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Ozuna
Ozuna in concert in 2017
Ozuna in concert in 2017
Background information
Birth nameJuan Carlos Ozuna Rosado
Born (1992-03-13) March 13, 1992 (age 32)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2012–present
Labels

Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado (born March 13, 1992),[1] known simply by his surname Ozuna, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer[2] who is regarded as the "New King of Reggaeton".[3][4] He has released three studio albums, Odisea (2017), Aura (2018), and Nibiru (2019). In the US, they reached the top of the Billboard Top Latin Albums, with Aura charting at number seven on the Billboard 200. Ozuna is not allowing tickets purchased through Ticketmaster to be refunded for his indefinitely postponed World Tour dates. This is per the Ticketmaster Customer service reps.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ozuna's father, a professional dancer, was murdered when he was three years old. At age twelve, he decided to become a singer, drawing influence from the Latin genres of reggaeton, salsa, and bachata. He made his musical debut in 2012 with the song "Imaginando". Since the beginning of his career, he has sold around 15 million records, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time.[5] He made his acting debut in the film Que León.[6]

Ozuna is the artist with the most one billion-view videos on YouTube.[7] He is the recipient of five Billboard Music Award, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards, four Guinness World Records, among other accolades.[8] In 2018, Time included him on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[9] His musical style is primarily reggaeton and trap, but he has collaborated with artists spanning a variety of genres, including reggae, bachata, and EDM.

Life and career

1992-2011: Early life

Ozuna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother.[10][11] He grew up listening to traditional Latin genres such as salsa and bachata, which have influenced his musical style.[11] He additionally enjoyed reggaeton artists Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Wisin y Yandel, which he refers to as “the real, real reggaeton", as well as American hip-hop and R&B artists Jay-Z and Usher.[12] As stated in the eponymous opening track from his album Odisea, he grew up poor and was mainly raised by his paternal grandmother. His father, who worked as a dancer for reggaeton performer Vico C for three years, was fatally shot when Ozuna was three years old, and his mother was not financially stable enough to raise him.[13] He was raised in his grandmother's three-bedroom apartment built above a bodega in San Juan.[14]

Drawing influence from the Latin music he grew up on, he decided to pursue a singing career at age twelve.[11] That same year, his uncle, who served as a father-figure since his father's death, gifted him his first microphone.[14] Hoping to escape the violence and poverty of his neighborhood, he moved to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in 2010.[15][11] However, he viewed this neighborhood to be equally violent and impoverished, and returned to Puerto Rico with his wife and two children after three years in New York.[11]

2012-2016: Career beginnings and breakthrough

He debuted as a singer in 2012 with the song "Imaginando". He previously went by the name J Oz. He worked with Musicologo & Menes before gaining popularity. In 2014, he signed a recording contract with Golden Family Records and began to publish his songs on YouTube. The following year, he focused on gaining a following by performing more than 300 shows in Puerto Rico.[16]

In that same year, he started his ongoing popular streak with his breakthrough hit "Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere", originally featuring D.OZi when released to platforms and websites, though he was taken down when the song hit radio. That song achieved success on radio and was eventually well known across Latin America. He has since performed in many shows across South America.[17] In early 2016, Ozuna gained further prominence for his appearance in the single "La Ocasión", a collaboration with DJ Luian, Mambo Kingz, De La Ghetto, Arcángel, and Anuel AA. The single reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. In March, Ozuna released a remix of his song "No Quiere Enamorarse", featuring Daddy Yankee. In September, he released his most popular single at the time, "Dile Que Tu Me Quieres", which earned him a place at number 13 on the Billboard Latin chart at the end of the year. Ozuna also had two other songs that made it on the ranking, "Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere (Remix)" (featuring Arcángel and Farruko) and "En La Intimidad", which reached the top 30.[18]

2017: Odisea

Ozuna performing in December 2016.

In June 2017, VP Entertainment/DimeloVi president, Vicente Saavedra, signed an agreement with Sony Music Latin. The deal included distribution for all artists represented by Saavedra agencies, starting with Ozuna's first studio album, Odisea. It was released on August 11.[19] The Odisea tour began on May 26, 2017, in Atlanta, and included over 25 cities, among them, Chicago, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles.[20][21] Eventually, it was renamed the Odisea World Tour, with Ozuna visiting European cities and Latin America.[22]

The single "Te Vas" reached more than 710 million views on YouTube, making it Ozuna's most played song on the website at the time.[23] Achieving success in the Latin market made many important figures in the genre consider Ozuna to be one of the best artists and the most successful of the new generation of reggaeton artists.[24]

In 2017, Ozuna released many singles, including "Dile Que Tu Me Quieres (Remix)" (featuring Yandel), "Después de las 12" and, in April of that year, "Tu Foto", which reached the 10th spot on the Latin Billboard list, and reached more than 780 million views on YouTube. He also released several collaborations, including "La Rompe Corazones" (featuring Daddy Yankee), "Escápate Conmigo" (featuring Wisin), "Ahora Dice" (with J Balvin, Arcángel, and Chris Jeday) among others. "Se Preparó" was released on August 10, 2017, and, as of October 2019, has more than 1.2 billion views on YouTube.

Odisea spent over 30 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, surpassing the 29-week record held by Luis Miguel's Segundo Romance as the longest-charting number one album by a male artist.[25]

2018-present: Aura and Nibiru

In December 2017, Ozuna released the single "La Modelo" featuring Cardi B.[26] Following the release, the song debuted at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated January 6, 2018, becoming Ozuna's first entry to the ranking as a lead act, following his featurings with Wisin's "Escápate Conmigo" and Natti Natasha's "Criminal", while all of them hit number three on the Hot Latin Songs chart.[27] In 2018, Time included him on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[9]

His second studio album Aura, released on August 24, 2018, debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200.[28] To promote the album, Ozuna embarked on the Aura Tour,[29][30] which started on July 26, 2018, in Madrid,[31] while the US leg started on September 7 in Atlanta.[29] He was named YouTube's most-viewed artist globally of 2018.[32] He made his acting debut starring in the film Que Leon, which was also released in the US.[33] In 2018, he worked with DJ Snake, Cardi B, and Selena Gomez for releasing "Taki Taki". The single reached number eleven on the US Billboard Hot 100.

"China", released in July 2019 with Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G and J Balvin, became his fourth number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.[34] He released his third album Nibiru on November 29, 2019. The album features collaborations from Cultura Profética’s Willy Rodríguez, Snoop Dogg, DJ Snake and Diddy.[35] In an interview with National Public Radio, Ozuna explained the significance of the album title by saying, "I chose the name Nibiru from the theory that the world will end [after an interplanetary collision] and I adapted it to my own personal concept: We make music to collide with the world and the public".[36] Also in November 2019, Ozuna performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which he called “a dream, because I’ve seen it on TV for years".[12]

Artistry

Despite being primarily a reggaeton and trap artist, Ozuna cites bachata singer Romeo Santos as his biggest musical influence.

Ozuna is part of the newest wave of urban singers coming out of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Ozuna has more than ten songs exceeding 200 million views on YouTube, echoing the beginnings of other successful Urbano artists, like Farruko and Maluma.[37][38] Despite being primarily a reggaeton and trap artist, Ozuna cites Dominican-American bachata singer Romeo Santos as his biggest influence.[16] Ozuna also greatly admires salsa artist Frankie Ruiz.[11] He is also a fan of rock music, and expresses an affinity for the electric guitar.[39] While many of his songs feature explicit sexual lyrics, he has avoided lyrics that explicitly objectify or disrespect women.[10] His songs often discuss relationships and heartbreak, inspired by the overt sentimentality of the bachata and salsa genres.[11]

As described by a The New York Times article, Ozuna "can work across all these genres at the same time is a testament to the current fluidity of Latin pop, but also to the effectiveness of his singing. He has a sweet, nimble voice that he sometimes deploys like a balladeer, and sometimes like a rapper."[16] Joey Guerra of the Houston Chronicle observed that Ozuna "isn't quite as adventurous as contemporaries J Balvin or Bad Bunny. His songs stick to a more traditional formula...but Ozuna is earnest and sincere in his songs and performance".[40]

Personal life

Family and philanthropy

Ozuna has described himself as a "typical boricua with Dominican blood."[41] Ozuna is married to Taina Marie Meléndez.[42] He has two children with his wife, Sofía and Jacob Andrés.[43] Ozuna is a collector of watches, a passion that began when his grandmother gave him a Toy Story watch when he was a child. He has called his watch collection his "greatest investment" and in the year 2017 alone, Ozuna spent over $800,000 USD on watches.[44]

In 2017, he started the charity organization Odisea Children.[45] Aside from supporting the hospital with financial donations, Ozuna visited sick children in the San Jorge Hospital (in Santurce, San Juan) at Christmas time in 2019, along with other reggaeton artists who he called to action.[46]

Controversies

On January 5, 2017, he was arrested along with his work team at the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, by immigration agents. The incident occurred after he and his producer acted violently before the agents, which caused the reprogramming of a concert scheduled in Manizales.

On July 30 of the same year, during a concert at United Palace, New York, Ozuna struck a security guard on the head, with his microphone, for being on stage.[47] After receiving criticism for what he did, he expressed regret through Facebook.

In August of the same year, he was nearby when Carlos "Tonka" Báez Rosa, a drug trafficker, was murdered. He said he heard the shooting and fled the scene leaving his vehicle, a Range Rover truck, and that the victim was his close friend. He was linked to the investigation of the crime when the police found his truck near the scene. On August 7, the car was seized by police, and he received a death threat from a group of drug traffickers. A few days later, police said there was no direct link between his car and the shooting.[48]

In January 2019, Ozuna confirmed he had been the victim of an extortion scam involving an explicit video filmed of him when he was a minor. The FBI investigated the case, and Ozuna's lawyer confirmed that Kevin Fret, an openly gay trap singer, was the person extorting Ozuna. Kevin Fret was murdered, and police said that Ozuna was not a suspect in the murder. For the video, which had been edited to cause Ozuna more damage, Ozuna apologized to his fans and family.[49]

Discography

Main article: Ozuna discography

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Que León José Miguel León Main role
2019 Los Leones
2021 F9[50] Post-production

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Ozuna

Ozuna has received numerous awards, including 5 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Billboard Latin Music Awards, 6 Latin American Music Awards, 8 Lo Nuestro Awards and has been Latin Grammy-nominated.

Concert tours

  • Odisea Tour (2017)[20]
  • Odisea World Tour (2017)[22]
  • Aura Tour (2018)[29]
  • Nibiru (2019)

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