Bad Bunny

Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, born March 10, 1994, in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, is the most-streamed artist on Spotify for multiple consecutive years and the most commercially dominant Spanish-language music artist in history, a performer whose fusion of reggaeton, Latin trap, hip-hop, cumbia, R&B, and pop has made him a global cultural force while maintaining an authentic connection to his Puerto Rican roots and the social struggles of the Latin diaspora. Growing up in Vega Baja in a working-class family, he sang in his church choir as a child and later studied audiovisual communication at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo while uploading tracks to SoundCloud. The track Diles (2016), uploaded while he was bagging groceries at a supermarket to pay his tuition, went viral and led directly to a management deal and record contract with Rimas Entertainment. International breakthrough came through features on Cardi B's I Like It (2018). X 100pre (2018), YHLQMDLG (2020), El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (2020, the first all-Spanish-language album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200), Un Verano Sin Ti (2022, winner of the Grammy for Best Musica Urbana Album and the most-streamed album in Spotify history for multiple years), and Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana (2023) represent one of the most extraordinary commercial runs in contemporary music. He was the most-streamed artist on Spotify globally in 2020, 2021, and 2022 for three consecutive years — a record. He also wrestles for WWE and has appeared in major Hollywood films including Bullet Train (2023).