Editing René Farrait

{{Short description|Puerto Rican musician and actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Rene Farrait
| image       = Rene Farrait.jpg
| caption     = Rene Farrait (right, with dark shirt) at [[Phoenix, Arizona]] in 1998
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1967|11|02}}
| birth_place = [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]
| height      = 
| birth_name  = Rene Farrait
| other_names = 
| website     = 
| occupation  = Singer
}}

'''Rene Farrait Nieves''' (born November 2, 1967) is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, and former member of the [[boy band]] [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]].<ref name="dn">{{cite news|title=Original boy band will return with - what else - a reality show|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/reinventing-menudo-original-boy-band-return-reality-show-article-1.602110|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date=16 October 2006|first=Robert|last=Dominguez}}</ref>

After leaving the band, Farrait enjoyed a brief solo career.<ref name="dn"/>

In the 1980s, Rene Farrait reunited with former Menudo bandmates  [[Xavier Serbiá]], [[Ray Reyes]] and [[Johnny Lozada]] (Reyes and Farrait were not Menudo members at the same time) and formed a trio called [[Proyecto M]]. (Reyes replaced Serbiá as a member of Proyecto M).<ref name="dn"/>

In 1998, Farrait joined five other former band members (including Reyes and Lozada) for a comeback tour named ''[[El Reencuentro]]''.<ref name="dn"/>

Following El Reencuentro's break up in 2015, Farrait, along with Reyes and fellow former Menudo members [[Miguel Cancel]], [[Charlie Masso|Charlie Massó]] (who had substituted Farrait as member of Menudo) and [[Robert Avellanet]] returned to touring, this time being allowed to use the name Menudo again but using the name Menudomania Forever.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7317969/menudo-reunion-menudomania-forever-tour-exclusive-video-interview|title=Reunited Members of Menudo on Their Boy Band Days and 'Menudomania Forever' Tour: Exclusive Video|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>

== Acting ==
Farrait participated in a film named [[Menudo: La Pelicula]] along with his Menudo bandmates in 1981. When [[Una aventura llamada Menudo]] was shot in 1982, Farrait had already left the band; substituted by Charlie Massó; nevertheless, he appeared on the background during parts of the film as one of the film's main secondary characters, "Señora Mía", greatly enjoyed the band's last album with Rene on it and had a poster of Rene and his Menudo band-mates in her room.

In 2017, Farrait retook his film career, playing a priest on the [[Peru]]vian film ''[[La paisana Jacinta en búsqueda de Wasaberto]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://diariocorreo.pe/espectaculos/ex-integrante-de-menudo-graba-escenas-de-pelicula-de-la-paisana-jacinta-763548/|title=Ex integrante de Menudo graba escenas de película de la Paisana Jacinta|date=July 23, 2017|website=Diario Correo}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Farrait was married to Carol Maldonado,  and later got divorced. He has three daughters and is currently single.

== In pop culture ==
Farrait is played by [[Alejandro Bermudez (actor)|Alejandro Bermúdez]] in the 2020 Amazon Prime Video series based on Menudo, "[[Súbete a Mi Moto (2020 TV series)|Súbete A Mi Moto]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvynovelas.com/mx/television/menudo-integrantes-subete-a-mi-moto-reparto-serie-amazon-prime-video/ |title=¿Quiénes son los integrantes de Menudo y reparto de Súbete A Mi Moto? |website=www.tvynovelas.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021002610/https://www.tvynovelas.com/mx/television/menudo-integrantes-subete-a-mi-moto-reparto-serie-amazon-prime-video/ |archive-date=2020-10-21}}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== With Menudo ===
* ''[[Chiquitita (album)|Chiquitita]]'' (1979)
* ''Felicidades'' (1979)
* ''Mas Mucho Mas'' (1980)
* ''Es Navidad'' (1980)
* ''[[Fuego (Menudo album)|Fuego]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Xanadu (Menudo album)|Xanadu]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Quiero Ser]]'' (1981)

=== With Proyecto M ===
* ''Proyecto M'' (1987)
* ''Proyecto M 2'' (1989)
* ''Arde que me quemas'' (1991)
* ''Si esta no Conmigo'' (1993)

== See also ==
* [[List of Puerto Ricans]]

== References ==
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