"Reach" is a song by Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

, released as a single in 1996, and taken from her seventh studio album Destiny

Destiny (Gloria Estefan album)

Destiny is the seventh studio solo album released by American singer Gloria Estefan, but is the nineteenth of her career overall. It was released in 1996.-Album history:...

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Estefan, together with nine other Latino artists, also recorded a Spanish version

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 of the song entitled 'Puedes Llegar'.

Song history

"Reach" was one of two official songs of the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 held in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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 in 1996. It was written by Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

 and Diane Warren

Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...

. A Spanish version of the song was recorded under the name of "Puedes Llegar"; for this version various artists collaborated on the song, those were: Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...

, Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...

, Jon Secada

Jon Secada

Jon Secada is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion...

, Alejandro Fernández

Alejandro Fernández

Alejandro Fernández is a Mexican singer. Nicknamed as "El Potrillo" by the media and his fans, he has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Alejandro is the son of the ranchera singer Vicente Fernández. He originally specialized in traditional, earthy forms of Mexican folk music, such as...

, Roberto Carlos

Roberto Carlos (singer)

Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....

, Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

, José Luis Rodríguez

José Luis Rodríguez

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, Patricia Sosa and Carlos Vives

Carlos Vives

Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Colombian singer, composer and actor.-Biography:...

. This version can be found on the Spanish version of the Olympics compilation album Voces Unidas.

The song was nominated to a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...

 at the ceremony at 1997, but she lost out to Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...

's "Un-Break My Heart

Un-Break My Heart

"Un-Break My Heart" is a song by American recording artist Toni Braxton from her second studio album, Secrets . Written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster, the ballad was released as the album's second single...

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Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Reach".

U.S. CD Maxi Single (49K 78286)

1. "Reach" (Album Version)
2. "Reach" (Love To Infinitiy's Radio Master Mix)
3. "Reach" (Love To Infinity's Walk In The Park Radio Mix)
4. "Reach" (Higher Radio Mix)
5. "Reach" (Gold Medal Mix)
6. "Reach" (Higher Club Mix Vox Up)
7. "Abriendo Puertas" (Africuba Mix)

UK CD1

1. "Reach" (Album Version)
2. "Reach" (Gold Medal Mix)
3. "Reach" (Higher Radio Mix)
4. "Tres Deseos" (Rosabel's Fiesta Mix)

UK CD2

1. "Reach" (Love To Infinity's Walk In The Park Radio Mix)
2. "Reach" (Love To Infinitiy's Pure & Free Mix)
3. "Reach" (Love To Infinity's Master Mix)
4. "Reach" (Love To Infinity's Aphrodisiac Mix)
5. "Reach" (Higher Club Mix Vox Up)
6. "Reach" (Album Version)

Europe CD Single (663025 1)

1. "Reach" (Album Version)
2. "Reach" (Gold Medal Single Edit)

Release history

Region	Date
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Europe

Charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Australia Top 40 Singles Chart	23
Colombia Top 40 Singles Chart	1
Eurochart Top 100	64
Finland Top 40 Singles Chart	17
Germany Top 100 Singles Chart	58
Spain Top 40 Singles Chart	2
Sweden Top 60 Singles Chart	19
UK Top 75 Singles Chart	15
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	42
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales	11
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	5
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 Singles	29
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks	2

Official versions

Original versions

1. Album Version - 3:50
2. Single Version - 3:50 (w/o Chorus Ending)

Remixes

1. Gold Medal Mix - 6:46
2. Gold Medal Single Edit - 4:43
3. Love To Infinity's Master Mix - 5:00
4. Love To Infinity's Pure & Free Mix - 6:27
5. Love To Infinitiy's Radio Master Mix - 4:18
6. Love To Infinity's Walk In The Park Radio Mix - 4:12
7. Love To Infinity's Walk In The Park Mix - 6:27
8. Love To Infinity's Aphrodisiac Mix - 6:58
9. Higher Radio Mix - 3:50
10. Higher Club Mix (Vox Up) - 10:42
11. Higher Club Mix - 10:42
12. Reachin' Dub - 8:10
13. Dubstrumental - 7:30

Covers

• In 2007, pop girl group Girl Authority
  Girl Authority
  Girl Authority is an American pop girl group from Massachusetts.The group consists of nine girls, ranging in ages 11 to 16. The group was established in the summer of 2005 by the group's vocal coach/executive producer Samantha Hammel, Scott Billington and the CEO of Rounder Records John Virant.All...
  
   covered it on their second album, Road Trip
  Road Trip (album)
  Road Trip is the second album from Girl Authority. Unlike the first album, Road Trip is a mixture of cover songs and original songs performed by Girl Authority...
  
  .
• In 2007 the Brazilian singer Marina Elali  covered the song for the soap opera Sete Pecados .
• For the Asian Idol
  Asian Idol
  Asian Idol is a reality singing competition, which featured winners of Idol competitions from six Southeast and South Asian countries consisting of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam...
  
  finals, Mau Marcelo
  Mau Marcelo
  Maureen "Mau" Flores Marcelo is a Filipina Puertorican R&B soul singer who rose to prominence as the first winner of Philippine Idol in 2006. She was dubbed as the "Soul Idol" and "The Black Belter" at the competition for her R&B-style vocals...
  
   of the Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  sang this song.