J Balvin Trivia | 50 facts about the «Prince of Reggaeton»

J Balvin is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and record producer, who has been referred to as the «Prince of Reggaeton».

Let’s find out more about the singer!

1. His full name is José Álvaro Osorio Balvín.
2. He was born on 7th of May 1985.
3. He is known professionally as J Balvin.
4. He is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and record producer.
5. He has been referred to as the “Prince of Reggaeton” from Spanish: “Príncipe del Reggaetón”.
6. He is one of the best-selling Latin artists, with over 35 million records.
7. J Balvin was born in Medellín.
8. At age 17, he moved to the United States to learn English, where he lived in both Oklahoma and New York.
9. He then returned to Medellín and gained popularity performing at clubs in the city.
10. Throughout his career, Balvin has won eleven Billboard Latin Music Awards, six Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards and seven Latin American Music Awards and received four Grammy Award nominations.
11. In 2017, the BMI Latin Awards named him the Contemporary Latin Songwriter of the Year for his contribution in the Latin music industry.
12. He has won the first Global Icon Award given by Lo Nuestro Awards, in recognition of his contribution to spread Latin music worldwide.
13. He became the first Latino to headline world-musical events such as Coachella, Tomorrowland, and Lollapalooza.
14. The Guinness World Records acknowledged him as a “leader of a second-generation reggaeton revolution”.
15. His breakthrough came in 2014 with the single “6 AM” featuring Puerto Rican singer Farruko, which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, followed by “Ay Vamos” and “Ginza”.
16. In 2016, he released Energia, which included the hit singles “Bobo”, “Safari”, and “Sigo Extrañándote”.
17. In June 2017, Balvin released the single “Mi Gente” with Willy William.
18. On 1 August 2017, “Mi Gente” topped the Global Top 50 on Spotify.
19. He later reached one billion views on YouTube.
20. In January 2018, he released the hit single “Machika” featuring Jeon and Anitta.
21. He collaborated with Cardi B and Bad Bunny on the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single “I Like It”, which was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
22. J Balvin released his most recent album José in March 2021.
23. Though his music is primarily reggaeto n, Balvin has experimented with a variety of musical genres in his work, including electronica, house music, trap, and R&B.
24. His original musical inspirations included rock groups such as Metallica and Nirvana, and reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee.
25. He has collaborated with Latin American artists such as Ozuna, Nicky Jam, Alejandro Sanz, Bad Bunny and Pitbull.
26. Despite working with many English-speaking artists such as Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, Black Eyed Peas, Cardi B, Dua Lipa and Major Lazer, J Balvin continues to sing almost exclusively in Spanish.
27. He also hopes to introduce Spanish-language music to a global audience.
28. He is also noted for his eclectic and colorful fashion sense.
29. J Balvin received the Vision Award from the Latin heritage Awards in 2016.
30. In 2019 he won the Golden Artist of Latin Urban Music at the Premios Heat.
31. In 2020 he was included on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people of the world.
32. He was called one of the Greatest Latin Artists of All Time by Billboard.
33. J Balvin is the artist with the most number one songs on the Billboard Latin Airplay chart.
34. He is also the only Latin artist to reach number one on the Billboard charts 174 times.
35. A remix of “Ay Vamos” by French Montana & Nicky Jam was featured on the soundtrack for Furious 7.
36. He has accumulated over one billion total views on YouTube.
37. Specifically over one billion of those total views belonging solely to the video for “Ay Vamos”.
38. Billboard has named him the “greatest discovery of Latin music in many years”.
39. His biggest inspirations are Daddy Yankee and Drake.
40. He created the only official “Sorry” remix released, to which he said, came about with Justin Bieber’s crew in an organic fashion.
41. He was an independent artist for eight years.
42. He even acted as his own manager, before he got signed by a label.
43. His dream is to collaborate with Rihanna and/or Drake, and have them “come to the [Latin] world”.
44. J Balvin currently has a total of 34 tattoos covering his body and has become part of his image over the years.
45. He loves tattoos in general and got his first one at the age of 12. This tattoo, which is located on the inside of his right bicep, is a tribal design. He had to get permission from his mother to get this one since he was underage.
46. The singer suffers from panic attacks that end up giving him temporary dementia.
47. In 2014, J Balvin made a firm stand by wearing red lipstick in support of abused women. This was in the international day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
48. His favorite animal is a tiger.
49. J Balvin’s net worth is estimated to be $16 million.
50. In 2018, J Balvin was Spotify’s most-streamed Latin artist.