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| | DADDY YANKEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Recently, Daddy Yankee performed at the MTV Music Awards, held in Miami, Fla., alongside with the top hip hop acts in the country, leading the way for his forthcoming solo album, due sometime next year, a mostly bilingual affair crafted with mega-crossover in mind. |
 | | Known in the music scene as Daddy Yankee, “El Cangri” and King of Improvisation, Raymond Ayala was born on February 3rd, 1977 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. |
 | | Yankee grew up playing baseball, a young kid from the Villa Kennedy housing projects in San Juan, the son of a salsa drummer and a manicurist, with three siblings, a hard scrabble existence and a dream of becoming the next Roberto Clemente. |
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