Ron Reyes

Ron Reyes
Reyes performing with Black Flag in 2013
Reyes performing with Black Flag in 2013
Background information
Born (1960-07-24) July 24, 1960 (age 64)[1]
Puerto Rico[2]
GenresPunk rock, hardcore punk
OccupationMusician
Instrument(s)Vocals, drums, guitar, bass
Years active1980–present
LabelsSST

Ron Reyes (born July 24, 1960)[1][2][3] is an American musician most noted as the second singer for the Los Angeles punk rock group Black Flag, which he fronted from 1979 to 1980 and again in 2013.

Reyes joined Black Flag after original vocalist Keith Morris had quit to form the Circle Jerks. Black Flag needed a singer to go on a tour to Vancouver, Canada, and asked Reyes to fill in.[4] Reyes is the singer on the Jealous Again EP, and is the vocalist in the film The Decline of Western Civilization. He left the band due to the violence at Black Flag shows. 33 years after leaving the band, Reyes reunited with Black Flag in 2013 for an album, the band's first in 28 years, and tour followed that same year with Reyes being fired mid-show during a performance in Australia.

Reyes started his band Piggy in 2011. And also was the guest lead vocalist for Whidbey Island Washington's POTBELLY on a split 7-inch with Montana's Bath Salts Brigade in 2018. He performed only once with Potbelly.

  1. ^ a b Beadle, Scott. "Ron Reyes 50th Birthday Celebration with the Jolts, Ron Reyes Band, Modernettes, Little Guitar Army, and I Braineater – Rickshaw Theatre (Vancouver BC), July 24, 2010". The Big Takeover. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Stavans, Ilan (July 29, 2014). Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 627. ISBN 978-0-313-34396-4. Retrieved June 18, 2016. Black Flag, the Los Angeles group often credited with having invented hardcore, featured a pair of Latino musicians: Puerto Rican singer Ron Reyes, who went by the name of 'Chavo Pederast', and Colombian drummer Roberto Valverde, who called himself 'Robo'
  3. ^ Avant-Mier, Roberto (May 6, 2010). Rock the Nation: Latin/o Identities and the Latin Rock Diaspora. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-4411-6797-2. Retrieved June 18, 2016. Puerto Rican Ron Reyes was at one time a member of Black Flag
  4. ^ Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 1, 2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2. Retrieved August 10, 2017.