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Legendaddy (album)
''Legendaddy'' (stylized in all caps) is the eighth and final studio album by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, released on March 24, 2022 by El Cartel Records, Universal Music Group and Republic Records. Published 10 years after his previous studio album, ''Legendaddy'' is Daddy Yankee's last record, as he announced that he would retire from music after the end of his farewell concert tour, La Última Vuelta, in 2023. He decided to retire while working on the album, as he felt accomplished and wanted to enjoy everything he had achieved with his career. It is his first and only album released directly under Universal, rather than its Latin division, after signing a multimillionaire global distribution deal in 2020. Daddy Yankee described its themes as "fight, party, war and romance." Musically, ''Legendaddy'' is primarily a reggaeton record that incorporates trap and elements of salsa, bachata, cumbia, dembow and electronic dance music. He co-wrote and co-produced all 1 ...
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Daddy Yankee
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez (born February 3, 1976), known professionally as Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, composer, and actor. Known as the " King of Reggaetón" by music critics and fans alike, he is the artist who coined the word ''reggaeton'' in 1991 in the mixtape Playero 34 in the song "So persigueme, no te detengas" to describe the new music genre that was emerging from Puerto Rico that synthesized American hip-hop, Hispanic Caribbean music, and Jamaican reggae rhythms with Spanish rapping and singing. He is often cited as an influence by other Hispanic urban performers. Ayala was born in Río Piedras and was raised in the Villa Kennedy Housing Projects neighborhood. He aspired to be a professional baseball player and tried out for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. Before he could be officially signed, he was hit by a stray round from an AK-47 rifle while taking a break from a studio recording session with reggaeton artist DJ Playero. Ayal ...
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Hot (Daddy Yankee Song)
"Hot" is a song by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee with Cuban-American rapper Pitbull. It was released on March 24, 2022, simultaneously with Daddy Yankee's eighth and final studio album, ''Legendaddy'', among various other singles from the record. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Venezuelan director Daniel Durán. It was written by Daddy Yankee, Pitbull, Mexican producer David "Scott Summers" Macías, Puerto Rican producer Ovimael "OMB" Maldonado and American production duo Play-N-Skillz members Juan Salinas and Oscar Salinas. It was produced by Daddy Yankee, Play-N-Skillz and Scott Summers. Mexican disc jockey DJ Morphius and American production duo Muzik Junkies received production and songwriting credits for the use of the beat of their song "Trompeta y Guaracha" (2019). "Hot" has been described as an "EDM fusion" and received mostly negative reviews from music critis. Commercially, it reached number 15 in Honduras, 23 on the US Hot Latin Songs chart, 32 on the ...
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Dembow
Dembow is a Dominican musical genre that can be traced to a riddim that originated in Jamaican dancehall. When Shabba Ranks released "Dem Bow" in 1990, it did not take long for the dembow genre to form. Riddims were built from the song and the sound became a popular part of reggaeton. From there it took off in Dominican Republic creating the sound UNDERWORLD ("Bajo Mundo" in Spanish). It hit the streets of New York and from there it made its way to all of Latin America. The Dominican Dembow sound keeps evolving and has been fusioned with Trap music since 2016 and it's also fused with Bachata and Merengue from the Dominican Republic. Dembow artists are called "Dembowseros" Characteristics The main element of dembow music is its rhythm, which is somewhat reminiscent of reggaeton and dancehall music, but with a more constant rhythm and faster beats per minute than reggaeton. Rhythm and melodies in dembow tend to be simple and repetitive. See also *Reggaeton *Latin trap *Tres ...
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Cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans. Examples include: * Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from Colombia. It has elements of three different cultures, American Indigenous, African, and Spanish, being the result of the long and intense meeting of these cultures during the Conquest and the Colony. * Panamanian cumbia, Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by enslaved people of African descent during colonial times and later syncretized with American Indigenous and European cultural elements. Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia Argentina * Argentine cumbia * Cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums * Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico * Cumbia santafesina, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, ...
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Bachata (music)
Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century. It is a fusion of southwestern European influences, mainly Spanish guitar music, with indigenous Taino and Sub Saharan African musical elements, representative of the cultural diversity of the Dominican population. The first recorded compositions of bachata was done by José Manuel Calderón in 1962 ("Borracho de amor") from the Dominican Republic. Bachata originates from bolero and son (and later, from the mid-1980s, merengue). The original term used to name the genre was ''amargue'' ("bitterness", "bitter music" or "blues music"), until the mood-neutral term ''bachata'' became popular. The form of dance, bachata, also developed with the music.Pacini Hernandez, Deborah"Brief history of Bachata" ''Bachata, A social history of a Dominican popular music'', 1995, Temple University Press. Retrieved on December 4, 2008 Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country. Du ...
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Salsa Music
Salsa music is a style of Latin American music. Because most of the basic musical components predate the labeling of salsa, there have been many controversies regarding its origin. Most songs considered as salsa are primarily based on son montuno, with elements of Mambo (music), mambo, Latin jazz, Bomba (Puerto Rico), bomba, plena and guaracha. All of these elements are adapted to fit the basic son montuno template when performed within the context of salsa. Originally the name salsa was used to label commercially several styles of Latin dance music, but nowadays it is considered a musical style on its own and one of the staples of Latin American culture. The first self-identified salsa bands were predominantly assembled by Cubans, Cuban and Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican musicians in New York City in the '70s. The music style was based on the late son montuno of Arsenio Rodríguez, Conjunto Chappottín and Roberto Faz. These musicians included Celia Cruz, Willie ColónRuben Blade ...
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton (, ), also known as reggaetón and reguetón (), is a music style that originated in Panama during the late 1980s. It was later popularized in Puerto Rico. It has evolved from dancehall and has been influenced by American Hip hop music, hip hop, Latin American music, Latin American, and Caribbean music. Vocals include rapping and singing, typically in Spanish. Reggaeton is regarded as one of the most popular music genres in the Caribbean Spanish, Spanish-speaking Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela. Over the 2010s, the genre has seen increased popularity across Latin America, as well as acceptance within Pop music, mainstream Western music. Etymology The word ''reggaeton'' (formed from the word ''reggae'' plus the augmentative suffix ) was first used in 1988 when El General's representative Michael Ellis gave it that name to describe it as "''reggae grande''" (big reggae). The spellings ''reggaeton'' and ''r ...
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La Última Vuelta World Tour
La Última Vuelta World Tour was the eighth and farewell concert tour by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Daddy Yankee, in support of his seventh and final studio album ''Legendaddy'' (2022). Comprising 89 shows, the tour began on July 16, 2022 in Torremolinos, Spain and concluded on December 22, 2022 in Miami, Florida. It visited North America twice while making a one-month-lasting stop in South America, as well as a single European show in Spain as part of a music festival. Initially, the tour was planned to end on January 8, 2023 with three sold out shows in Puerto Rico at Estadio Hiram Bithorn, commemorated 30 years of a shooting incident that occurred on January 6, 1993, which allowed Daddy Yankee to focus entirely on his music career due to a bullet wound that ended his dream of becoming a professional baseball player. However, the concerts were cancelled due to logistical problems. Eventually, the concerts were rescheduled to be at Coliseo de Puerto Rico and were renamed a ...
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Prestige (album)
''Prestige'' is the seventh studio album and eleventh overall by Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer-songwriter Daddy Yankee. It was released through El Cartel Records and Sony Music on September 11, 2012. It was produced by Los de la Nazza, Los De La Nazza and Musicologo & Menes. The album explores music genres as of EDM, Dancepop, Latin Pop and Electropop and essential reggaeton. According to Yankee himself, "Prestige is best and most complete album". The album met with positive reviews and it receive a nomination for Best Urban Album at the 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards and for Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year, Urban Album of the Year at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2013, Lo Nuestro Awards of 2013. The album was supported by six single (music), singles, the lead, "Ven Conmigo (Daddy Yankee song), Ven Conmigo", which won Lo Nuestro Award for Collaboration of the Year, Collaboration of the Year at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2012, Lo Nuestro Awards 2012. This was f ...
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the " Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The company went public on September 21, 2021, at a valuation of €46 billion. In 2019, ''Fast Company'' named Universal Music Group the most innovative music company and listed UMG among the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world and "amid the music industry's digital tran ...
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All Caps
In typography, all caps (short for "all capitals") refers to text or a font in which all letters are capital letters, for example: "THIS TEXT IS IN ALL CAPS". All caps may be used for emphasis (for a word or phrase). They are commonly seen in legal documents, the titles on book covers, in advertisements and in newspaper headlines. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym. Studies have been conducted on the readability and legibility of all caps text. Scientific testing from the 20th century onward has generally indicated that all caps text is less legible and readable than lower-case text. In addition, switching to all caps may make text appear hectoring and obnoxious for cultural reasons, since all-capitals is often used in transcribed speech to indicate that the speaker is shouting. All-caps text i ...
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Pasatiempo (song)
"Pasatiempo" (English: "Pastime") is a song by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee featuring compatriot rapper Myke Towers, released as the fifth single from the former's eighth and final studio album, ''Legendaddy'', on July 28, 2022. Its music video was directed by José Sagaró, was shot in Puerto Rico and depicts both artists performing at a house party, around a bonfire and in a "black and white minimalistic setting", incorporating "vintage elements". The song was written by Daddy Yankee, Myke Towers, Puerto Rican rapper Pusho, Monique Fonseca, Puerto Rican producers Ángel "JBD" Barbosa and Ovimael "OMB" Maldonado and American production duo Play-N-Skillz, while American producers and lyricists Allen George and Fred McFarlane received songwriting credits for the use of " Show Me Love" (1990) by American singer Robin S., whose 1992 remix version by Swedish producer StoneBridge is sampled on the track. It was produced by Daddy Yankee, Play-N-Skillz and JBD. It is a reggaeton son ...
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