1. Daddy Yankee 1
John Patino
English Composition
Instructor Erin Moore
October 20, 2013
Daddy Yankee
He was born as Raymond Ayala; Yankee began his musical career from the
ground up, selling mixed tapes from his car and improvising to the beats laid out by
popular DJs. He was one of the founders of a completely new genre that by his beginning
was very criticized but now it is probably the main genre in Latin America.
“We would do hip hop and the Puerto Rican DJs would play a vinyl with hip hop
on one side, and a vinyl with reggae and dancehall on the other, they played them
together and do a remix. And we would rap over the beats.” (Daddy Yankee, 2010)
Nowadays, Yankee towers over an empire than Includes:
El cartel records, a production house
Los Cangris music publishing
El Cartel Tequila
Men’s and women’s fragrance (DY for men and Dyamante for women)
A growing film company that produced “Talento de Barrio”, the highest-grossing
film in Puerto Rico’s history, starring Yankee himself
He has also won nine Billboard Latin Music Awards, two Latin Grammys and
eleven Premios Juventud Awards
I admire Daddy Yankee not only because his accomplishments as an artist but
because he has maintain humble and trying to help people, he has a foundation that helps
people that were in Jail, trying to help them and join them to the society. His
perseverance and discipline have made of him a model for many young and old people.
He has an incredible business visionary, he has launch products such as El Cartel Tequila
or his men’s and women’s fragrance taking advantage of the amount of fans he has; this
products have become an incredible success, moreover he has been an innovator because
in all the products above he was the first Latin Artist to introduce them, serving as a
model for other big artists to follow his variety in business.
Raymond Ayala has shown the world that if you dream and work hard for your
dreams you can accomplish whatever you want, he raised in a Puerto Rican housing
project. He is not the typical polemic artist that wants to make news without looking to
the quality of that news; he is always looking forward and trying to take the genre to the
next level, characterizing it for the evolution.

2. Daddy Yankee 2
In the past years we were able to see Yankee’s collaboration with American
artists such as:
Fergie in the song “Impacto”
Snoop Dog in his song “Gangsters Zone” from the album “Barrio Fin”
WILL.I.AM in the album “The Big Boss”
Daddy Yankee was named one of the most influential Hispanics in the World by both
CNN and Time Magazine. Most of their workers and associates are members of his
family because he wanted all to be part of the business and help them economically but
also working.
He is without doubt one of the most successful Latinos in the world and more
important accompanying that success there is a noble person that helps others,
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