Quintanilla, Irvin "Pee Wee" Salinas, and Chris Pérez also decided to leave the group due to "internal dissension" and joined Los Kumbia All Starz, formed by A.B.
Los Kumbia Kings 1999 debut album, Amor, Familia y Respeto, immediately sold over 500,000 copies and earned them a Grammy nomination.
Latin stars, such as Aleks Syntek, El Gran Silencio, Juan Gabriel, and the Grammy winning group Ozomatli brought extra dimension to the Kings' already encompassing style.
In late 2006 it was revealed that Quintanilla and co-founder Cruz Martinez had a falling out pertaining to financial inequities found through audits of the groups finances.
Martinez and the remaining members continued touring and performing through early 2007, when ownership of the name and branding of "Kumbia Kings" became a point of legal contention between the groups co-founders.
As a remedy to lawsuits filed by Quintinalla and Martinez both agreed to surrender usage of the name "Kumbia Kings" to avoid costly litigation.
Subsequently, both artists would go on to form respective musical groups that emulated much of formula that powered the Kumbia Kings to international success.
In the summer of 2018 joined by a cast of original band members and revolving musicians Cruz Martinez again began to tour and perform under the Kumbia King banner thorough out the festival market in Mexico.
As part of the original agreement with Quintanilla neither of the groups co-founders can market or profit off the name Kumbia Kings in the United States but it did not apply to the country of Mexico and South America.
And in a surprising move, Martínez lured original Kumbia Kings members Alex and Roy Ramírez (who were also working with their own group Kingz One) to help him out with the project.
Los Super Reyes, following their huge success on the debut album, continued to tour Latin America and, for the first time in Kumbia Kings history, headed to Japan in October 2008 and Spain in November 2008 due to the international hit "Muévelo" which has also certified the group for platinum and gold record sales between the United States and Mexico.