Daddy Yankee Helped Make Reggaeton Mainstream

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Daddy Yankee’s music has reached the world stage, and he has become an internationally recognized artist. His commercial success and international fame have earned him millions of YouTube views. His clothing line, DY, has been a great success, and he’s partnered with major companies including Reebok. He also has an endorsement deal with Pepsi and has joined the Cardenas Marketing Network. These partnerships have helped Daddy Yankee expands his popularity. While Daddy Yankee has achieved worldwide fame, he remains humble.

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All of a sudden, a gunfight broke out, and Ayala was hit with a stray bullet. Though the incident effectively ended his baseball career, it ultimately pushed him to dedicate his life to music. “I thank God for that bullet,” he has said before.

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In 2017, he collaborated with Latin singer Luis Fonsi for the single “Despacito” which turned out to be a global hit. The music video of the song received over a billion views on YouTube and become the most-watched video in YouTube history ever. Daddy Yankee expressed that all music has something good to give, even urban music. Reggaeton originated in Panama as Afro-diasporic music.

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He was focused on baseball for most of his adolescence — he played third base, and came close to signing with the Seattle Mariners — but he was also surrounded by music. His dad was a percussionist for salsa bands on the island, and his mom came from a family of musicians. Ayala sang as a kid, and learned he had a knack for improvisation during Christmas celebrations in Puerto Rico.

He sits down, he hits the keyboard sometimes with us. He’s like, ‘These are the chords, change the drums.’ His musical genius is way beyond just a rapper rapping 16 bars, or a singer belting a song.” “Play” and his brother Oscar “Skillz” Salinas ended up co-producing six tracks on the album, which went platinum in the U.S. With it, Yankee irrevocably altered the sound and business of Latin music, not only propelling the rise of a genre that today is a global phenomenon, but quite literally building it from the ground up. He set the standards for everything from how reggaetoneros dressed to how their music was created to the way the genre’s biggest artists negotiated collaborations and song splits.

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But the business is flexible, and I’m flexible in many areas. I understand that sometimes, we’re talking about cultural moments rather than simply chart position. “China” [Anuel’s hit featuring Karol G, J Balvin, Ozuna and Yankee] is a good example.

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During a press conference earlier this year, Daddy Yankee announced the physical release of King Daddy scheduled for later this year with 3 or 4 bonus tracks for a total of 14 or 15 songs included. On February 25, 2013, Daddy Yankee performed in the 2013 Viña del Mar International Song Festival, to a sold-out audience.[58] He performed hits like "Limbo", "Gasolina", "Pose", "Ella Me Levantó" and "Descontrol". He won the Silver and Golden Torch and the Silver and Golden Seagull recognitions. In 2013, Daddy Yankee performed on his Prestige World Tour, touring several countries in Europe including, Spain, Germany, France and Italy. He has also toured in Colombia, Peru, Chile to sold-out audiences. In 2013 he released music videos of "El Amante" featuring J Alvarez, "Summertime" and "Noche de los Dos" featuring Natalia Jimenez, with millions of views on YouTube.

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His official first studio project as a solo artist “No Mercy” was released in 1995. His album ‘Barrio Fino” breaks the record and became the top-selling album of the decade. In his early days, he also followed a rap style and soon became a traditional rapper.

2006: Barrio Fino and "Gasolina"

We got our start singing in fiestas patronales [patron-saint celebrations common in Puerto Rico] at the housing projects. We had zero support or marketing and we were always the hit of the party. That’s when I realized we had something powerful in our hands. Other people didn’t get it, but I did, because I’d been a big fan of ’80s rap – Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J — since I was a kid, and the same thing that had happened with rap was happening here, with us. He has donated more than 10 million dollars to different causes. The singer was the first Latin artist to be listened to the most on YouTube.

Once Ayala met up with Salinas in Miami, they went to work every day at 3 p.m. “We didn’t go out, we didn’t fuck around,” Salinas says. “I like to drink and party while I make music … but there’s a limit [with Daddy Yankee] because he likes to be on point.” In between songs, they blew off steam by playing basketball or video games — all of which brought out Ayala’s intensely competitive side.

This is a hard topic to broach with artists, because they often know so little about the music business. The way I explain it is, “Papi, I’m not asking for more than I’m worth. Now, you want me on your album, I like to collaborate, but I don’t like to give away what’s mine.

Together with rapper and lyricist Eddie Dee, they fleshed out a track, adding the sound of gunning motors in the introduction along with Yankee’s rapid-fire verses and, atop Luny’s thumping, aggressive beat, that earworm of a refrain that sounded like a schoolyard taunt. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution.

After you have shaped the edges, you need to finish your haircut by styling it like Daddy Yankee. Even though he has a bald fade buzz cut, it has a certain style you need to mimic. You can use an electric razor as well to get it done. Then use that guideline to create the bald fade with no guard on the clipper.

She joined the Puerto Rican singer on a new remixed version of "Con Calma," out today, which also features reggae musician Snow. She says a lot of popular reggaeton artists don't fit the 'Latin look,' but that those who do can more easily break into mainstream American music. Ayala has kept most of his personal life private, rarely speaking about it in interviews. He met his wife when they were little and at just 17 years old they decided to get married. The audience screams as a giant blue clock begins counting down the seconds until the show starts. When it finally hits zero, the climactic beat of “Campeón,” from his new album, starts.