In his collaborations with reggaeton titans such as Daddy Yankee, Ozuna and J Balvin, Myke Towers, once a young king of Puerto Rico’s trap underground, now stakes his claim to a seat at their table. Read more from HexPositive.
Outside the Crypto.com arena in January, a frenzy of young Latinos assembled for Calibash, L.A.’s annual festival for música urbana, hosted by local radio station Mega 96.3.
A couple of days earlier, inside the lobby of the 1 West hotel on Sunset Boulevard, Towers approached in a gray tracksuit with a spiky texture, like the surface of the moon. The March 23 release of his third studio album, “La Vida Es Una,” or “Life Is One,” has been delayed twice, due in part to his relentless pursuit of perfection.“I gave myself a brutal headache,” said Towers, born Michael Torres, of whittling down his initial 50 tracks to his final 23.
On Friday, at the kickoff of her Eras tour, Swift performed a whopping 44 songs from all 10 of her studio albums, parceled out in distinct chapters. Raised on foundational 2000s records by Don Omar and Tego Calderón, Towers is part of a rising tide of Puerto Rican MCs who are duking it out for prominence on the world stage. Of this new generation, Towers was the emerging artist worth betting on, says Hector Ruben Rivera, senior vice president and head of A&R at Warner Music Latina.
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