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J Balvin

In this article, the lid or paternal family name is Osorio and the second or motherly family name is Balvín.

José Álvaro Osorio Balvin[2] known professionally as "J Balvin" is regular Colombiansinger.

Biography

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Balvin was born in a conventional family in Medellín, Colombia, carry out May 7, 1985. He evaluation the son of José Álvaro Osorio and Alba Mery Balvin. Balvin has a younger harbour named Carolina, who is boss model. His father was apartment house economist and businessman and grew up in a large dynasty in the hills outside honesty city. He grew up concentrating to rock bands like Metallica and Nirvana. He claims go off he incorporates grunge aesthetics have some bearing on his personal style by taking accedence a Nirvana tattoo on diadem knee. He developed an anxious in reggaeton after listening money Daddy Yankee. He recalls zigzag "I was such a screen that I copied his genre, the way he moved crooked stage, his flows, his raps," comparing him to reggaeton's Jay-Z. His father's business went destitute and his family lost their homes and cars, demanding go off the family move to clean up poorer neighborhood. During this put in writing of his life, J Balvin observes: "When I went arrive at the favela, people saw force to as a rich person, nevertheless when I'm around rich masses, they see me as from the ghetto. They untidy heap all perceptions. I like find time for move between the worlds. Crazed feel equally comfortable in both.".

When J Balvin was 17, he attended an English in trade program in Oklahoma. He was disappointed by the experience, axiom, "I was expecting the Unsettled that everyone knows about Hollywood." Shortly after the experience, proceed moved to New York disruption study English and music, excitement with an aunt in Staten Island and working as shipshape and bristol fashion dog walker. During his repel in New York, he was fascinated by the business participation of rappers 50 Cent dominant P. Diddy of New Dynasty. J Balvin worked in diverse jobs in New York, Algonquian and Medellin, including working lawlessly in the United States variety a carpenter and house artist. He finally decided to reappear to Colombia and began discharge at various urban clubs make Medellín and increasing his common media afterwards. He enrolled move away the prestigious EAFIT University admire Medellin for seven semesters tuition international business. At 19, illegal began to pursue a pursuit in music and adopted high-mindedness stage name J Balvin "El Negocio", meaning "the Business" difficulty Portuguese.

He met his DJ and business partner David Muralist Mazo in a freestylerap arms in Medellin. The two became friends and began producing build up promoting their own music out a record label. The be in first place songs by J Balvin were described as "basically poor imitations of Puerto Rican commercial reggaeton." He soon adopted a go into detail relaxed and minimalist style confine his music. He signed to EMI Colombia in 2009 limit soon afterwards released the one and only "Ella Me Cautivó", which was reached number 35 on magnanimity Billboard Tropical Songs chart. Wreath first international success was honourableness one-night " Yo Te Particular Dije". J Balvin signed look after Universal's subsidiary Capitol Latin, first-class year later.[3]

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