It was the year 2004, when in discos, school parties, and even on Ecuadorian television programs The gas, from daddy yankee He became the life of the parties. “Zúmbale mambo so that my cats turn on the engines”, It is one of the phrases that the Puerto Rican chanted, on a topic that generated enormous rejection in some and hubbub in others.
Daddy Yankee retires from music, but before that he will offer two concerts in October in Guayaquil and Quito
The more than 30 years of musical career have accredited him the denomination of “The king of reggaeton”; several are the themes of it that already become part of the historical encyclopedia of the urban genre.
On Sunday Daddy Yankee announced that he was retiring from the stage with a tour, with which he will travel through some countries, including Ecuador. Today we will review the successes that have marked her career and made the whole world dance.
Gasoline (2004)
It was and will be the song that opened the door to the world, in fact it is considered the song that made the urban genre known in Europe. He wrote it with songwriter Eddie Dee, it was released as the first single from his famous album Barrio Fino. In 2021, the magazine rolling stone ranked this song at number 50 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Break (2005)
did you know that break was the best-selling song in the history of Rigtone, in 2005?. A year later, the Puerto Rican did it again. As the title of his song says, Yankee broke the music rankings worldwide. For 15 consecutive weeks he was number one on the magazine’s Hot Latin Tracks list. Billboard, being the song with more weeks in this position of the list during the year 2006.
Slowly (2017)
Although the authorship rests with Luis Fonsi, This collaboration made by the Puerto Rican returned him strongly to the music scene. It is seen as the most successful urban song of all time. His video clip on YouTube places him as the most viewed in history, with 7,786,940,109 of plays so far.
Hard (2018)
Hard It is part of the album El disco duro that Yankee published in 2018 under his label The Cartel Records. In 2 weeks it reached 60 million views on YouTube. In three weeks it reached the first position in the viral videos of YouTube and also in ITunes, that same year it was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award.
Calmly (2019)
Performed with the Canadian Snow, with Calm It is among the most listened to Puerto Rican songs. Time later this theme became a remix with Katy Perry. the song is a remake of the simple informer, by Snow, released in 1992. The song topped the charts in 15 countries and entered the top 10 in 11 others. In the United States, the song peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 10.
She Picked Me Up (2007)
Salsa and reggaeton are combined in She raised me up, the second single from her album The poster: The Big Boss. The song was produced by Elvis “Mr. G” García, a renowned producer of tropical music. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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