Nayer Regalado, known mononymously as Nayer, is an American singer. She gained recognition in 2011 after being featured on
Pitbull
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's hit single "
Give Me Everything
"Give Me Everything" is a song by American rapper and singer Pitbull featuring Dutch DJ Afrojack & fellow American singers Ne-Yo and Nayer. Written by the former three and produced by Afrojack, it was released on March 18 2011, through Polo Grou ...
", and releasing her single "
Suave (Kiss Me)" featuring Pitbull and
Mohombi
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which was a success in Europe and the Middle East. Her other known collaborations include songs with
Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He gained fame for his songwriting abilities when he penned Mario's 2004 hit " Let Me Love You ...
,
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the ...
,
Lil Wayne
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,
Usher,
Fonseca,
Juan Magan
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, Yomil (of the Cuban duo Yomil y el Dany),
Jean-Roch
Jean-Roch Pédri, known as just Jean-Roch (born 3 October 1966 in Toulon, France), is a French singer-songwriter and DJ/producer of electronic music and the founder of "Vip Room". He is also founder of the record label John-Roch Records.
Career
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and
Melissa
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''Melissa'' also refers to the plant ''Me ...
.
Career
Nayer was discovered by Cuban-American rapper
Pitbull
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whom she had the opportunity to do a collaboration with a few years back while signed to Sony. She immediately started working with producers on her music and songwriting. While in the process she appeared on various videos of the rapper from his albums ''
Rebelution'', ''
Armando'' (2010) and ''
Planet Pit
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'' (2011), such as "
I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
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" and "
Shut It Down" (feat.
Akon
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). She then did a joint venture with
RedOne. Nayer was also featured on Enrique Iglesias' single "
Dirty Dancer
"Dirty Dancer" is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias and American singer Usher, recorded for Iglesias' sixth studio album, '' Euphoria'', and included on Usher's EP '' Versus''. A remix of the song, which features American rapper Lil ...
(Remix)" along
Usher and
Lil Wayne
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, and she held a cameo appearance in Enrique Iglesias' "
I Like How It Feels
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" music video.
She was also a featured artist on Pitbull's smash "
Give Me Everything
"Give Me Everything" is a song by American rapper and singer Pitbull featuring Dutch DJ Afrojack & fellow American singers Ne-Yo and Nayer. Written by the former three and produced by Afrojack, it was released on March 18 2011, through Polo Grou ...
", along with
Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He gained fame for his songwriting abilities when he penned Mario's 2004 hit " Let Me Love You ...
and
Afrojack
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. Nayer was nominated in 2012 for MTV Video Music Award as Best Collaboration, and up for four Latin Billboard Nominations in 2013 with "Give Me Everything", being the 2nd female to have the most Nominations.
On August 2, 2011, the singer released her single, a song titled "
Suave (Kiss Me)", which features Pitbull and Swedish-Congolese singer
Mohombi
Mohombi Nzasi Moupondo (born 17 October 1986) is a Congolese-Swedish musician, singer, composer and dancer. He grew up in Norsborg and Kista near Stockholm. Mohombi was RedOne's first signing to 2101 Records in joint venture with Universal Mu ...
.
She then joined as opening act Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull on the "Euphoria Tour" across the U.S., Europe and Canada.
During 2011 and 2012, Nayer was working on her debut album with
RedOne but the project was never released. In 2012, a "promo" video appeared on the Internet. In this video, Nayer talked about recording her album and played snippets of 3 new songs: "Wet", "Love Drum", "Body Talk" (featuring
Jason Derulo
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In 2012, Nayer was featured in the official remix of
Fonseca's single "
Eres Mi Sueño
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" and on
Jean-Roch
Jean-Roch Pédri, known as just Jean-Roch (born 3 October 1966 in Toulon, France), is a French singer-songwriter and DJ/producer of electronic music and the founder of "Vip Room". He is also founder of the record label John-Roch Records.
Career
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's single "
Name of Love
"Name of Love" is a song by French DJ Jean-Roch with vocals by Cuban-American artists Pitbull and Nayer. It was released on February 10, 2012 on the label named "John-Roch Records". This song was produced by RedOne.
Music video
The music vide ...
".
After going independent in 2013, Nayer changed the direction of her album to urban. In September 2013, she announced a collaboration with rapper
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titled "Thirsty". The song was released for free on
SoundCloud
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.
In 2014, Nayer decided to go back to her roots. In April 2015, she filmed two music videos. In August, she announced the release of her new single "Mi Cuerpo" (and its fully English version "My Body"). The music videos for "Mi Cuerpo" and "My Body" were released on her
Vevo
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channel on August 11, 2015. The singles were released on all the music platforms on August 14. The second music video that she filmed in the beginning of that year was for the song "Leila". In 2017, Nayer posted a teaser of the music video on her Instagram but the full video hasn't been released yet.
Spanish artist
Juan Magán
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As a remixer, he has worke ...
announced on his Twitter that he would release his collaboration with Nayer and
Dasoul, produced by
Daddy Yankee
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in "a couple of weeks". The song was released in the beginning of July 2016 as a part of his "Quiero Que Sepas" EP.
On April 14, 2017, Nayer released a new single "Yo Soy Lo Que Tu Quieres" featuring Chacal. The music video premiered on June 14.
In December 2017, Nayer appeared on AllStar 305's single "Miami Se Calienta". The music video was released on February 27, 2018.
The music video for Nayer's song "Adiccion" featuring Yomil was released on May 23, 2018.
In July, Nayer announced that the music video for her collaboration with the Lebanese (arabic) singer
Melissa
Melissa is a female given name. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey".
''Melissa'' also refers to the plant ''Me ...
called "Leily Leily" would be released on July 20. The song was also released as a single on all the big music platforms on August 20.
On September 10, 2018, Nayer launched her own makeup brand.
Discography
Singles as lead artist
As featured artist
Guest appearances
List of other recorded songs
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
American dance musicians
American women pop singers
American people of Lebanese descent
American people of Brazilian descent
American entertainers of Cuban descent
American Latin pop singers
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)