Daddy Yankee

Biography

Daddy Yankee did more than anyone to establish reggaeton as a marketable music style during the early 21st century. Yankee's success was so phenomenal in the wake of his 2004 mainstream breakthrough, Barrio Fino -- and in particular the international hit single "Gasolina" -- that he transcended cultural boundaries and genre trappings. He became more than just a reggaeto+¦ero, having transformed himself into an international name brand by the time his 2007 follow-up album, El Car... Read more