Ozuna is a Puerto Rican singer and rapper, and one of the most popular and successful Latin American artists.
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- His full name is Juan Ozuna Rosado Delano.
- He was born on March 13th 1992.
- As of 2022, he is 30 years old.
- He is known simply by his surname Ozuna.
- He is from Puerto Rico.
- He was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- He decided to become a singer at age 12.
- He was influenced from the Latin American genres of reggaeton, salsa, and bachata.
- He’s a famous singer and rapper.
- All five of his studio albums have topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart.
- Aura (2018) charted at number seven on the Billboard 200.
- His musical style is primarily reggaeton and trap.
- He has also collaborated with artists spanning a variety of genres, including reggae, bachata, and moombahton.
- He made his musical debut in 2012 with the song «Imaginando», which attracted the attention of recording labels and led to collaborations with Daddy Yankee and Anuel AA.
- He released several singles before signing with Sony Music Latin in 2017, who funded the recording of his debut album Odisea.
- His 2018 collaboration with DJ Snake, Cardi B, and Selena Gomez on “Taki Taki” was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA.
- He released his third studio album, Nibiru on November 29, 2019.
- His fourth studio album, ENOC, was released in September 2020.
- Since the beginning of his career, he has sold around 15 million records.
- Ηε ισ one of the best-selling Latin American music artists of all time.
- On February 1st, 2019 Ozuna had the most one billion-view videos on YouTube of any artist.
- He has won two Latin Grammy Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards, four Guinness World Records, among other accolades.
- In 2019, Time included him on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
- He made his acting debut in the film Que León.
- He appeared in F9, the ninth film in the Fast & Furious franchise
- His father is Dominican and his mother is Puerto Rican.
- He grew up listening to traditional Latin genres such as salsa and bachata, which have influenced his musical style.
- He additionally enjoyed reggaeton artists Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Wisin y Yandel, which he refers to as “the real, real reggaeton”, as well as fellow American hip-hop and R&B artists Jay-Z and Usher.
- As stated in the eponymous opening track from his album Odisea, he grew up poor and was mainly raised by his paternal grandmother.
- His father, who worked as a dancer for reggaeton performer Vico C for three years, was fatally shot when Ozuna was three years old, and his mother was not financially stable enough to raise him.
- Ozuna was raised in his grandmother’s three-bedroom apartment built above a bodega in San Juan.
- His grandmother instilled a strong Christian faith in him. He explained that her philosophy centered around the ideal “that nothing is given to us, that you have to work for what you get…a pair of sneakers—we bought those with sacrifice. She would say the same of a pencil, an eraser, simple things. We had to sweat in order to get it.”
- When he was 12, his uncle, who served as a father-figure since his father’s death, gifted him his first microphone.
- His uncle often played music by Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and De La Ghetto, and the teenager would rap along with the songs on the microphone.
- To further his career, Ozuna took a job at a local bar called El Corozal, where his earliest musical performances took place.
- Hoping to escape the violence and poverty of his neighborhood, he moved to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in 2010.
- While there, the artist learned how to produce and promote his own music videos, and made his first video with a budget of under US$100.
- However, he viewed Washington Heights to be equally violent and impoverished as his hometown, and returned to Puerto Rico with his wife and two children after three years in New York.
- Ozuna describes himself as a “typical boricua with Dominican blood.”
- He is married to Taina Marie Meléndez, and they have two children, Sofía and Jacob Andrés.
- Ozuna is a collector of watches, a passion that began when his grandmother gave him a Toy Story watch when he was a child. He calls his watch collection his “greatest investment” and in 2017 alone, he spent over $800,000.
- In 2017, he started the charity organization Odisea Children.
- Aside from supporting the hospital with financial donations, Ozuna visited sick children in the San Jorge Hospital, in Santurce, San Juan at Christmas time in 2019, along with other reggaeton artists that he called to action.
- Rolling Stone reported that Ozuna said he was blackmailed in 2019. The blackmailer threatened to leak what was called an “explicit” video of him from back when he was 16.
- Ozuna’s father was shot and killed when he was three.
- His Zodiac sign is a Pisces.
- Ozuna is approximately 5 ft. 6 inches and weighs 143 pounds.
- He has light brown eyes that are one of his most distinctive feature. His light-colored eyes led to him being the nicknamed El negrito de ojos claros.
- Early in his career, he used to perform under the stage name of “J Oz”, but later change to one of his middle names – Ozuna.
- Ozuna has been featured in TV commercials for established car brand Toyota.
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