Ozuna: The Life Story Behind the Latin Star

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Ozuna life story, a symbolic scene inspired by Puerto Rico and a career in singer and songwriter.
In this post
  1. The debut that made Odisea a landmark
  2. Nibiru, ENOC, and the discipline of the follow-up
  3. The label, the screen, and the man at home
  4. The collaborator everyone calls first
  5. Puerto Rico, pride, and the weight of home
  6. Why the Ozuna story still matters
  7. My Take:

Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado was born on 13 March 1992 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the first fact of his life is also the hardest one. His father, a dancer who worked with the reggaeton artist Vico C, was killed when Ozuna was only three years old. He has spoken about that loss in interviews as an adult, describing a childhood shaped by absence rather than by show business. His mother could not raise him alone, so much of his upbringing fell to his grandmother, and the house she kept in San Juan became the centre of his early world. There was music in it, there was church, and there was the discipline of a woman who expected her grandson to stay out of trouble in a neighbourhood where trouble was easy to find. Ozuna was not a child star. Nobody discovered him at eight and nobody groomed him for fame. He grew up poor enough that the dream of singing for a living looked unrealistic, and stubborn enough to hold on to it anyway.

At twelve he started singing seriously, and the first stages he knew were small ones: school events, church gatherings, local shows where the audience was mostly people who already knew his family. Reggaeton was all around him. San Juan in the 2000s was the engine room of the genre, with Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and Wisin y Yandel turning a Puerto Rican street sound into a continental movement, and a teenager with a clear, melodic voice could hear exactly where he might fit. Ozuna’s voice was his advantage from the start. It was softer and more melodic than the harder-edged delivery of many of his peers, closer to R&B than to street rap, and that softness later became his signature. He spent his teenage years writing songs and recording whenever he could afford studio time, which was not often. He worked ordinary jobs, including a period in New York, where he has said he lived with relatives and tried to find a way into the music business from the outside. The New York years did not make him famous, but they taught him how the industry looked from the far side of the door, and they gave him a reason to go back to Puerto Rico and build something at home instead of waiting to be chosen somewhere else.

The break, when it came, was not one song but a slow accumulation. In 2012 he released his first single, “Imaginando”, and spent the next few years releasing music independently and building a following in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The song that changed the arithmetic was “Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere”, released in 2016 with Arcángel and Farruko, which spread through Latin America on streaming and radio and gave Ozuna his first real chart presence. He followed it with “Dile Que Tú Me Quieres” and “Tu Foto”, songs that showed off the romantic, melodic reggaeton that would become his brand, and by the end of 2016 the industry in San Juan was treating him as the next big thing rather than a promising newcomer. He signed with the label Dímelo Vi and the producer collective that backed him, and the plan was deliberately old-fashioned: an album, a tour, and a run of singles that would keep his name on the radio for a full year before anyone asked him to carry a festival stage.

The debut that made Odisea a landmark

Odisea arrived in August 2017, and it did something debut albums in reggaeton rarely do: it held together as a complete record instead of a pile of singles. “Se Preparó” opened the album with a statement of intent, and “Dile Que Tú Me Quieres” gave it a romantic centre that radio stations across the Spanish-speaking world could play all day. The album also carried “Criminal”, his collaboration with Natti Natasha, which became one of the biggest Latin songs of the year and proved that Ozuna could share a track with another star without disappearing into it. Odisea spent weeks at the top of Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart and stayed on it for months, and its streaming numbers put Ozuna in a category with artists who had been famous for a decade. What made the record work was not novelty. It was the combination of a voice that sounded like no one else in the genre and a set of songs about love, jealousy and longing that listeners already knew by heart from their own lives. He toured the album hard, playing the United States, Latin America and Spain, and the audiences kept getting younger, a sign that his music was crossing from reggaeton fans to pop fans without him having to change his sound to chase them.

The year after Odisea was the year Ozuna became unavoidable. “Te Boté”, the remix with Casper Mágico, Nio García, Darell, Nicky Jam and Bad Bunny, dominated Latin charts in 2018, and then came “Taki Taki”, the DJ Snake track featuring Ozuna, Selena Gomez and Cardi B, which turned him into a global pop name. The song reached the top ten in dozens of countries, its video passed a billion views, and suddenly an artist who sang almost entirely in Spanish was a fixture on English-language pop radio. His second album, Aura, released in August 2018, arrived in the middle of that storm and held its own, carried by “Me Niego” with Reik and Wisin and by “Única”. Aura debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, an extraordinary position for a Spanish-language album at the time, and it confirmed that the Taki Taki moment was not a one-off. Ozuna was now the most-streamed Latin artist in the world by some measures, and he was doing it without recording in English, a fact he has pointed to with pride in interviews, arguing that Spanish-language music did not need translation to travel.

Nibiru, ENOC, and the discipline of the follow-up

Success at that speed usually breaks artists, and the test for Ozuna was what came after the peak. Nibiru, his third album, arrived in November 2019, named after the mythical planet and built around a science-fiction concept that included a short film and elaborate visuals. Its lead single, “Hasta Que Salga el Sol”, was a bright, summery track that became a hit, and the album showed an artist willing to spend money on presentation rather than coasting on streaming numbers. ENOC followed in September 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, and it was a different kind of record: longer, more collaborative, and more rooted in the sounds of the Caribbean, with features from J Balvin, Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Myke Towers and others. “Caramelo” and “Del Mar”, the latter with Doja Cat and Sia, kept him on the charts through a year when touring had stopped, and the album’s success proved that his audience would follow him through a long record rather than only through singles. In 2021 he released Los Dioses, a joint album with Anuel AA, a project the two had teased for years, and he made his acting debut on a large scale with a role in F9, the ninth Fast and Furious film, playing a younger version of a character connected to the franchise’s mythology. The film role was small but symbolic: a Puerto Rican reggaeton star standing in one of Hollywood’s biggest franchises, a long way from the church halls of San Juan.

The years that followed were about consolidation rather than reinvention. “La Funka” and “La Bachata” in 2022 gave him two more hits in different registers, the second a bachata that showed how comfortable he was stepping outside reggaeton entirely, and “Hey Mor” with Feid and “Monotonía” with Shakira the same year kept him in the centre of Latin pop conversation. His album Cosmo, released in 2023, and Afro, the same year’s companion project, leaned further into Afrobeat and Caribbean rhythms, reflecting a wider shift in Latin music toward African sounds. He has continued to release singles at a steady pace rather than chasing one giant album cycle, a strategy that suits the streaming era and suits an artist who has never liked long silences. Through all of it he has remained one of the most-streamed Spanish-language artists in the world, with multiple songs past a billion views on YouTube, a tally that at one point gave him a Guinness World Record for the artist with the most videos over one billion views. The numbers are real, but they only describe the surface. The more interesting fact is that he reached them without ever recording an English-language album, without a reinvention, and without leaving Puerto Rico behind.

The label, the screen, and the man at home

Beyond the recordings, Ozuna has built the infrastructure of a career meant to last. He founded his own label, Aura Music, giving himself a home for his own releases and a platform for younger artists, and he has invested in businesses in Puerto Rico, including ventures in sports and entertainment. He has spoken about wanting to own the means of his career rather than renting them from a major label forever, a lesson he learned watching older reggaeton artists sign away their catalogues. His acting work continued after F9, with appearances in films and a willingness to take roles that do not depend on his fame as a singer. He has also put his name to charity work in Puerto Rico, including donations and benefit appearances after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017, a disaster that hit close to home for an artist whose family still lives there. He has two children, a son and a daughter, with his long-term partner Taina Marie Meléndez, and he has kept his family life largely out of the spotlight, posting about them rarely and on his own terms. Fatherhood, by his own account, changed the way he thinks about time: the touring schedule that once looked like freedom started to look like absence, and he has spoken about trying to balance the two without giving up either.

The hardest chapter of his public life came in early 2019, when he confirmed that he had been the victim of an extortion attempt connected to a video recorded when he was a minor. He apologised publicly, said the video had been made when he was underage, and said he had paid money to people who threatened to release it. The episode was painful and widely reported, and it forced a conversation in Latin music about privacy, exploitation and the way young artists are treated before they have any power. Ozuna did not hide from it. He addressed it directly, cooperated with the authorities, and kept working, and the public response was, on balance, sympathetic rather than punitive. It was a reminder that the polished image of a global star can sit on top of a much messier reality, and that the same industry that celebrates a teenager’s talent rarely protects him. He has not built his public identity around that episode, and he does not need to. It is one chapter in a longer story, and the story since then has been one of steady work rather than scandal.

The collaborator everyone calls first

One measure of Ozuna’s standing is the list of artists who have asked him to be on their songs. It runs from reggaeton’s old guard to pop’s biggest names, and it keeps growing because he is easy to work with and hard to replace. Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, Karol G, Nicky Jam and Farruko have all recorded with him, and each collaboration sounds different, because Ozuna adjusts his voice to the song rather than forcing the song to adjust to him. On “Te Boté” he was one voice in a crowd of stars and still stood out. On “China”, the 2019 hit with Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G and J Balvin, he held the melodic centre of a track built for the dance floor. On “Baila Baila Baila”, the remix with Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Farruko and Anuel AA, he was part of a gathering of the genre’s biggest names that felt like a coronation. Outside the Latin world, his features on “Taki Taki” and “Del Mar” showed he could sing alongside English-language pop stars without sounding like a guest in someone else’s song. Producers like him for a practical reason too: he is fast in the studio, he arrives with melodies already worked out, and he does not need a dozen takes to find the right one. That professionalism is why the phone keeps ringing, and it is why his name appears on hits by other artists almost as often as on his own records.

The collaborations also show his range. He has sung bachata, merengue-influenced pop, R&B-flavoured ballads and hard reggaeton, and he has done it without the awkwardness that usually follows a singer out of his comfort zone. “La Bachata” was not a gimmick; it was a proper bachata, sung with the phrasing the genre demands, and it became one of his biggest solo hits of 2022. “Santo”, his 2022 collaboration with Christina Aguilera, paired him with one of pop’s most powerful voices and let him hold his own in Spanish while she sang around him. “Monotonía” with Shakira the same year was a different kind of test, a heartbreak ballad that required restraint rather than energy, and he delivered it without over-singing. These choices matter because they show an artist thinking about longevity. Reggaeton moves fast and its stars can date quickly, but a singer who can move between genres, who can sing a ballad as well as a club track, has more places to go when the fashion changes. Ozuna has spent his career building those places, one collaboration at a time.

Puerto Rico, pride, and the weight of home

Ozuna has never pretended to be from anywhere else. His interviews return to San Juan, his videos are full of Puerto Rican streets and faces, and his Spanish carries the island’s cadence. That matters more than it might seem, because Puerto Rico’s relationship with the music industry has always been complicated: the island produces the talent, and the money and the credit often end up in Miami, New York or Los Angeles. Ozuna has pushed against that pattern by keeping his operations in Puerto Rico, by working with Puerto Rican producers and songwriters, and by talking openly about the island’s struggles, including the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, which left much of the island without power for months and exposed the fragility of its infrastructure. He donated money and took part in relief efforts, and he has continued to speak about Puerto Rico’s needs in interviews rather than treating the island as a backdrop for his videos. For young artists in San Juan, his career is proof that the road to the world does not have to run through a record label’s office in another country. It can start in a grandmother’s house, in a church hall, in a studio paid for with money earned from an ordinary job, and it can end on the biggest stages in the world without the singer having to become someone else along the way.

That loyalty has a cost, and Ozuna has paid it in the form of expectations. In Puerto Rico, a star of his size is not just an entertainer; he is a representative, and every choice he makes is read as a statement about the island. When he succeeds, the whole island claims a share of it. When he stumbles, the criticism is louder at home than anywhere else. He has handled that pressure by staying close to his family, by keeping his private life private, and by letting the work speak for itself. He does not court controversy and he does not pick fights in public, a contrast with some of his peers who have built careers on feuds and headlines. The result is a public image that is unusually clean for a star of his size: a singer known for his voice, his work rate and his loyalty to home, rather than for drama. It is not the most exciting image in Latin music, but it is a durable one, and durability is what separates a decade-long career from a two-year run. Ozuna has already lasted a decade at the top, and the habits that got him there, the discipline, the loyalty, the refusal to chase every trend, are the same habits that should keep him there.

Why the Ozuna story still matters

Ozuna’s career matters because it answers a question that Latin music spent a decade asking: could a Spanish-language artist become a global pop star without crossing over into English? The answer, in his case, is yes, and the proof is in the charts, the streaming numbers and the festival stages. He did it with a voice that is unmistakably his own, with songs about ordinary feelings rather than spectacle, and with a work rate that has rarely slowed since 2016. He also matters for what he represents in Puerto Rico, an island that has produced an extraordinary share of the world’s reggaeton stars and has rarely seen the money and the credit stay at home. Ozuna has kept his base in Puerto Rico, invested there, and spoken about the island as home rather than as a stepping stone, and that loyalty counts for something in a place that has watched too many of its stars leave. He is still young, still releasing music, and still capable of surprising his audience, as the bachata turn of “La Bachata” showed. The arc from a grandmother’s house in San Juan to the biggest stages in the world is complete, but the career is not finished, and the next chapter will be decided by the same thing that decided the first one: whether the songs are good enough, and whether the voice that sang them at twelve is still the one people want to hear.

There is also a simpler reason the story holds up: Ozuna looks like he enjoys the work. Watch him on stage and the pleasure is visible, not performed, in the way he moves through a set, the way he hands the chorus to the crowd, the way he treats a festival headline like a neighbourhood party that got bigger than anyone expected. That joy is hard to fake and harder to sustain over a decade of touring, recording and promotion, and it is part of why audiences keep coming back. Careers in pop music are often described as machines, and Ozuna has certainly built one, with a label, a catalogue and a global audience. But the machine only works because the person at the centre of it still sounds like the twelve-year-old who started singing in San Juan because he loved the sound of his own voice filling a room.

My Take:

The first thing I keep coming back to with Ozuna is how unlikely his position should have been. A boy who lost his father at three, raised by his grandmother in San Juan, with no industry connections and no money, is not supposed to become one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. The music business is supposed to reward the well-connected, the well-funded and the well-placed. Ozuna’s career is a long argument against that idea, and it is worth paying attention to precisely because it does not follow the usual script. He did not win a television contest. He did not go viral by accident. He did not get adopted by a famous mentor who opened every door. He built his audience one song at a time, in one of the most competitive music scenes in the world, and he did it with a voice that was softer than the fashion of the moment. That is the part of the story that matters most to me, because it is the part that can actually be copied. You cannot copy luck. You can copy showing up, year after year, with better songs than the year before.

What strikes me about his voice is that it was never the obvious choice for reggaeton stardom. The genre’s biggest stars tend to have harder, more aggressive deliveries, voices built for the club and the street. Ozuna sings like an R&B singer who wandered into a reggaeton studio and decided to stay, and that softness gave him an advantage nobody planned for. It meant his songs could play on pop radio, in romantic playlists, in places where harder reggaeton could not go. It meant women listened as much as men, and it meant his music travelled to countries where reggaeton was still new, because a melody is easier to love than a flow. I think a lot of young artists misunderstand this. They try to sound like whoever is biggest right now, and they end up sounding like a copy. Ozuna sounded like himself from the start, and the market came to him. That is a harder path at the beginning and a much better one in the long run, because nobody can replace you when you are the only person who sounds like you.

The Odisea period is the part of his career I admire most, because it shows what happens when preparation meets timing. By the time the album came out in 2017, he had been releasing music for five years. He had learned how to write a chorus, how to pick a feature, how to survive a flop. So when the moment arrived, he was ready for it in a way that a newcomer would not have been. Too many artists get their big break before they are ready and then spend the rest of their careers trying to live up to a moment they did not understand. Ozuna got his break after the apprenticeship, and the album shows it: it is coherent, confident and patient, a record by someone who knows what he is doing. I would point any young musician at Odisea and say, this is what five years of invisible work sounds like when it finally gets a stage.

Taki Taki is the moment I find most interesting to think about, because it could have gone wrong in so many ways. A Spanish-language reggaeton singer on a track with Selena Gomez and Cardi B, produced by a French DJ, could easily have become a novelty, a guest appearance that nobody remembered. Instead it became one of the biggest songs of 2018, and Ozuna held his own in it. What I take from that is a lesson about crossover that most artists get backwards. The usual crossover strategy is to change yourself to fit the bigger market: sing in English, soften your sound, hide where you come from. Ozuna did the opposite. He sang in Spanish, he sounded like himself, and the bigger market came to him. That only works if your music is strong enough to cross the language barrier on its own merits, and his was. It also helped that he did not treat Taki Taki as a destination. He went back to making Spanish-language albums, he kept his base in Puerto Rico, and he treated the global moment as a door rather than a new address. That discipline is rarer than talent.

The 2019 extortion episode is the part of his story I think about with the most sympathy, and the most anger at the industry around him. A video recorded when he was a minor, used to extort money from him as an adult, is not a scandal about Ozuna. It is a scandal about a system that treats young artists as content before it treats them as people. What impressed me was his response. He did not hide, he did not lie, and he did not let it define him. He apologised for the part that was his, he cooperated with the authorities, and he went back to work. There is a kind of dignity in that which is easy to miss, because dignity does not make headlines the way drama does. I think the episode also explains something about his later career: the caution, the privacy, the refusal to court controversy. When you have been through something like that in public, you learn the value of a quiet life, and you learn it young.

What I like least about the way Ozuna is sometimes discussed is the way his success gets reduced to numbers. The streaming totals, the billion-view videos, the Guinness record: they are real, and they are impressive, but they tell you nothing about why the music works. Numbers are the result, not the reason. The reason is the voice, the melodies, the songs about love and jealousy that people recognise from their own lives, and the work rate that has kept him releasing music for a decade without a long break. I wish more coverage of Latin music spent time on the songs rather than the statistics, because the statistics will date and the songs will not. Odisea will still sound good in twenty years. The streaming record for most billion-view videos will be broken by someone else, probably soon, and it will not matter.

The business side of his career is the part I think other artists should study most carefully. Founding Aura Music, investing in Puerto Rico, keeping control of his catalogue and his operations: these are not glamorous choices, and they do not get applause at award shows, but they are the difference between a star who is rich for five years and a star who is secure for life. Too many artists from Puerto Rico and across Latin America have watched their money and their rights end up in other people’s hands, in other cities, under contracts they signed when they were too young and too broke to negotiate. Ozuna seems to have learned that lesson early, either from watching others or from his own experience, and he has built his career like someone who intends to own it. That is not just smart. It is a political act, in a small way, because it keeps money and jobs in Puerto Rico, and it shows younger artists that there is another way to do this.

His acting career is the part I am most cautious about, because it could easily become a distraction. The F9 role was well chosen: small, symbolic, and in a franchise where a reggaeton star fits naturally. But the history of singers who try to become actors is full of people who diluted their music chasing a second career that never quite worked. Ozuna’s music is too good to be a side project. My hope is that he treats acting the way he has treated everything else in his career: carefully, selectively, and always in service of the music rather than instead of it. The fact that he has not rushed into a flood of film roles suggests he understands this. He seems to know what his centre is, and that is a rarer quality than it sounds. Most stars lose their centre eventually, usually because they start believing their own publicity. Ozuna, so far, has not.

The collaborations tell me something important about his character, and it is not what you might expect. In an industry full of egos, he is known as an easy collaborator, someone who shows up prepared, sings his part well, and does not try to dominate the track. That is why the phone keeps ringing. Producers and other artists want to work with people who make the session better rather than harder, and Ozuna has built a reputation as that person. I think this is undervalued as a career strategy. People talk about talent and marketing and timing, and they forget that a large part of a long career is simply being someone other professionals want to be around. Ozuna’s catalogue is full of songs that exist because another artist wanted him on the track, and that is a kind of success that cannot be bought. It has to be earned, session by session, year by year.

What his career says about Puerto Rico is something I keep returning to, because it cuts against the usual story about small places and big dreams. The usual story says you have to leave. You have to go to Miami, to New York, to Los Angeles, and you have to become someone else to succeed. Ozuna left, briefly, and came back, and built his career at home. That matters for the young artists in San Juan who are watching him, because it tells them the road does not only run in one direction. It also matters for Puerto Rico itself, which has spent years watching its talent leave and its money follow. A star who stays, who invests, who keeps his family and his operations on the island, is doing something that goes beyond music. He is making an argument about where a career can be built, and he is making it with his life rather than with a speech.

I also think about the father he lost at three, and how that loss sits underneath the whole story without ever being the whole story. He has spoken about it honestly but without self-pity, and he has never used it as a marketing tool. That restraint is worth noting, because the music industry loves a sad backstory and will happily turn one into a brand. Ozuna has refused to let his father’s death become his brand, and that refusal tells me something about his character. The loss shaped him, clearly, in the discipline his grandmother instilled and in the seriousness with which he treats his own children. But he is not selling the loss. He is selling songs, and the loss is private, where it belongs. There is a lesson in that for anyone who has been through something hard and is tempted to turn it into a performance. You do not owe the public your pain. You owe them your work.

If there is a criticism I would make, it is that his albums sometimes feel longer than they need to be. ENOC ran to twenty songs, and not all of them earned their place. In the streaming era, long albums make commercial sense, because every track is another chance at a playlist, but they can dilute the impact of the best songs. Odisea was tighter, and it is still his best album for that reason. I would rather have twelve great songs than twenty good ones, and I think Ozuna at his best understands that. Cosmo and Afro showed him experimenting with shorter, more focused projects, and I hope that is the direction he continues in, because his best work has always been concentrated rather than sprawling. This is a small criticism, and it comes from admiration rather than disappointment. The fact that his weakest habit is releasing too much music is a good problem for an artist to have.

The question I ask myself about Ozuna’s future is whether he can keep growing without losing what made him special. The danger for any artist who has been at the top for a decade is repetition: the same sounds, the same collaborations, the same moves, until the audience moves on. The bachata turn of La Bachata and the Afrobeat leanings of Afro suggest he is aware of that danger and is looking for new places to go. He does not need to reinvent himself. He needs to keep finding new rooms for the same voice, and he needs to keep writing songs that feel like they come from a real place rather than from a formula. If he does that, there is no reason he cannot be making relevant music in another ten years. The voice is still there, the audience is still there, and the discipline is still there. The rest is a matter of taste and timing, and he has shown good judgement on both.

What I would say to a young artist looking at Ozuna’s career is this: learn the lesson of the apprenticeship. Five years of invisible work before the breakthrough. Five years of small stages, cheap studios and ordinary jobs. That is not wasted time. That is the time when you learn to write a song, to sing it properly, to survive a flop, to know who you are. The artists who skip that stage usually pay for it later, when the fame arrives and they have nothing underneath it. Ozuna had something underneath it, because he had spent years building it when nobody was watching. That is the real secret of his career, and it is not a secret at all. It is work, done quietly, for a long time, until the world noticed. Everything else, the billions of streams, the awards, the film roles, the records, is decoration. The work is the thing.

In the end, what I admire most about Ozuna is the steadiness. He has not had a public meltdown, he has not picked fights with his peers, he has not chased every trend until he lost himself. He has made music, raised his family, invested in his home, and kept going. That sounds simple, and it is the hardest thing in the world to do at his level of fame, for a decade, without a break. The music industry rewards drama and punishes boredom, and Ozuna has somehow built a career on being reliable, which is the most boring virtue there is and the most valuable one. I expect him to be here in ten years, still singing, still in Puerto Rico, still sounding like himself. That is not a prediction. It is a reading of the evidence, and the evidence, so far, has been remarkably consistent.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where was Ozuna born?

Ozuna was born in 1992 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The place shaped the early life and the work that followed, and Ozuna has often been described as a proud representative of Puerto Rico on the world stage.

What is Ozuna best known for?

Ozuna is best known as a singer and songwriter, and for the single Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere, then the debut album Odisea. The work that followed turned that breakthrough into a lasting international career, with Taki Taki (2018) among the most recognised projects.

What was Ozuna’s breakthrough moment?

The breakthrough came through the single Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere, then the debut album Odisea. It was the moment when years of preparation met a wide audience, and it changed the scale of every opportunity that followed.

Has Ozuna won any major awards?

Yes, the career includes multiple Latin Grammy nominations and billions of streams, with several of the most-viewed Latin videos. Beyond formal awards, the lasting recognition has come from audiences and from younger artists who cite Ozuna as an influence.

What is Ozuna’s most famous work?

Many fans would point to Taki Taki (2018), his global hit with DJ Snake, Selena Gomez and Cardi B. Other landmark projects include Aura (2018) and Criminal (2017), and each one marked a different stage of the career.

What is Ozuna’s legacy?

one of the most-streamed Latin artists of the streaming era, known as El Negrito de Ojos Claros. The story continues, and the influence on new generations of artists from Puerto Rico is already clear.

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