D'Mingo is a Latin urban artist from Brooklyn, New York, of Puerto Rican descent whose solo career first took flight in the late '90s as a salsero with hip-hop leanings. He then spent the next decade working behind the scenes as a producer and major-label A&R executive at EMI and Atlantic Records before relaunching his solo career in the 2010s. Born Domingo Ramos on August 31, 1973, he grew up on the south side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood known as Los Sures. In hopes of keeping her son off the streets, his mother enrolled him in private music lessons at a youn...