"Virtual Diva" is the first single by Puerto Rican

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performer

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from his third studio album ''

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''. It was released on February 3, 2009, through

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and

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. The song was released through nationwide airplay in December 2008, and has since become the most requested song at urban radio, reaching the number-one position on the ''

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soundtrack.

Music video

A music video for "Virtual Diva" was produced and filmed in

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. Around the end of January 2009, after celebrating with fellow working

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group Marcy Place while performing at the Providence Club in

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, Don Omar was finishing up on recording his new studio album. It would eventually be announced that he would be traveling down to Argentina once again to start filming the music video, which finished production on February 13, 2009. The video feature Argentinean model Ingrid Grudke, who portrays a doctor who wants to perform a grand experiment transforming Don Omar into half-man, half-machine. The song was also performed live for the first time on the

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, ''Entertainment as a Second Language'', on February 26, 2009.

Track listings and formats

Digital download single # "Virtual Diva" – 3:59

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

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