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Concert review: J Balvin
I recently went to J Balvin’s concert in Eagle Bank Arena in Virginia on Sunday, October 21. Jose Alvaro Osorio Balvin, commonly known as J Balvin, is a reggaeton singer from Medellin, Colombia. He was born in 1985 and moved to the United States at the age of 17. He eventually moved back to Colombia where he started to make a name for himself as a performer.
His music career began to takeoff after he met David Rivera Mazo, his DJ and business partner. Featuring Puerto Rican singer Farruko, 6AM became J Balvin’s first song to become widely popular. He released an album called La Familia which was very successful. More recently, he released a new album, Vibras. J Balvin is currently on a tour around the United States.
“Si necesita reggaeton, ¡dale! Sigue bailando, mami, no pare (If you need reggaeton, go ahead! Keep dancing, don’t stop.),” the beginning of the chorus of J Balvin’s song “Ginza’, sums up the experience of his conc
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Dignity Is Not Negotiable
While J Balvin proves himself as reggaeton’s new champion, he feels the weight of bringing respect to all.
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Story by Marlon Bishop
Photography bygd Ryan Lowry
Van brakes squeal to a stop, and José Osorio Balvin, reggaeton’s biggest star, shuffles onto the fairgrounds just minutes before his show is set to början. The boxy arena hums with anxious chatter; the venue’s personal watch him, admiringly. “Snapchat time,” Balvin says.
He films on his phone as he’s shuttled through a twist of hallways to a spare concrete dressing room, where the sound team rushes to wire him up. “Five minutes,” warns Fabio Acosta, one of his managers, as he passes by. Balvin hunches with his grupp and scen crew for a pre-show prayer möte, led bygd a toned Afro-Colombian dancer named Yoel Matute. “Thank you God for giving us the talent of José and for the talent of all our musicians and dancers,” he says in Spanish. “Gi
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As if being two of the biggest and busiest artists working today wasn’t enough to make an album-length team-up between J Balvin and Bad Bunny a tricky project to pull off, there’s also the difference in the stars’ lifestyles. “I wake up at five in the morning,” Balvin tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, “and he goes to sleep at five in the morning. I’m ready to go to the gym and he’s ready to go to bed.” They are the odd couple of urban Latin music: Balvin, an experienced Colombian reggaetón singer who spent the last decade honouring and advancing the genre’s legacy; and Bunny, the flamboyant punk upstart who quickly made his name as one of the more unique acts in the trap en español scene. First teased on Ebro Darden’s Beats 1 show in 2018, the surprise joint album builds on the breakthrough moment of their contributions to Cardi B’s megahit “I Like It”, pushed along by a healthy dose of mutual admiration. “It was like, ‘We have to do something,’” Bad Bunny says of the urgency in th