Gallego

Jose Raul Gonzalez, better recognized to reggaeton lovers world-wide as Gallego, was created in March of 1974 in Puerto Rico’s capitol town of San Juan. Gallego got his begin singing within the shower, progressing quickly to open public performances for the bus. Throughout his youthful years, he’d sing for fun and distraction, encircled by a culture that beliefs music highly. It had been throughout a 1989 visit to Nueva York (NYC) and his contact with Puerto Rican poets there that Gonzalez became totally enthralled with poetry and the energy of phrases. During his years on the College or university of Puerto Rico, Gallego participated within the creation of “La Marilla,” a motion of youthful Puerto Rican authors. His interest for phrases both created and spoken resulted in many recitals of his function in pubs and poetry areas, eventually getting him invites to Santo Domingo, Havanna, Paris and New York’s Nuyorrican Poet’s Café. His initial publication Barrunto arrived in 2000, which gained various national honours and accolades through the Latino literary community. Barrunto provides found its method into books curriculum both in U.S. and Puerto Rican Colleges. His status and youth gained him trustworthiness and probabilities to collaborate with much less educational poets like Puerto Rican superstars Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Eddie Dee among others. Beneath the MC name Gallego, Gonzalez was provided a cope with Machete Music release a his debut recording. His longtime like of music and enthusiasm for poetry had been united in his 2007 launch Teatro del Barrio. The record’s strike track “Mulata” announced Gallego as reggaeton’s following fearless innovator.