![]() ![]() ![]() Right off the bat, Balvin subverts his audience's expectations by taking what they already thought urban Latin music should sound like and cranking it up a notch. "One day I just woke up and I was like, Carla Morrison should open my album," Balvin says. Collaborations with genre veterans like Zion & Lennox on " No Es Justo" and Wisin & Yandel on " Peligrosa" most closely resemble his older tracks, but Vibras also reaches across the gap between Latin radio and SoundCloud with more experimental tracks like " Brillo," a three-minute flamenco R&B ballad with Catalan singer Rosalía and the title track, a prelude to the album that floats Mexican singer Carla Morrison's ethereal vocalizations above a sparse, wavy beat that eventually, in the greatest surprise of the album, becomes the familiar five-note riff of "Mi Gente." ![]() Vibras proves that Balvin and longtime producers Sky and Tainy can do more than write a radio-hit reggaeton song. In its wake, he's released a slew of collaborations and hits in 2018, including " X" with his close friend Puerto Rican-Dominican rapper Nicky Jam, " Familiar" with ex- One Direction member Liam Payne and a verse on Cardi B's " I Like It" that culminates with the line: "Y no te me hagas / Que en cover de Billboard tú has visto mi cara / No salgo de tu mente / Donde quieras que viajes has escuchado 'Mi Gente.' "ĭon't start with me / Because you've seen my face on the cover of Billboard / I don't leave your mind / Wherever you travel you've heard "Mi Gente." The 33-year-old Colombian reggaeton artist is still riding the success of last year's internet-breaking "Mi Gente," now at over 1.8 billion views on YouTube. J Balvin is ready to reclaim the music world for his people. In the history of world domination schemes, there hasn't been a conqueror that took over the Earth in Spanish since Christopher Columbus. "We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world," J Balvin says. ![]()
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