Payaso x Ley cleared up all doubts with a 32-second video: the Cuban artist recorded himself in the shower singing a cappella the famous operatic-style intro of his song "Un Tin," and the result confirms that behind that lyrical voice, there is a high-level musical production.
Since the song was released, many fans have been wondering if it was really him singing that part or if it was someone else with classical training. The clip, published on April 25, answers the question: yes, it is his voice, but the difference between the raw version and the produced one is vast.
In the video, Payaso x Ley's voice sounds noticeably different and out of tune compared to the recorded version, highlighting the processing and production work that transformed that material into the intro that everyone hears today.
«Un Tin» was released on April 20 under the Befocus Music label, featuring collaboration with Rowell Urban and production by Ernesto Losa. The artist himself describes it as «a cast with opera», an unprecedented fusion that no one has attempted before within the genre.
This is the first documented instance in which the Cuban reparto merges with classical European operatic singing. The genre, which originated in Havana around 2007, incorporates elements of timba, rumba, and guaguancó, but had never crossed into opera before.
The bet turned out to be a phenomenon. “Un Tin” has accumulated over 4.6 million views and nearly 48,000 likes on YouTube, and a 45-second clip of the operatic section went viral on social media, generating dozens of reels.
The impact reached every corner of the Cuban community. A grandmother from the account @julia.martin.juli, known as "La Abuela del Reparto," danced to "Un Tin" in a video that surpassed 154,000 views on TikTok, and another clip from @la_mas_viral_de_cuba featuring a grandmother dancing to the same song also exceeded 150,000 views.
The shower video, released just four days after the official music video, emerges in that context of massive curiosity about the authenticity of the operatic voice and becomes an involuntary demonstration of the power of modern musical production.
Payaso x Ley has 956,500 monthly listeners on Spotify and his previous track, "Las Ganas" featuring Musteerifa, surpassed five million views on YouTube. With "Un Tin," the artist solidifies his position as one of the most creative figures in the current Cuban music scene.
A user on YouTube summed it up like this since the release day: "The song is going to hit big mainly because of the intro; they should have made it the chorus, and it would have broken the charts."
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