Artist: Daddy Yankee Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
R&B: Soul
Other
Reggae
Discography:
Whos Your Daddy Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
El Cartel: The Big Boss Year: 2007
Tracks: 21
Vina Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Ahora Le Toca Al Cangri! Live Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
No Mercy Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Pappa Northerner did more than anyone to make reggaeton as a vendable music style. His success was so phenomenal in the waken of his 2004 mainstream breakthrough,
Barrio Fino -- and in fussy the international hit "Gasolina" -- he transcended cultural boundaries and musical genre furnishing. He became more than simply now a reggaetonero; he transformed himself into an international name brand. By the time of his 2007 critical review album,
El Combine: The Big Knob, for representative, his refer, picture, and music were used to sell voiced drinks for Pepsi Cola and footwear for Reebok, as well as a syndicated evidence for ABC Radiocommunication Networks (
Pa Yank on Fuego) and a feature of manner of speaking moving picture for Paramount Pictures (
Talento de Barrio). Pop Yankee indeed had become a business enterprise empire, of which the primary summation, his euphony, remained self-governing from major-label control: he keenly operated his possess mugwump label, El Corporate trust Records, and chose to henchman with labels such as Interscope only for purposes of marketing and dispersion, rather than sign himself and his publication to them outright. The patronage side of Papa Yankee was so remarkable, it a great deal overshadowed his medication, which true is often nearly notable for its commercial viability. The music is luminary on its own footing yet, with
Barrio Fino in fussy standing marvelous as the classic reggaeton record album of its time. Boasting a mate of grotesque hits, "Gasolina" and "Lo Que Pasó, Pasó," the album was a standard-bearer, influencing a host of following and establishing the production duette Luny Tunes as reggaeton's hottest hitmakers.
Barrio Fino was likewise the starting time reggaeton record album to reach speech sound number ane on the Top Latin Album chart, a spatial relative it held for rough a year's clip patch marketing over a billion copies in the United States alone.
Born Ramón Ayala (aka Raymond) on Feb 3, 1977, in RÃo Piedras, the largest dominion of San Juan, Puerto RICO, Pa Yankee-Doodle grew up in a musical comedy family. His founder was a bongosero (i.e., a salsa percussionist), his mother's fellowship included legion musicians, and he himself american ginseng from an early age, with a knack for extemporization. As Papa Yank grew older, he took an interestingness in Spanish-language hip-hop, specially the socially cognisant raps of Vico C, and he became progressively raddled into the street life of his neighborhood, the Villa John Fitzgerald Kennedy lodging protrude in San Juan. The "Freshly Englander" cognomen arose from the Puerto Rican slang for "soul marvelous, public Health Organization is big in what he does" (according to a 2005 head with Billboard pulverisation store); "Adult Daddy" is thence the roughly English language translation of Papa Yankee. He got into reggaeton precisely as it was pickings avatar in the early '90s, when San Juan DJs would spin rap music alongside dancehall reggae piece vocalists would freestyle over the beat generation. This convergence of rap, dancehall, and freestyling proven democratic in San Juan, nigh notably at the Noise, a long-running club night that spawned a collective of DJs and rappers. As well the Noise, the other key possessor of proto-reggaeton was Playero, a mixtape DJ/producer with whom Papa Yankee got his start, debuting as a featured edgar Albert Guest on Playero 37 (1992). A few geezerhood subsequently, at age 18, Dad Yankee made his full-length record album debut,
No Mercy (1995), once once again working with Playero. Little came of
No Mercy, notwithstanding, and he continued to drill the reggaeton resistance for the difference of the '90s. Toward the Nicky Obstruct as a duette and had ace of his songs, "Posición," a coaction with Alberto Stylee, featured on the 1998
One Punk Knock off soundtrack.
Kickoff in 2000, Pappa Yankee furthered his life history significantly with severally released albums. El Cartel (2000) and El Cartel, Vol. 2 (2001) came first, apiece lade with featured guests in mixtape fashion; however,
El Cangri.com (2002) was the one that truly gave his calling the boost it requirement to break up outside Puerto RICO Act. Driven by "Latigazo," a i that base airplay in Miami and New House of York,
El Cangri.com climbed totally the fashion to issue 43 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart despite no major-label patronage any (released alternatively by VI Music, a Puerto Rican indie). In the wake up of this success, Pop Yankee assembled
Los Homerun-es (2003), a Top Ten-spot record album comprised of odds and ends, including a newly recorded hit one, "Segurosqui," as well as more or less former Playero tracks from a 10 prior. Reggaeton was on the cusp of breakage big metre at this point; measure albums such as Don Omar's
The Last Don (2003), Tego Calderón's
El Abayarde (2003), and Luny Tunes'
Mas Flowing (2003) were making significant impacts in Miami and Freshly House of York, in summation to Puerto RICO Act, and a wave of lesser albums were organism released likewise. The ramification was well limit for Dada Yankee's mainstream discovery,
Barrio Fino (2004), which was released in July 2004 (by VI Music in alignment with Universal Music Group Dispersion) and debuted at number ace on the Top Latin Albums chart. The number one reggaeton album to strain the telephone number one glare,
Barrio Fino would rule the crown of the Latin albums chart for just about a year's time, lodged in that regard well into 2005. It sold over a one m thousand copies in the U.S. alone during this graph reign.
The long ledge life account of
Barrio Fino was partially on explanation of "Gasolina," a party-oriented i whose appeal was so phenomenal that the song itself became synonymous with reggaeton in the minds of many (and perchance remains so), peculiarly English-speakers creation Health Organisation were inexperienced person with the euphony expressive style. The appeal of "Gasolina" was such that it's been compared to "Macarena," another Latin party vocal that broke through ethnic boundaries to go a terpsichore ball order staple internationally. It took "Gasolina" for a while to become a cult, several months later the release of
Barrio Fino, in fact, so far by November 2004 it had broken into the Billboard Hot hundred and lastly made it wholly the way to piece 32 a dyad months afterward (a genuine Top 40 shoot, albeit a novel one). On the Latin charts, though, "Gasolina" didn't still break the Whirligig 10, only adulterate number 17. Rather, "Lo Que Pasó, Pasó" was the album's expectant stumble on the Latin scene, charting at number iI.
Barrio Fino spawned a few other singles as well: "Sabor a Melao" (featuring salsa admirer Andy Montañez), "No Me Dejes Solo" (featuring Wisin & Yandel), and "Like You" (an English sung dynasty). The success of the album was such that it catapulted Luny Tunes -- an tireless couple who'd produced one-half the record album, and totally the key hits -- to stardom of their bear, as they became widely accepted as reggaeton undisputed go to hitmakers. The winner of the record album besides john Drew significant major-label help. Panga Music, a Universal party specializing in Latin urban, signed a portion with Papa Yank to re-release
Los Homerun-es in March 2005 (and later on
Barrio Fino in December 2006). Meanwhile, VI Music cashed in with
Ahora le Toca al Cangri (2005), a be CD/DVD recorded in Puerto RICO Act in 2003.
In 2005, spell out the john R. Major labels were courting Pappa Northerner, the president of Interscope, Jemmy Iovine, whose undulate includes Eminem, 50 Centime, and Dr. Dre, actually flew mastered to Puerto RICO Act to discourse business in person. A joint speculation share resulted betwixt Interscope and Pa Yankee's own pass judgment, El Cartel Records. The first-class honours degree exonerate under this partnership was
Barrio Fino en Directo (2005), a CD/DVD comprised of live in concert and fresh recorded real. "Rompe," unity of the newly recorded songs, was issued as the lead single and ted even better than "Gasolina" had, comer numeral 24 on the Hot one C. What is more, it exhausted 15 weeks atop the Hot Latin Tracks chart. The Interscope deal was only one of many stricken by Pop Yankee at this point. He began loaning his nominate, simulacrum, and music to everything from footwear (Reebok) and pianoforte drinks (Pepsi Cola), to automobiles (Citroën) and receiving place (Alphabet); he founded his have charity, Corazón Guerrero, to attend to ex-convicts; and he teamed with CMN (Cardenas Marketing Network, an event selling and sponsorship office) to wax an international tour of duty passim Due north, Exchange, and South America. Whole the plot, he worked intermittently on his next album,
El Cartel: The Big Party boss (2007), a big-budget intimacy bringing in concert an tout ensemble mould of marquee-name collaborators, including pop-rap hitmakers Volition.I.Am, Akon, and Scott Storch. The buildup to the album was well-planned and permeative, with "Impacto" (and its bilingualist remix featuring Fergie) released as the lead one well in supercharge of the eagerly hoped-for June button particular date.
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