Reggeaton pioneer Daddy Yankee has a brand new album popping out. Then a tour. And apparently, that’s it.
Saying his upcoming studio album — his first in 10 years — and an accompanying tour, the reggaeton star additionally mentioned he’s retiring from music, based on an emotional video he posted Sunday night time on his web site.
The 45-year-old rapper has spent three a long time within the trade and racked up international hits akin to streaming record-breaker “Despacito” and “Con Calma.” He plans to launch his last album, “Legendaddy,” on Thursday and embark on a North and South American tour in August.
“I’m going to place all of the kinds which have outlined me in a single album: the battle, events, conflict, romance,” the worldwide celebrity mentioned in Spanish.
Yankee, born Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, has had a exceptional profession that drew on musical influences from Jamaica, Panama, New York and his native Puerto Rico, the place reggaeton boomed and went international. His music lastly hooked English-speaking audiences with the inescapable 2004 single “Gasolina,” which helped popularize a style that was first shunned by traditionalist gatekeepers.
He has bought round 30 million data, based on his web site, to change into one of many best-selling Latin music artists. He’s additionally been nominated for 4 Grammy Awards and a lot of Latin Grammys, although he and fellow artists J Balvin, Unhealthy Bunny and Maluma spoke out in 2019 concerning the lack of reggaeton and illustration within the latter awards present.
Yankee’s hit singles embody “Dura,” “Rompe,” “Limbo” and “Que Tire Pa Lante” and a lot of tracks that he was featured on. His earlier album, “Status,” was launched in 2012, and in September 2020, he teamed up with Common Music Group for a strategic international partnership that might embody music, movie and TV tasks.
“This profession, which has been a marathon, has to get to the end line. Now I’m going to get pleasure from what you’ve given me and what we’ve given this style,” he mentioned in Sunday’s retirement video. “Folks say that I made it worldwide, however it was you who gave me the important thing to open the doorways to make this style the best on the planet.”
The musician mentioned his followers have enabled him to succeed and that has change into the “best treasure” of his profession. He mentioned he would at all times work “as to not fail them” and to “encourage all the youngsters who dream of being leaders once they develop up, who don't take into consideration limitations and who work for his or her households.”
“Within the neighborhoods the place we grew up, most of us needed the drug trafficker [life]. As we speak ... most wish to be singers. Meaning so much to me,” he added, additionally thanking followers and colleagues who've been with him “for the reason that floor ground, from the roots, for the reason that starting of reggaeton.”
Daddy Yankee’s 41-date tour — fittingly titled La Última Vuelta (the Final Lap) — kicks off in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 10. From there he goes to San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 12 and makes his option to Los Angeles with a cease on the Discussion board in Inglewood on Aug. 13. (Tickets for that present go on presale March 28 at 10 a.m. Pacific.)
The tour can even hit Sacramento, Ontario, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and New York, with a lot of stops in Canada and all through Central and South America. He closes out the tour on Dec. 2 in Mexico Metropolis.
He can even headline the Baja Seaside Fest — held in Rosarito Seaside, Mexico — the weekends of Aug. 12-14 and Aug. 19-21.
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