EmmaKings pitched left-handed in the Toronto Blue Jays organization before he sang bachata for a living. Born Emmanuel Reyes Evangelista in Santo Domingo in 1997, he signed with the Blue Jays as a teenager, spent three seasons in their rookie-level clubs in the Dominican Republic and Florida, and was released without reaching the majors. He started releasing music in 2019.
His first credit came in 2020 on Wilmore "Bimbo" Franco's Classic American Tunes In Bachata, an album of American songs rebuilt as bachata by a guitarist who has played with Aventura and Romeo Santos. His own run of singles followed: "Ella" and "¿Que Tengo Que Hacer?" in 2020, "Me Enamoré" as a duet with Scarlet Evang in 2021, "Jangueo" in 2022, then "Regresa" and "Traicionera" in 2024. He works in singles, not albums, and the sound leans hard on the guitar figures of modern bachata even when the writing is closer to Latin pop. In 2022 he sang Marc Anthony's "Flor Pálida" at the blind auditions of the second season of The Voice Dominicana.