 | | Though Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel (born Juan Morera and Lladel Vegilla) were around for some time (their debut album, Reyes del Nuevo Milenio, was released in 2000) and gained fans and recognition with records like 2004's De Otra Manera and 2005's Mi Vida: La Pelicula, it wasn't until Pa'l Mundo hit the number one Latin album spot on the Billboard charts that they began to be recognized outside the Spanish-speaking community. |
 | | Daddy Yankee did more than anyone to establish reggaeton as a marketable music style during the early 21st century. |
 | | A New York-based Dominican boy band with roots deep in bachata? If that sounds unlikely, well, Aventura have managed to cope with it. |
 | | Prince Royce is a bachata singer from New York with an urban style who broke into the Latin pop mainstream in 2010 with a bilingual version of "Stand by Me. |
 | | One of the pioneers of reggaeton, Tito "El Bambino" was half of the trailblazing duo Hector & Tito before he embarked on a solo career of his own, signing with EMI Televisa and debuting in 2006 with Top of the Line. |
 | | Though both Raul "Alexis" Ortiz and Joel "Fido" Martinez were active in the Puerto Rican reggaeton scene since they were teenagers, they didn't join forces until 2001 on the compilation Desafio. |
 | | Jose Nieves (RKM) and Kenny Vasquez (Ken-Y) joined forces in 2004 to form the reggaeton duo RKM & Ken-Y. |
 | | Romeo Santos is a bilingual bachata singer/songwriter who rose to fame in the 2000s as the lead vocalist of world-renowned boy band Aventura prior to embarking on a chart-topping solo career in 2011. |
 | | Chino & Nacho are a Venezuelan reggaeton duo with a romantic, tropical style who made their album debut nationally in 2008 and later scored an international chart-topping smash hit with "Mi Niña Bonita" in 2010. |
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 | | Zion & Lennox are one of reggaeton's most recognizable duos. Felix Ortiz (Zion) and Gabriel Pizzaro (Lennox) grew up in Carolina, Puerto Rico, as neighbors. |
 | | Ivy Queen, the undisputed "Queen of Reggaeton," was born Martha Ivelisse Pesante on March 4, 1972, in Afiasco, Puerto Rico. |
 | | Luny Tunes were reggaeton's first major hitmaking production team, cranking out an assembly line of hit singles, club anthems, and CD mixtapes, all the while collaborating with many of the style's top vocalists. |
 | | Mixtapes and collaborations pave the road to success in the reggaeton world. Such is the case for Angel y Khriz, anyway. |
 | | Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1972 but raised in nearby Carolina and in Miami, FL, rapper Tego Calderón got the multicultural backbone he'd need to become a star in the genre-mixing world of reggaeton. |
 | | Tony Dize is a member of Los Vaqueros, a reggaeton group affiliated with superstar duo Wisin & Yandel. |
 | | It took the Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 roughly one year to catch on, after quietly debuting stateside in 2005 on White Lion (a small reggaeton label in partnership with Sony BMG) -- but catch on they certainly did. |
 | | One of the pioneers of reggaeton, Hector el Father (aka Hector "El Bambino") was half of the trailblazing duo Hector & Tito (aka Los Bambinos) before he embarked on a solo career of his own. |
 | | Puerto Rican Reggaeton duo Plan B was formed by cousins Javier Valle Vega and Edwin Vázquez Vega, who go by the alter egos Chencho and Maldy, respectively. |
 | | Created by New York Latin music producers George Zamora and Sergio George, Xtreme is a pop/R&B/bachata Dominican vocal duo consisting of lead singer Danny Mejia and backing vocalist Steven Tejada. |
 | | A multi-talented artist, Marc Anthony (born Marco Antonio Muñiz) has balanced an acting career with a musical career. |
 | | After achieving superstardom throughout Latin America, Colombian-born Shakira became Latin pop's biggest female crossover artist since Jennifer Lopez. |
 | | Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Jowell & Randy spent years establishing themselves individually before joining together and rising to fame within a few years' time. |
 | | Assembled by Dominican producers Ramón Cordero and Martires de León in 1998, Monchy & Alexandra comprises Ramón Rijo (aka Monchy) (born in La Romana in 1977) and Alexandra Cabrera de la Cruz (aka Alexandra) (born in Santo Domingo in 1978). |
 | | When the Southern-flavored party rap called crunk took over urban radio in 2004, Miami rapper Pitbull decided it was time to seek stardom. |
 | | Latin rock superstars Maná got their start in the Mexican city of Guadalajara in 1986 when singer Fher Olvero, guitarist Ulises Calleros, brother and bassist Juan Diego Calleros, and Cuban-Colombian drummer Alex González joined together, initially signing with Polygram. |
 | | Yandel is half of the superstar reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel, who enjoyed mainstream breakthrough success with Pa'l Mundo (2005). |
 | | At the dawn of the new millennium, Enrique Iglesias was the best-selling Latin recording artist in the world. |
 | | Mexican trio Camila made a strong entrance onto the Spanish-speaking pop/rock scene in the summer of 2006. |
 | | Originally dubbed "the Easy Boyz", reggaeton duo Baby Rasta & Gringo debuted in 1998 with the album New Prophecy. |
 | | Latino R&B/reggae singer Flex first emerged in 1997 and, following years of climbing the mixtape ladder, solidified his solo career in 2008 with the smash hit record Te Quiero. |
 | | Wisin is half of the superstar reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel, who enjoyed mainstream breakthrough success with Pa'l Mundo (2005). |
 | | A former member of the Dominican-American boy band Aventura, vocalist Toby Love performs a unique pop style that mixes R&B, hip-hop, and elements of the traditional Dominican musical form bachata. |
 | | Arcángel is a reggaetón vocalist from Puerto Rico who began his career as a member of the duo Arcángel y De la Ghetto in the mid-2000s before embarking on a solo career. |
 | | De la Ghetto is a reggaetón artist from Puerto Rico who established himself in tandem with onetime partner Arcangel before embarking on a solo career in 2007. |
 | | With his mastery of the Dominican Republic's merengue tradition, New York-born and Puerto Rican-raised vocalist Elvis Crespo wasted no time in reaching the apex of contemporary Latin music. |
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 | | Ricky Martin was one of the biggest teen idols in Latin America during the '90s and a major figure in American pop music by the end of the decade. |
 | | Panamanian R&B/hip-hop group La Factoria was created in 2000 by producer Pablo Maestre, better known as DJ Pablito. |
 | | Whereas many of his Spanish-language contemporaries undertook English-language crossover campaigns at one point or another in their careers, Colombian singer/songwriter/guitarist Juanes won global appeal in his native language exclusively and became perhaps the biggest and most important popular Latin music artist in the world in the early 21st century. |
 | | Founded in 2009, Dyland & Lenny is a reggaeton duo from Puerto Rico comprised of rapper Dyland (born Carlos Castillo Cruz) and vocalist Lenny (born Julio Manuel González Tavarez), who both had planned to become basketball players prior to making a career in music. |
 | | Cosculluela is a reggaeton vocalist who made his smash hit solo album debut in 2009 with El Principe. |
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 | | Franco "El Gorila" is a member of Los Vaqueros, a reggaeton group affiliated with superstar duo Wisin & Yandel. |
 | | In his native Dominican Republic, merengue superstar Juan Luis Guerra is considered a poet and musician of the people. |
 | | Jerry Rivera was one of the most popular of the early-'90s generation of young salseros. His album Cuenta Conmigo became one of the biggest albums in salsa music and produced two major hits, the title track and "Casi un Hechizo. |
 | | Carlos y Alejandra are a bachata duo from the United States who made their full-length album debut with La Introduccíon in 2009. |
 | | Beginning in the late '80s, Chayanne, one of Latin pop's premier heartthrobs, sustained a bountiful hitmaking career as a balladeer and even found time to pursue an acting career on the side. |
 | | Initially molded as a traditional Latin balladeer, one who sings romantic songs with much dramatic flair over sweeping string arrangements, Luis Fonsi enjoyed much success as such, though he began to break steadily from that mold, beginning with Paso a Paso in 2005, and enjoyed even greater success and more critical acclaim as a result. |
 | | A member of the trio La Factoría prior to going solo, Joey Montana is a Panamanian reggaeton vocalist with a romantic style who made his full-length album debut with Sin Cadenas in 2007. |
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