José Álvaro Osorio Balvin, known also as J Balvin, is a Colombian singer and composer of reggaeton and urban music. Balvin was born on May 7, 1985, in Medellín, Colombia and is the son of José Álvaro Osorio and Alba Mery Vásquez. At the age of 14, he began to be interested in urban music, making rhymes and improvisations of hip-hop.
After finishing school he traveled to Oklahoma through a cultural exchange, he also traveled to New York, where he would become more passionate about the urban genre. He studied international business and social communication but dropped out of school in his third year, with the aim of seeking a future in music.
In 2004, J Balvin launched his first single “Panas” with which he started to enter the world of reggaeton. In 2006, motivated to be recognized in music, released two other singles “Simple” and “The Beach”.
Around 2009, the artist became popular in Colombia thanks to the release of his song “Ella me cautivó” which helped him to earn important recognition as the Artist Revelation in the radio station La Mega, Artist of summer of the 40 principales radio station and the Composer revelation by the government of Antioquia.
Thanks to the success of the song “Ella me cautivó” J Balvin signed a recording contract with Machete Music and a second later with EMI Music. After signing with these two music companies, the artist released his first album titled “Real” on May 7, 2010, which was a national success that allowed him to win a Golden Disc. In that year, his song “Ella me cautivó” came to the United States, where it was very well received and ranked among the 40 most important songs on the Tropical Songs chart of Billboard.
J Balvin would continue releasing his singles “Sin Compromiso”, “Me gustas tú” and “En lo Oscuro”, this last song would become a total success over time, and for the first time J Balvin had a song as the number one position in the national music ranking of his country. After the good reception of his songs in Colombia and some Latin American countries, the singer wanted to venture more into the international market, so he began in the United States as Boston, New Jersey, Miami, Orlando and New York.
In 2011, the singer released his second album “El Negocio” with which he began his tour of concerts in Europe, where he had great reception selling out all the scenarios where he was.
On February 28, 2012, he released a compilation mixtape with some of his most famous songs. In these months, the success that J Balvin was having earned him “The best artist of the year” in the Shock and Nuestra Tierra awards. In mid-2012, another single was released “Yo te lo dije” which reached the top positions in several Colombian radio stations; in the United States, it reached position 13 of Hot Latin Songs and number 9 of Latin Pop Songs of Billboard magazine. The song also reached the second place of Latin rhythm airplay. In that semester, “Tranquila” was also released, a song that once again ranked among the first in the national lists and represented, with “Yo te lo dije” the platinum certifications of the RIAA for the Latin market.
The singer would release of his single “Sola” in 2013, which achieved the first position in several charts of Colombia and was certified by the RIAA. A few months later, J Balvin released his song “6 AM” in collaboration with Farruko, which managed to occupy the position of Hot Latin Songs and the first position in Latin Rhythm Airplay for several consecutive weeks; nationally he won 3 platinum albums for the success of that song. The song “6 AM” was the first song of the artist to enter a musical list in Europe, where it was placed in the position number 22 of the PROMUSICAE list in Spain and obtained 2 platinum albums, besides, it was the first song in English that won a diamond disc in the United States. The success of the song won the awards for best urban song and best urban collaboration.
On October 23, 2013, he released his third album “La Familia” under the musical signatures of Capitolio Latino and EMI Music México. This production was placed in the top ten positions of Billboard’s Top Latin Albums, won 5 platinum albums in Colombia, a platinum record in Peru, a platinum record in Romania, two platinum albums in Mexico and Chile and a Gold record in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Argentina.
The artist continued to make good music, and in 2014, he released his song “Ay Vamos” with which he achieved his second diamond certification and for the first time was positioned in the first place of Hot Latin Songs. A year later, he would win the Latin Grammy Award for the best urban song. In that same year, he released his single “Ginza” which had great national success and internationally entered the Billboard Hot 100 list, with that song, J Balvin won platinum records in Spain and the United States, and a record of gold in Mexico; “Ginza” also became the first song of the Colombian singer to reach the first position in Italy, where he was awarded a platinum record; and in countries like Netherlands, Switzerland and Slovakia was among the best 50 songs of some music listings.
In 2016, he became the first Colombian artist to sing at the Sanremo Song Festival, where he performed the song “Ginza” Throughout the year 2017, J Balvin launched songs that stood out for being musical success, as they are: Mi Gente, Si Tu Novio te Deja sola, Ahora dice, and Bonita. In addition, he has counted with the participation of artists of the moment such as Ozuna, Bad Bunny, Jowell, and Randy, among others.
J Balvin is characterized by composing his songs based on his own experiences and his career as a singer, which have led him to stardom and to be recognized throughout the musical world.
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