Hector el father

Hector El Father is one of the main exponents in the reggeaton genre, he could be considered the P Diddy or Dr. Dre of reggeaton. Despite his young age, Hector has had an extensive music career. During the mid 90's Hector came to fame as part of the duet Hector and Tito. Both became the first reggeaton artists to sell out a massive concert in Puerto Rico, opening the path to other artists such as Tego Calderon, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Wisyn y Yandel. As a duet both captured the world's attention and made reggeaton a popular genre, won important awards such as the Latin Billboard Award and reached the top of the charts in several countries. After 12 years of continuous success, Hector and Tito decided to go separate ways. Hector, who is also Don Omar's mentor and producer, has produced a variety of artists. In 2004 he founded his own record label GoldStar Music, and positioned his group TREBOL CLAN among audience's favorites with over 100 thousand copies sold of Los Bacatranes, their first album under his label. In 2005 he started his solo career debuting in Pasto, Colombia, in front of 60 thousand people. Several of his songs became big hits across Latin America and the U.S: "Noche de Travesuras", "Los Rompe Discotecas" "Vamos pa la calle", "Noche de Terror" and "Mirandonos" are some of them. His compilation album titled LOS ANORMALES, released under his own label, broke all record sales in Puerto Rico when 130,000 copies were sold in just two days. This album features the most important reggaeton artists such as Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Trebol Clan, Divino, Zion and the duet Alexis y Fido. The album has gone to sell over 200,000 units. In February, Hector El Bambino performed in the Canary Islands during their big Carnival festivities. His performance was a sold out success. His song "Morena", which Hector produced for Hector y Tito, is one of the most air played songs in this Spanish territory. Hector has soon positioned himself as a solo artist. He has toured around the U.S. cities with great Hispanic concentrations such as New York, Miami, Orlando, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Houston and Los Angeles. Hector has proven his talent for business as well, besides his record label he also owns a popular dance club in his native island of Puerto Rico. In the middle of 2005 "El Father", as he is also now known, signed a very important agreement with hip hop super star JAY Z. The contract will launch Hector's career in the anglo market. Both performers will produce a compilation album under the Island Des Jam label, propriety of JAY Z, due this year. The album titled "Rompe Discotecas" will feature top of the line artists both from Anglo hip hop and Spanish reggaeton. Additionally, Hector became the Hispanic image for his clothing line Roc-A Wear. The advertising campaign including his image will be featured in TV spots, print, and billboards. The agreement also states that Roc-A Wear will sponsor Hector's own clothing designs under the label Bambino. At the same time Hector's designed tennis shoes will form part of the JAY Z's "S. Carter Collection" by Reebok. Hector is also preparing his first solo album "The Bad Boy", and as a producer he is working in the compilation album "The Godfather 2" and a new CD for Trebol Clan.

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Tego Calderón was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1972. He grew up in Río Grande and Carolina, areas of Puerto Rico that maintain some of the strongest Afro-Caribbean influences on the island. Throughout his childhood Calderón was exposed by his parents to the groundbreaking music of salsa legend Ismael Rivera, as well as to Latin jazz. “I grew up and identified myself with Ismael Rivera’s distinctive style and soon I was old enough to understand what course I wanted to follow in music.”

Determined to take his place in the music world, Tego explored a diversity of musical influences, transforming himself into an accomplished musician as well as vocalist. He attended the Escuela Libre de Música of Puerto Rico, where he concentrated on percussion studies, while also mastering composition and lyrics.

In the late-1980’s, Tego moved to Miami, where he graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School. It was there that Calderón began to soak up the influences of American hip-hop. Hearing the California gangsta rap troupe N.W.A. proved pivotal. “It really caught my attention, it was something that I related to, and I decided I wanted to be a rapper,” Calderón said.

Moving back to Puerto Rico, Calderón also found a new appreciation for such Jamaican dancehall performers as Buju Banton, Super Cat, and Ninja Man. Around the same time, the Reggaetón movement began to become a force in Puerto Rico. Calderón began to forge his own multicultural rap style, earning a reputation as a street poet with a fresh musical approach.

He credits fellow Puerto Rican hip-hop pioneer Vico C with inspiring him to rap in Spanish, instead of imitating the English catch phrases of African-American hip-hop. Establishing himself as a new voice of the streets, he made a series of appearances on best-selling Latin hip-hop compilations. A remix collection entitled “EL ENEMY DE LOS GUASÍBIRI,” released in 2004, consisted largely of tracks which had appeared on those early compilations.

“EL ABAYARDE” released in 2002, broke sales records in the then-underground Reggaetón genre, selling a remarkable 50,000 on the first day of its release, and Calderón became an overnight Latin superstar. Just three months after making his solo debut, Calderón was greeted with a tumultuous response at a sold-out concert at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. The following day, he made history when he became the first rap artist to perform at the traditional National Day of Salsa celebration.

When Tego first headlined New York’s Madison Square Garden in August 2003, The New York Times heralded him as “the most forward-looking performer” of the artists on the bill, noting that “Mr. Calderón made the best case for Reggaetón as music with room to grow.” In October 2004, when he returned to the stage of the Garden as the star of the breakthrough “Megatón 2004” event, attendance had swelled from 12,000 to a sold-out 20,000, with a large number of non-Spanish-speaking fans in the audience. “The crowd erupted into a frenzy,” noted the Village Voice. “The fruit of Tego’s crossover appeal was palpable… They were bopping their heads and flailing their arms to the universal beat.”

As Latin rappers have been embraced by the American hip-hop culture, Calderón has been featured on a variety of mix tapes and has been invited to add his trademark vocal style to collaborations and remixes by the likes of Fat Joe’s Terror Squad (the #1 smash, “Lean Back”), Usher, 50 Cent, Cypress Hill, and Wyclef Jean, among others.

From his appearances at New York’s annual Puerto Rican Day parades in 2004 and 2005, to becoming the first Spanish-language artist to be featured on New York’s Power-105, Calderón has been breaking cultural barriers. In a cover story on Calderón and Reggaetón, the Village Voice noted that Tego “almost single-handedly… steered his country’s dominant youth culture out of the island and Latino neighborhoods, and into the American stream of pop consciousness.” Among Calderón’s achievements are Latin Grammy and Billboard Award nominations, a Source Award for “International Artist of the Year,” a Tu Música award, and nominations for La Gente and Lo Nuestro awards.

In the spring of 2005, Calderón signed with Atlantic Records via a deal with his own Jiggiri Records label -- becoming the first Reggaetón artist to ink a global pact with a major label. His second proper album, "THE UNDERDOG / “EL SUBESTIMADO”, is due out from Jiggiri/Atlantic Records later this year.


Calderon defines this new production as a journey through the Afro-Caribbean musical scene which masterfully brings together Reggae, Dance Hall, Salsa, Bomba, Rumba, and the Deep South feeling of the blues.

This new production is will feature the guests appearances of Buju Banton, Voltio, Bataklán, Eddie Dee, Luis Cabán, Yandel, Zion, Chyno Nyno, y Don Omar and the legendary salsa singer Oscar de Leon. Producers of the caliber of Cookee, Major League, Salaam Remi, Eric Figueroa, Luny Tunes, DJ Nelson, Danny Fornaris, DJ Nesty, Naldo, DJ Joe, DJ Fat and Echo & Diesel, also collaborated in the 21 track CD.

Tego's music is an experimental nexus of urban Hip Hop roughness with the poetic Caribbean rhythms transmitted by the early sounds of Salsa music. Not only is Tego, like many of his Salsa heroes, a formidable storyteller...he also incorporates the lyrical percussion and fine rhythmic lines that can be found in the works of Luis Pales Matos.

Calderon's is by far more than just another Reggaetón performer; he is a consummate street poet at the Vanguard of the Puerto Rican musical and artistic scene. While others break...Calderon's music is the true essence of a real artist...He creates and repairs...not many current musicians can boast that.

TEGO CALDERON

Don Omar became one of reggaeton's first international superstars, thanks to his early-2000s work with Luny Tunes but even more so thanks to "Reggaeton Latino," his 2005 anthem that became one of the style's first genuine crossover hits. Born William Landr�n in Villa Palmeras, Puerto Rico, Omar involved himself in the church at a young age. He became a preacher, in fact, and it was in this role that he began honing his performance ability as well as his deep insight into the human soul. He eventually left the church (a matter later addressed in his song "Aunque Te Fuiste") and channeled his talents toward music. It wasn't that far of a stretch from his days in the church, and Omar quickly took to the burgeoning reggaeton movement then sweeping through Puerto Rico. His big break came courtesy of H�ctor el Bambino of the popular duo H�ctor & Tito. Initially Omar produced and wrote songs for the duo, but it wasn't long before he was given the opportunity to collaborate with them vocally, as featured on the song "A la Reconquista." His solo career took off around this same time, with one of his first hits being "Desde que Llego" in 2002. He made his album debut the following year on the VI Music label. His album debut, The Last Don, was a landmark for the reggaeton movement, which was then just beginning to make inroads into the lucrative stateside market. The album featured extensive production work by Luny Tunes and Eliel, who would quickly become the style's go-to hitmakers, the former in particular, and it spawned a few hit records, including "Intocable" and "Dile." Beyond this album, Omar was scoring further hits with Luny Tunes on their compilation albums, most notably "Entre T� y Yo" from Mas Flow and "Dale Don Dale" from Trayectoria. His biggest hit came on the Chosen Few compilation, though. That hit, "Reggaeton Latino," was the perfect anthem -- an empowering rallying call of Latino pride, arriving just as reggaeton was spreading like wildfire throughout the coastal urban centers of the United States in summer 2005. The song was so popular in the U.S. that a remix was quickly issued to further the crossover possibilities. This bilingual remix featured well-known Latino rappers N.O.R.E. and Fat Joe, and it was only the second reggaeton song to get MTV airplay in the States, not to mention the crossover radio airplay it received. The success of "Reggaeton Latino" affirmed Omar's status alongside Daddy Yankee and Tego Calder�n as one of reggaeton's true leaders, and of them, he was clearly the revolutionary: a man of passion with a voice that sought to uplift his people to brighter days, not unlike what he had sought to do in his previous profession as a preacher, except now with an emphasis on the secular rather than nonsecular, and with a much, much larger following. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

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