The DEY

Although trio of musicians who constitute the DEY didn’t grow up jointly, their interests, both personal and musical, were similar more than enough that whenever they ultimately met they knew immediately that they ought to interact. MC Divine, who was simply created and spent a lot of his existence within the South Bronx but shifted to Puerto Rico in 1998, got first met vocalist Élan Luz Rivera (who was raised in NY and produced her 1st appearance on Broadway by age group 16, when she performed Cookie within the musical The Capeman) at Miami’s Soulfrito Event in the first 2000s, where these were both carrying out, nonetheless it wasn’t until 2005 that these were released again. By this time around, Divine had currently installed with Yeyo, a Puerto Rican MC who got made splashes within the island’s underground hip-hop picture in 1999 when he released the politically billed “Viequez,” along with whom he previously connected immediately (the night time they fulfilled they documented a music that finished up on the air). Phoning themselves the DEY, the three proceeded to go into Yeyo’s Miami studio room, where they started working on their very own material, a combined mix of metropolitan R&B, Latin, hip-hop, and pop designed to possess cross-cultural (and vocabulary) appeal. Authorized to Epic, they started recording the paths that would find yourself on both their EP, The DEY Offers Arrive (2007), and their debut full-length, however, not before co-writing and carrying out in vocalist Paula DeAnda’s music “LEAVE.”