Daddy Yankee shocked his fanatics through pronouncing his drawing close retirement from track with an album and a farewell excursion, greater than 3 a long time after beginning a occupation that put reggaeton at the global map with hits together with “Gasolina”, “Somos de Calle”, “Con Calma” and “Despacito.” His luck has made him one of the crucial greatest idols in Latin track and a winner of six Latin Grammy Awards.
“This occupation, which has been a marathon, finally I see the end line,” the 45-year-old Puerto Rican big name stated in Spanish in a video posted Sunday night time on his website online. “This style, folks inform me that I made it international, nevertheless it was once you who gave me the important thing to open the doorways to make this style the largest on this planet.
“Lately I announce officially my retirement from track through supplying you with my best possible manufacturing and my best possible live performance excursion,” added Yankee, who in 1995 launched his first album, “No Mercy,” and reached world stardom a couple of years later with the enduring “Barrio Fino.”
Yankee, whose actual identify is Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, will liberate “Legendaddy” on Thursday night time, which he outlined as “a collector’s merchandise” that may come with all of the types that experience outlined him. “‘Legendaddy’ is fight, birthday party, battle, romance,” he stated of the album, his first in a decade since 2012’s “Status.”
In the summertime, he’s going to release “L. a. Última Vuelta” (this means that the ultimate lap or the ultimate spherical,) a 41-date excursion kicking off August 10 in Portland, Oregon that may take him throughout the USA, Canada and Latin The united states, finishing on December 2 in Mexico Town. Pre-sale tickets shall be to be had on Friday, whilst the overall sale starts on March 30.
“I all the time labored to not fail you, to not search for any issues, with numerous self-discipline, with the intention to encourage kids to be leaders, to dream of expansion, not to take into accounts boundaries, and to paintings for his or her households and their folks,” stated the singer referred to as the “King of Reggaeton.”
“Within the neighbourhoods the place we grew up, maximum folks sought after to be drug sellers. Lately, I am going right down to the barrios and small villages and maximum of them wish to be singers. That implies so much to me.”
He concluded through expressing his gratitude to his fanatics, his colleagues, manufacturers, broadcast media and press, “and particularly you, who’ve been with me from the underground, from the roots, from the start of reggaeton.”