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Nick Rivera Caminero was born March 17, 1980 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Dominican mother, and moved with his family to the Cantera barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico when he was around ten years old. He started rapping on street-corner mixtapes by the time he was a teenager and recorded his first formal track, Distinto a los Demas, in 1995 when he was fifteen — placing him among the earliest commercial-era artists in what was still being called underground reggaeton. The link-up with Daddy Yankee inside the Los Cangris duo across the early 2000s sat at the center of reggaeton's transition from Puerto Rican club genre to mainstream Latin format; the two were inseparable on mixtapes and at street events until a publicly aired falling-out put the partnership on ice for the better part of a decade. The years that followed were lean. He moved to Medellín, Colombia in the late 2000s to rebuild — personally, professionally, and creatively — and the city has been functionally his second home base ever since. The comeback record was Fenix in early 2017: El Amante, Hasta el Amanecer (released as a single in 2016), and El Perdón with Enrique Iglesias (released 2015) re-established him at the top of Latin urbano radio and at Premio Lo Nuestro and Latin Grammys. Intimo in 2019 leaned heavier into reggaeton-and-Latin-pop blends; INFINITY in 2021 brought collaborations with Daddy Yankee — including the El Cangri-reunion track Muévelo and the Pista Nueva-era cuts — and confirmed the public reconciliation between the two former duo partners. Insomnio in 2024 marked another stylistic widening, folding house, dembow, and Latin-trap textures alongside the romantic reggaeton he had become identified with. The FIFA partnership on Live It Up alongside Will Smith and Era Istrefi for the official song of the 2018 World Cup in Russia is the single largest mainstream non-Spanish-speaking-audience exposure of his career; the catalogue is otherwise predominantly Spanish-language. Film credits include Bad Boys for Life (2020) alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, and xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) alongside Vin Diesel. He has spoken openly across multiple interviews about the addiction and weight battles of his earlier years and the rebuild around them — a recurring theme in the lyrics across Fenix and Intimo. La Industria Inc. is the label umbrella that anchors much of his catalogue release infrastructure, alongside major-label distribution partners that have changed across cycles.

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