After 32 years in the game, Daddy Yankee is retiring.

 

In a press release issued on Sunday (March 20), Daddy Yankee says, “Today, I’m announcing my retirement from music by giving you my best production and my best concert tour.  I will say goodbye celebrating these 32 years of experience with this new collector’s item, the album Legendaddy. I’m going to give you all the styles that have defined me, in one single album.”

 


 

Born Raymond Ayala, Yankee’s career exploded with the 2004 release ‘Gasolina,’ and throughout his 32-year career, he’s sold over 30 million records and in 2017, Yankee collaborated with Luis Fonsi on ‘Despacito,’ which was No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a record-breaking 16 weeks.

 

 

 

 

“This race, which has been a marathon, finally sees the finish line. Now, I am going to enjoy what all of you have given me.  People say that I made this genre worldwide, but it was you who gave me the key to open the doors to make it the biggest in the world,” Yankee said in a video statement  posted to YouTube (watch above).

 

Daddy Yankee’s new album ‘Legendaddy’ drops on March 24 and his upcoming La Última Vuelta World Tour kicks off on Aug. 10 in Portland, Oregon and will run through December, finishing in Mexico City.

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