Kalimete, the stage name of Dominican singer and songwriter Ramfis Reyes, is from Azua in the south of the Dominican Republic and moved to Santo Domingo as a child. Before music became his main career, he stood out in tennis, later forming the duo LG Connection with his brother Gary and then the group 911, which recorded Que lo que ta’ pasando? in the late 1990s. He launched his solo career in the early 2000s with the album Kalimete, shared stages with artists including Daddy Yankee, worked with Wilfrido Vargas, and in 2005 co-founded Sueños Records with his wife Wilda Morel. A bigger breakthrough followed with De Otro Planeta in 2008 and “El Dueño del Asiento,” then with “Ella No Ta’ en Eso,” which spent months on Billboard’s tropical chart and led to a Premio Lo Nuestro nomination in 2014. After a pause, he restarted his recording run in 2019 with “El VIP” and “Suéltala,” followed by “Ella Ya Me Olvidó,” “Maldito Flow,” “Malacorita,” “Desakatao,” the live set Kalimete en Concierto, and the 2023 hit “Bailemos.” In 2024 he released The One, a wide-ranging set that included “Toy Harto,” “Hoy Quiero Bebé,” “Confesiones,” “El Imigrante,” and “Malacorita,” then in 2025 followed with singles such as “Hoy Quiero Bebé” with Chimbala, “Que Onda Perdida,” and “Vamos Pa’ La Playa.” In 2026 he continued that run with “El Que Sabe Sabe” and the EP De Otro Planeta 2026, whose title track revisited one of his signature concepts in a more socially focused key.
