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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Reggaeton
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Reggaeton is a musical genre which originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s. It is influenced by hip hop and Latin American and Caribbean music, vocals include rapping and singing, typically in Spanish. The word reggaeton was first used in 1995, when DJ Nelson listed it as a name for an upcoming album. Although there are several Spanish spellings, Fundéu BBVA recommends reguetón, often mistaken for reggae or reggae en español, reggaeton is a younger genre which originated in the clubs of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1991. It became known as music, due to its circulation through informal networks. DJ Playero and DJ Nelson were inspired by hip hop and Latin American music to produce riddims, as Caribbean and African-American music gained momentum in Puerto Rico, reggae rap in Spanish marked the beginning of the Boricua underground and was a creative outlet for many young people. This created an inconspicuous-yet-prominent underground youth culture which sought to express itself, as a youth culture existing on the fringes of society and the law, it has often been criticized. Bootleg recordings and word of mouth became the means of distribution for this music until 1998. The genres popularity increased when it was discovered by international audiences during the early 2000s, the new genre, simply called underground, had explicit lyrics about drugs, violence, poverty, friendship, love and sex. These themes, depicting the troubles of inner-city life, can still be found in reggaeton, Underground music was recorded in marquesinas and distributed in the streets on cassettes. The marquesinas were crucial to the development of Puerto Ricos underground scene because of the fear of losing the ability to manipulate taste. Marquesinas were often in public housing such as Villa Kennedy. Despite being recorded in housing projects, most of the marquesinas were good quality, the availability and quality of the cassettes led to reggaetons popularity, which crossed socioeconomic barriers in the Puerto Rican music scene. The most popular cassettes in the early 1990s were DJ Negros The Noise I and II, gerardo Cruet spread the genre from the marginalized residential areas into other sectors of society, particularly private schools. By the mid-1990s, underground cassettes were being sold in music stores, the genre caught up to middle-class youth, and found its way into the media. By this time, Puerto Rico had several clubs dedicated to the scene, Club Rappers in Carolina. Bobby Digital Dixons Dem Bow production was played in clubs, Underground music was not originally intended to be club music. In South Florida, DJ Laz and Hugo Diaz of the Diaz Brothers were popularizing the genre from Palm Beach to Miami, Underground music in Puerto Rico was harshly criticized
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Nicky Jam
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Nick Rivera Caminero, known by the stage name Nicky Jam, is a singer and songwriter. He is best known for the song El Perdón and Hasta el Amanecer, Rivera was born to a Puerto Rican father and a Dominican mother. He later moved with his family to Barrio Obrero in Puerto Rico when he was ten years old and he has been in reggaeton since his youth. The name Nicky Jam was jokingly given to Rivera by a homeless man, riveras family was low-income and as a minor he performed illegal work in a grocery store in order to help support them, improvising while bagging groceries. One day a music executive noticed his talent and signed him, the album was not successful, but it did gain him recognition in the music industry, and warranted the attention of some music producers such as DJ Joe, DJ Playero and DJ Chiklin. After his first album, he continued working in the music industry, Daddy Yankee asked Rivera to work with him. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, they became friends and formed the unofficial Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam duo and they created many commercially successful singles including Sabanas Blancas, Guayando, Sentirte and many others. They also worked together on the album Los Super Amigos in 2000, in 2001, Daddy Yankee released El Cartel II, Los Cangris, which Rivera took a small part in. Due to personal issues, they ended their friendship in 2004, Rivera continued working as a solo artist and created many commercially successful singles. In 2012, after years of splitting apart, they both recorded El Party Me Llama from the album Prestige and confirmed they had both settled their disagreements from years prior. Rivera released Haciendo Escante in 2001, and in 2004 released Vida Escante and he and Daddy Yankee separated due to many arguments and conflicts between the two thus resulting in a rivalry. His most recent studio album is The Black Carpet, released in 2007 and he released the successful singles Tu Primera Vez, Piensas en Mi, Curiosidad, Juegos Prohibidos and, most notably, Voy A Beber. He also worked with Daddy Yankee again, after eight years of not working together, Nicky Jam has appeared in many reggaeton albums, currently holding the record for most appearances on various artist albums, which was formerly held by Daddy Yankee. His most recent album appearance is with Daddy Yankees album Prestige, in 2015, Nicky Jam won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Performance. Hasta el Amanecer was released on January 15,2016 on U. S. radios, billboard called the song a sultry, sexy reggaetón track that contains the singers trademark catchy melodic hooks. Still a hopeless romantic, here Jam pines after a girl he met at the laundromat, the music video was viewed over 53 million times on YouTube after three weeks. Studio albums 1994. Distinto A Los Demás 2001, Haciendo Escante 2003, Salón de La Fama 2004, Vida Escante 2005, Vida Escante, Special Edition 2007, The Black Carpet 2017, Fenix Official website
