Daddy Yankee Announces His Retirement
In a video launched on Sunday night time, the Puerto Rican reggaeton icon Daddy Yankee introduced that he’s retiring from music. To shut out his three-decade profession, he shared that he’s releasing a last album referred to as Legendaddy and planning one final tour. Daddy Yankee, whose actual identify is Ramón Ayala, posted the video…
In a video launched on Sunday night time, the Puerto Rican reggaeton icon Daddy Yankee introduced that he’s retiring from music. To shut out his three-decade profession, he shared that he’s releasing a last album referred to as Legendaddy and planning one final tour.
Daddy Yankee, whose actual identify is Ramón Ayala, posted the video on his official web site, the place he additionally shared a hyperlink to pre-save the upcoming album and outlined his upcoming La Ultima Vuelta tour. The U.S. leg kicks off in Portland, Oregon on Aug. 10 and ends in New York on Sept. 20. The musician will then transfer by way of Latin America, stopping in Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and extra.
In his video, he addressed his followers immediately in Spanish. “This profession has been a marathon,” Ayala mentioned. “I lastly see the end-goal. Now I’m going to get pleasure from with all of you in what you’ve given me. Individuals say I made this style world, however it’s you who gave me the keys to open the doorways and make this style the largest on the earth. He additionally spoke about his affect on youthful generations. “Within the barrios, the place we grew up, most of us needed to be drug sellers. At the moment, I’m going to barrios and caserios, and the bulk need to be artists, and meaning loads to me.”
Ayala described his upcoming album as his “greatest manufacturing.” He mentioned he’d have fun ending his 32 years as an artist with “all of the types that ave outlined me on one album.” Legendaddy might be his first studio album in 10 years.
Ayala started making music within the mid-Nineties. He broke by way of along with his 2004 album Barrio Fino, which included the smash hit “Gasolina”— voted certainly one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Biggest Songs of All Time—which introduced reggaeton to mainstream audiences internationally.