"Ese" (English: ''He's The One'') is a song performed by Puerto Rican-American singer

Jerry Rivera Jerry Rivera (born Gerardo Rivera Rodríguez on July 31, 1973) is a Puerto Rican salsa singer and songwriter. Early years Rivera was born in Humacao, a town located on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. He moved with his family to Levittown in ...

from his ninth studio album ''De Otra Manera'' (1998). The song became his first #1 on the Hot Latin Tracks chart and fifth overall on the

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chart. It was acknowledged as an award-winning song at the 2000 BMI Latin Awards. Two versions of the song were recorded, one in

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and the other a

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. The success of releasing two versions of the song to Latin radio stations led to

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having their artists record multiple versions of the same song. José A. Estévez, Jr. of

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felt that Rivera "demonstrates with conviction" in the song. Eliseo Cardona of '' El Nuevo Heradl'' stated that the song "can be taken as a signal of alert (and also of alarm) It shows in any case that it was already time to get out of the monotony accumulated by his discography After listening to the song (also recorded in salsa) it is force majeure to recognize that the latter was fulfilled." The song was later featured as the main theme for the Mexican telenovela ''

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'' (1998).

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