look for a great voice,\u201d Menudo founder Edgardo Diaz told the Los Angeles Times in 1983. \u201cMenudo is simply a selection of teenagers. They sing real well but only a little bit better than other kids who don\u2019t sing. I want the fans to sing along with them. You can\u2019t do that with superstar voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"823\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304893\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5486875431_bdcf8c4a12_k-1200x823.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5486875431_bdcf8c4a12_k-1200x823.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304893\"  \/>Menudo at Knott\u2019s Berry Farm in Buena Park in the early 1980sCredit: Photo courtesy Orange County Archives<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Menudo, which Billboard, Us Weekly, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue ranked as one of the biggest boy bands of all time, kicks off their first official reunion with the Menudo\u00a050th Anniversary Tour\u00a0in Los Angeles on October 10 at Inglewood\u2019s YouTube Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former members\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Farrait\u00a0(1979\u20131982),\u00a0Roy Rossello\u00a0(1983\u20131986),\u00a0Raymond Acevedo\u00a0(1985\u20131988),\u00a0Sergio Blass\u00a0(1986\u20131990),\u00a0Ralphy Rodr\u00edguez\u00a0(1987),\u00a0Rub\u00e9n G\u00f3mez\u00a0(1987\u20131990), and\u00a0Robert Avellanet\u00a0(1988\u20131991) are coming together once again to inspire a new wave of \u201cMenudomania\u201d around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/0A0064C91ECE9C3A\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/0A0064C91ECE9C3A\">Menudo 50th Anniversary <br \/>October 10<br \/>YouTube Theater, Inglewood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy band is now middle aged and coming to Inglewood Before the Backstreet Boys or New Kids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,151758,151759,124626,151760],"class_list":["post-374523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-menudo","tag-new-kids-on-the-block","tag-the-backstreet-boys","tag-youtube-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}