El siete de mayo/May 7th
Photo from GQ Magazine, July 2017, in an article about Balvin's pop-up store in the Paris boutique Colette. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... J. Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin)! (1985- ) A musician from Medellín, Colombia whose breakthrough came in 2012 with the song Yo te lo dije , an international hit, Balvin has been composing and performing music since he learned to play the guitar at age 12. Though he is known now as a reggaeton star, he started as a grunge rocker obsessed with Metallica and Nirvana (he has a Nirvana tattoo on his knee). He credits Daddy Yankee for inspiring him to go into reggaeton, though he also acknowledges Héctor Lavoe and Snoop Dogg as influential. At this point, he has collaborated with numerous artists on a variety of projects, including Beyoncé (and her daughter Blue Ivy) for a remix of his hit single Mi Gente in 2017 (click HERE for more on that). The original Mi Gente video on YouTube now has more than 1.7 billio...