YEYO is a proven award wining artist/writer / producer in both the English and Spanish markets. Born in Cupey, Puerto Rico of a Cuban Father and Puerto Rican mother, the MC/writer/producer popularly known as Yeyo, is setting his mark in the world creating the very best of Latin urban music. Yeyo was the founder and one of three members of one of the first Puerto Rican hip hop groups, The Shanghai Assassinz.
In 1999, he made history with the production and release of the groups first single "Viequez". The song was inspired by and dedicated to the struggle that existed between Puerto Rico and the US Navy over military controlled land.
In 2001 he produced and recorded the theme song for the award winning Puerto Rican movie 12 Horas. In 2003 he moved to Miami with the purpose of taking his craft to another level via education and graduated top of his class in Audio Engineering.
In 2004 Yeyo masterminded La Conekta, a hip hop compilation that united the best Latino MCs from around the globe.
2005 was a life-changing year, he started his company, The Art of Sound Group Inc. and built a recording facility where he produces and records new and established artists under his imprint. That same year he signed a record deal with Epic records for his group **The DEY** along with his partners Divine and Elan and also landed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV.
In 2007 he co-wrote and appeared in the World Wide Pop Smash "Walk Away" with Paula DeAnda which hit #4 in the World charts for 28 weeks and earned him a '08 ASCAP award for most played Pop record of 2007.
In 2008 he toured across the United States and Asia with **The DEY**, their single "Give You The World" reaching #1 on MTV's charts. The group was the first to be featured on MTV's Discover & Download and MTV Tr3s' Descubre & Download simultaneously and were featured on MTV's Times Square Studios billboards. He was featured in Locos por Juana's single/video "Tu Sabes Muy Bien (La Nalga)" which earned him a '09 Grammy nomination, was on billboards across the US, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore,Vietnam, was part of the first pop music show in the history of Vietnam, performed in a Mother's Day Special for NBC, performed on Showtime at the Apollo, Sabado Gigante, Despierta America, Escandalo TV, MiTRL and Sean Kingstons Sweet 18 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica for MTV.
YEYO has worked in the studio with Timbaland, Stargate, Swizz Beats, Trackmasters, JR. Rotem, Akon, Fernando Garibai, Florida, José Feliciano, AB Quintanilla, Red One, Danger, Sean Kingston, Colby Odonis, Sade, Kymani Marley, Notch, amongst others. Along with his team of producers, he did the official 15 year anniversary of the Macarena with Los del Rio. He has just released his first solo project the 'Life of a Warrior' (EP) which will open the way for his Spanish and English language albums that are scheduled to drop late 2010.
His first single "Please DJ" hit #3 in the German Urban charts and was in the top 10 for 12 weeks. The video for the single premiered on March 15th, 2010 in MTV Tr3s and was so popular it was featured in MTV's Top 100 Dance Videos. He will be featured on AB Quintanillas & Kumbia All*Starz next album on the singles "Mentirosa" and "I'll be there for you", the only English language single on the All*Starz album. His follow up singles "I'll Take you there" and "Bad Boy" will be dropping Summer of 2010. He is currently writing and producing for Major artists for both Latin and US markets. YEYO is a proven award wining writer / producer in both English and Spanish as well as an experienced audio engineer.
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EPISODE 28 (HD): 2010 PUERTO RICAN FESTIVAL BOOTYby bigskilly50,969 views
@girraboyzz agree lol
xmamiiciitax 1 week ago
Puerto Rico = Ghetto
girraboyzz 8 months ago 2
yea, what's the name of this song?
sweetvaronica 9 months ago
does anyone kno tha name of tha song that starts this video
2011boricua 1 year ago
lookin hella fine
Norcalgirlys2957 1 year ago