Unhealthy Bunny plays all over the sixty fifth Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2023.
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Puerto Rican rapper Unhealthy Bunny is being sued through his ex-girlfriend for greater than $40 million over claims he used a recording of her voice with out permission or repayment.
Carliz De Los angeles Cruz Hernández claims that during 2015, previous to her cut up with Unhealthy Bunny — whose actual identify is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — and prior to his upward thrust to global status, she recorded the word “Unhealthy Bunny child” on her telephone.
That voice recording, she says, has been used on two of the Grammy award successful artist’s songs, his 2017 unmarried “Pa Ti” and the 2022 track “Dos Mil 16.” Each tracks have over 200 million performs every on Spotify and seem at the chart-topping album “Un Verano Sin Ti”.
Consistent with court docket paperwork filed in Puerto Rico previous this month, de l. a. Cruz mentioned she got here up with the word and her “distinguishable voice” is getting used with out her permission. Her attorneys argue Unhealthy Bunny’s use violates Puerto Rico’s “Regulation of the Proper to Personal Symbol.”
“1000’s of folks have commented at once on Carliz’s social media networks, in addition to each time she is going to a public position, about ‘Unhealthy Bunny, child,’” the lawsuit states. “This has brought about, and lately reasons, de l. a. Cruz to really feel fearful, anguished, intimidated, crushed and concerned.”
De l. a. Cruz and Unhealthy Bunny dated off and on beginning in 2011, in line with the lawsuit. She alleges within the court docket paperwork that Unhealthy Bunny introduced her $2,000 to shop for the recording in 2022 however she declined. A deal was once by no means reached and he then went forward and used the recording with out her categorical permission, in line with the lawsuit.
De l. a. Cruz is now looking for no less than $40 million.
Unhealthy Bunny, 29, has now not publicly addressed the lawsuit. His label, Rimas Leisure, and his supervisor, Noah Kamil Assad Byrne, also are named within the swimsuit. CNBC reached out to Rimas Leisure for remark.
Unhealthy Bunny rose to prominence in 2018 after being featured at the Cardi B chart-topper “I Like It.” He is since transform probably the most prolific hit makers in Latin tune and was once the most-streamed artist on Spotify for the previous 3 years.
Unhealthy Bunny is about to headline the 2023 Coachella tune competition subsequent month.