Raymond

RAYMOND
AYALA
FECHA: 22-02-2024 INFOGRAFIA DE RAYMOND

AYALA O TAMBIEN
JACOB YANEZ CONOSIDO COMO DADY
YANKE
DADY YANKE :
Raymond Ayala grew up in a
humble and conflictive
neighborhood of Río Piedras, a
former municipality annexed to
the capital, San Juan de Puerto
Rico. He didn't dislike school, but
his dream was to become a
professional baseball player, and
his musical tastes were those of
his generation. Upon entering
adolescence, however, he began
to become interested in break
dancing and particularly rap, and
began singing songs in the latter
style, with which he felt fully
identified.
During those years he had the

opportunity to meet Pedro
Gerardo Torruelas, an
independent disc jockey who,
like most of his profession, was
better known by his stage name:
DJ Playero. Since the early 90s,
this key figure in the
development of reggaeton had
been producing recordings that
mixed reggae and hip hop
rhythms with improvised
recitations in Spanish. DJ Playero
was able to appreciate the
potential of the young Raymond
and his aptitude for rap,
particularly the ingenuity he
displayed in his fluid
improvisations, and they began
to collaborate on a series of
recordings that, despite their
almost artisanal production,
soon achieved great
dissemination among youth. of
the island. In DJ Playero's
extensive discography, the mix
album Playero 34 (1990) was the
first to feature a song performed
by the young debutant:
Persígueme, don't stop.
In the transition from

adolescence to youth, two events
determined him to take these
amateur forays more seriously.
Firstly, his early marriage to the
young Mireddys González; At 17
years old, Raymond Ayala was
already a father. The second was
an unfortunate accident: during a
street confrontation in which he
was not participating, a stray
bullet became embedded in his
femur, forcing him to undergo a
year of recovery and definitively
cutting short his prospects in
baseball. Already focused on his
musical projects, and with the
support of DJ Playero and Nico
Canada as producers, he
managed to release his first solo
album, No Mercy (1995), signed
under the artistic alias of Yankee.
He would soon be called Daddy
Yankee, a name that from the
island's peculiar Spanish could
be translated as "Big Dad."
In practice, the titles and nicknames that he
handled or received from his colleagues and
admirers would be many more, it can be said that
as many as styles and trends he absorbed;
Although rap marked his origins, he soon showed
his receptivity towards that uncomplicated
recasting of genres that was experienced in the
country, and, following in the footsteps of one of
his idols, Vico C, he assumed the nascent
reggaeton as his own, until he became one of its
most prominent performers. Daddy Yankee is
responsible for the early publication of two
compilation albums of almost pure reggaeton in
which he shared the spotlight with other artists:
El Cartel de Yankee (1997) and El Cartel II: Los
Cangris (2001). Both had an excellent reception
in Puerto Rico.
His second solo album was El Cangri.com (2002);

With him began, although timidly, the
international projection of Daddy Yankee: Latin
stations in the United States radiod some songs
from the album, and for the first time his works
began to be heard outside the island. This album
includes the song The Great Robbery, which
featured the exceptional collaboration of rapper
Lito MC Cassidy. Just that same year he carried
out the first Reggaeton Tour, a promotional
concert tour designed to make himself known in
various cities in the United States. With this
objective he went on stages in Philadelphia,
Springfield and Boston. The following year he
released Los Homerun-es (2003, reissued in
2005), a compilation in which, along with new
songs, his songs scattered in previous
recordings were collected.
The consecration
But the album that marked the definitive triumph

of the artist and the genre was Barrio Fino (2004).
In just over a year and a half, two million copies of
the album were sold around the world, which
would obtain a multitude of recognitions: it
received the Lo Nuestro award and the Latin
Billboard award, and the successful single
Gasolina, taken from the album, was nominated
for the Grammys and the MTVs. Although he
remained faithful to reggaeton, Daddy Yankee
had the wisdom to let himself be carried away by
his sense of smell and his eclectic tastes, and
also introduced rhythms closer to hip hop and
rap and even, in some songs, to salsa, a genre
that had always been one of its weaknesses. The
promotion of the album took the artist on tour
throughout America and Europe, without
excluding non-Spanish speaking countries, such
as France or Italy; The album even penetrated the
best-seller lists in Japan. In 2006, Time magazine
included Daddy Yankee on its list of the one
hundred most influential personalities in the
world.

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During those years he had the

In the transition from

His second solo album was El Cangri.com (2002);

But the album that marked the definitive triumph

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