Mr. Paradise

Latin rapper/singer/guitarist Mr. Paradise combines traditional flamenco music with street-tough hip-hop and bittersweet pop melodies to forge a unique sound that got him signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. Born Angel Ariel Batista in 1991 in Villa Duarte, Dominican Republic and raised in Madrid, Spain from the age of two, he attended an international boarding school where the values of mutual tolerance and respect for diversity shaped him and helped form his sunny outlook on life. At the age of ten he moved with his mother to West New York, New Jersey, and at 14 formed a regg...