J Balvin

José Álvaro Osorio Balvín is a Colombian reggaeton singer and record producer better known as J Balvin. He was born in Medellín, Colombia on May 7, 1985. With a very consolidated musical career, Balvin is one of the representatives of the genre that has had the most success internationally, managing to place many of his songs in the top positions of the main music lists. success.

His first album made him known in Colombia and with the second La familia, released in 2013, he received great international recognition by achieving gold and platinum records in several countries thanks to his multi-award-winning song 6 AM in collaboration with the Puerto Rican Farruko and with which he managed to reach the top positions in the Billboard charts and be the first single in Spanish to become a diamond record in the United States. The song won two Lo Nuestro Awards, for best song and urban collaboration.

In 2015, he went on a Sex and Love Tour of Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull.

That same year he released Ginza, which corresponds to his third studio album Energía. The song became Balvin's first song to enter the main Billboard Hot 100 chart where it remained at the top for twenty-one consecutive weeks in addition to achieving first place in Spain (platinum record), Mexico (gold record), Italy and the USA. (platinum record) With this song the Colombian performed in 2016 at the Sanremo Song Festival in Italy, being the first representative of his country to do so.

He has been a 4-time winner of the Granmy Latinos for which he has been nominated many times.

In 2017 he recorded with the French singer and producer Willy WilliamMi gente, another of his most popular songs that he sang at the Super Bowl LIV halftime show, held on February 2, 2020, where they also participated Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. On that occasion he also performed Que Calor.

In 2017 for the soundtrack of the film Fast and Furious 8, she recorded her first song in English Hey Ma with the Cuban-American Pitbull and the Cuban Camila Cabello. The latter has praised the singer several times, whom she has said has been an inspiration to her.

Balvin has publicly acknowledged that he suffers from depression and that he takes medication. The musician thus aims to give visibility to an illness that he says it was difficult for him to recognize and his references to the subject are frequent, such as within the framework of World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10) when he told journalist Enrique Santos about his personal experience.

In September 2020, Time magazine selected him as one of the most influential people in the world.

In July 2020, the Colombian sent a message to the Cuban violinistZamir Muñoz HernandezKnown for the versions he makes with his violin of urban genre songs.

In August 2020, former President Obama Obama shared a list of his favorite summer music that included One Day by J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Dua Lipa. In 2018 Obama had referred to the Colombian during a speech in which he asked the audience "Who doesn't like J Balvin and reggaeton?" thus validating the presence of Latin music within the United States.

In February 2021, he announced his paternity with his girlfriend, the Argentine model. Valentina Ferrer.