- Daddy Yankee
Ramón Ayala, known artistically as Daddy Yankee is a successful Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican reggaeton recording artist. - Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter popular in Latin America for his salsa music and salsa monga ballads. - Don Omar
William Omar Landrón (born February 10, 1978 in Carolina, Puerto Rico), is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated reggaeton singer/rapper. He is best known as Don Omar. He is one of the best known reggaeton artists in Latin America. His cross over success in the U.S. has given him more exposure to English speaking Reggaetón fans, making him one of the more recognizable faces of Reggaeton. Don Omar's popularity is currently rising and he recently appeared on MTV. - Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Organization Light Welterweight champion and is the current World Boxing Association Welterweight champion. He is married to Melissa Guzmán and has two children with her, Alondra and Miguel. As an amateur Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the Lightweight and Light Welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Panamerican Games, … - Fat Joe
Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970 in The Bronx, New York, USA), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper. - Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936 in New York City) - pianist and bandleader. Palmieri is best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms. - Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 - December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. He was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973 as the first Hispanic American to be selected, and the only exception to the mandatory five-year post-retirement waiting period since it was instituted in 1954. Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of four children. He played 18 seasons in the majors from 1955 to 1972, … - Mack 10
Dedrick Rolison (born August 9, 1971) is an American gangsta rapper and actor best known by his stage name Mack 10. Born in the city of Inglewood, California, he is of African American,Puerto Rican and Mexican American descent. He was a member of the hardcore rap trio known as the Westside Connection, along with Ice Cube and WC, and was consequently involved in Ice Cube's feud with Cypress Hill. He has sold 2.4 million albums as solo artist and label owner. - Big Boy
Gustavo Roy Díaz, known publicly as Big Boy, is a hip hop/reggaeton artist. Díaz, a pioneer of reggaeton music, began his music career at the age of eighteen when he signed with Musical Productions to release his first album "Mr. Big" in 1993. The album sold more than 100,000 copies, and spawned the hit single, "Big Boy Is In Tha House", a video which ironically featured an exclusively homeless cast. - La La
Alani "La La" Vasquez (born in June 25, 1979, in Brooklyn) is an American disc jockey, television personality and MTV VJ. - Gilberto Santa Rosa
Giberto Santa Rosa, also known as "The Salsa Gentleman" (born August 21, 1962 in Carolina, Puerto Rico), is a singer of salsa, bolero, and bandleader. - Victor Manuelle
Victor Manuelle (born Victor Manuel Ruiz on September 28, 1970 in New York, New York, but raised primarily in Isabela, Puerto Rico) is a successful salsa singer, songwriter, and improvisational "sonero", known to his fans as "El Sonero de la Juventud" ("The Youth's "Sonero"). - Ray Barretto
Ray Barretto a.k.a. King of the Hard Hands born in New York City, was a Puerto Rican jazz musician, widely credited as the godfather of Latin jazz. He was also the first Hispanic to record a Latin song which became a "hit" in the American Billboard Charts. Barretto's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the early 1920s, looking for a better life. - Ivy Queen
Ivy Queen is a composer and singer who is known as "La Diva", "La Gata", "La Caballota", and "La Reina del Reggaeton", "The Queen of Reggaeton". Ivy Queen has earned her name as "The Queen of Reggaeton" due to her success. She is among the few female artists in the reggaeton genre. Despite being in genre of music dominated by men, she has been able to have 2 Top 10 albums, and 3 Top 10 singles, along with over 900,000 records sold worldwide. - Tito Nieves
Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 90s. Raised in the U.S., Nieves began his career while participating in Orquesta Cimarron, a New York-based group. In 1977, he teamed up with singer Héctor Lavoe and his Orchestra and joined The Conjunto Clasico. Later, Nieves decided to start his solo career in 1986, setting himself apart by singing Salsa in English. "Sonámbulo" (Sleepwalker) launched his career. - Andy Montañez
Andrés Montañez, better known as Andy Montañez, is a famous salsa singer from Puerto Rico. Montañez, like singer Daniel Santos and boxer Ossie Ocasio, is a native of the "Tres Talleres" (Spanish for "Three Workshops") area of "Santurce" San Juan. He is known by the nickname "El niño de Tres Talleres" (the boy from Tres Talleres). He is the first born out of 17 children. - Mr. Big
Mr. Big is the ring name of a Puerto Rican professional wrestler best known for performing with the International Wrestling Association. Currently teaming with Blitz. - Ismael Rivera
Ismael Rivera a.k.a. El Sonero Mayor (The Premiere Improviser) (October 5, 1931 - May 13, 1987) born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was a renowned composer and singer of salsa music. - Ismael Miranda
Ismael Miranda a.k.a. The Pretty Boy of Salsa (born February 20, 1950 in Aguada, Puerto Rico) is a composer and a singer of salsa music. Miranda wanted to be a musician since childhood; he received his primary and secondary education in his hometown however, his musical inclination led him to form two different juvenile groups, "The 4J's and Little Junior" and "The Class Mates" by the time he was eleven years old. - La India
"La India" (born Linda Viera Caballero on March 9, 1970 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-nominated noted singer of salsa also known as the "Princess of Salsa". - Frankie Ruiz
Frankie Ruiz (March 10 1958 - August 9 1998 born in Paterson, New Jersey) was a well known Puerto Rican salsa singer. - Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sanchez (born April 2, 1973 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer, model and film/television actress. - Luis Fonsi
Luis Fonsi (born April 15 1978) is a Puerto Rican singer, composer & soap opera actor. - Jerry Rivera
Jerry Rivera (born July 31, 1973, in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a well known Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-nominated Puerto Rican salsa singer. - Tito Rojas
Tito Rojas a.k.a. "El Gallo" (The Rooster) (born June 14, 1955 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a salsa singer and bandleader. - Big Pun
Christopher Lee Rios (November 9 1971-February 7 2000), better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a New York rapper of Puerto Rican descent who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts on the track "Off the Books" and Fat Joe on Fat Joe's second album "J.O.E. (Jealous Ones Envy)", on the track "Watch Out", prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. - Elvis Crespo
Elvis Crespo (born July 30, 1971 in New York City, U.S.) is a Puerto Rican-American Merengue singer. He was named "Elvis" after American singer Elvis Presley. When he was small, he and his mother moved to Caguas, Puerto Rico, where Crespo spent his childhood and adolescent years. Elvis Crespo's most popular song written is called "Suavemente." Raised by his mother in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, from the age of six, Crespo served a long apprenticeship. - Cheo Feliciano
Jose Luis Feliciano Vega, better known as Cheo Feliciano (born July 3, 1935 in Ponce, Puerto Rico), is a composer and singer of salsa and bolero music. - Alexis Y Fido
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Prospect is a Puerto Rican Rapper from The Bronx and member of the Terror Squad. He has been on albums from both Big Pun and Fat Joe as well as both Terror Squad albums. He was part of Full a Clips Crew. He was known to be the wackess member of the group accorrding to Fat Joe. It would take him forever to write a rhyme. So he was sound off Terror Squad after the lean back video. - Vico C
Vico C (born Armando Lozada Cruz on September 8, 1971) is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer who is considered one of the founders of hip hop in Spanish or Latin hip hop. He was born in New York but raised in Puerto Rico. Nicknamed "The Philosopher", he adopted the professional name Vico C, by which he is better known, to honor both the philosopher Giambattista Vico and his mother (by including the letter C in the name, … - Yolandita Monge
Yolandita Monge (born September 16, 1955) is an international singer and actress from Puerto Rico. - Charlie Palmieri
Charlie Palmieri, also known as "The Giant of the Keyboards" (November 21, 1927-September 12, 1988) born in New York City, was a renowned Bandleader and musical director of salsa music. - Roberto Roena
Roberto Roena (born on January 16, 1940 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico was one of the original members of a Puerto Rican salsa music orchestra called El Gran Combo. The group's name had been derived from the name of an existing band named "El Combo" in which many of the original band members had been involved. (1980s) Roena, aside from being a percussionist, was a dancer and baseball player. - Tony Touch
Tony Touch, also known as Tony Toca, is an American hip hop DJ MC, B-boy, and producer from New York City, who is of Puerto Rican descent. He currently hosts a 2 hour mix show called "Toca Tuesdays" on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel Shade 45 on Tuesdays from 8pm to 12pm Est. Time. He has worked with many groups and rappers as Funkdoobiest, Cocoa Brovaz and Cypress Hill, and has a longtime affiliation with New York-based B-boy association Rock Steady Crew. - Lloyd Banks
Christopher Charles Lloyd (born April 30 1982 in New Carrollton, Maryland, USA), better known as Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the popular rap group G-Unit. - Eddie Santiago
Eddie Santiago is a famous salsa singer from Puerto Rico. At a young age, Eddie demonstrated great love and talent for salsa music. He performed with several groups, including Generación 2000, Orquesta La Potente, Orquesta Opus, and the Orquesta Saragüey. Santiago's career took off in 1986 in Puerto Rico and Latin America as a soloist, formimg his own band, and recording songs including: "Tú me quemas" ("You Burn Me"), … - Bobby Cruz
Bobby Cruz (born February 1, 1937 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico) is a salsa singer and religious minister. Bobby was raised in humble surroundings on his family's farm. When a child, his parents moved to New York where he was educated; here he enjoyed singing and considered El Gran Combo's style of music as the most influential in his life. In New York in 1964 Bobby Cruz met fellow Puerto Rican singer Richie Ray and soon joined his orchestra as a back-up singer. - Frankie Negron
Frankie Negrón is a singer of Salsa music of Puerto Rican descent. He is among a group of notable young tropical singers and "soneros" who have woven a blend of pop, rock, gospel music, R&B, hip-hop, and reggaetón elements into their salsa, a group that includes Huey Dunbar, Charlie Cruz, Kevin Ceballo, and Obie Bermudez. Siblings include a younger sister, Jaqueline Negrón (Jackie Negrón), who is also a gifted up and coming singer and dancer, and a brother, … - Fernando Ferrer
Fernando James "Freddy" Ferrer (born April 30, 1950 in the Bronx, New York) was the Borough President of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001, and was a candidate for Mayor of New York in 2001 and the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor in 2005.
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