Daddy Yankee first burst onto the scene when he appeared on DJ Playero's 1992 mixtape, Playero 34, but it wasn't until his 2004 mainstream breakthrough album [1], Barrio Fino, that he turned into a household name. Not only is the sexy 40-year-old musician [2] known as the "King of Reggaeton," but he transformed himself into an international name brand by the time his 2007 album, El Cartel: The Big Boss, was released.
Since then, he's gone on to win a Grammy, signed a clothing line deal with Reebok, received a star [3] in the Paseo de la Fama in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and he's even made a guest appearance on CBS's soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Daddy Yankee has come a long way, to say the least. Keep reading and see just how far.