By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, Related Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A 12 months after a collection of live shows in Puerto Rico that ended up being his final due to the pandemic, Daddy Yankee is bringing these performances to YouTube as a Christmas reward to his followers across the globe.
“DY2K20,” the digital model of his present “Con Calma Pal’ Choli,” can be launched in three components on Yankee’s YouTube channel, with the primary installment launched Friday. The others will drop on Dec. 14 and Dec. 21, respectively.
“I needed to present a Christmas current to all my followers in the course of the pandemic, carry the occasion to their houses freed from cost, carry them pleasure in such tough occasions,” the reggaeton star instructed The Related Press in a cellphone interview from Miami.
Yankee, who has stayed principally out of the highlight in 2020, mentioned that whereas the pandemic has hit many very exhausting, it has additionally allowed him to do one thing he hadn’t finished in three a long time: Concentrate on his well being and relaxation.
It is one thing he needed to regularly study after gaining 40 kilos (virtually 20 kilos) in the course of the first months of quarantine.
“Possibly due to the nervousness… I began consuming and consuming and consuming and I placed on the kilos like by no means earlier than. I received to weigh 230 kilos (105 kilos) … However I recovered my regular weight from 10 years in the past. That was my focus,” mentioned the “Despacito” and “Gasolina” singer, who mentioned he achieved his aim by watching what he ate and exercising, rather a lot.
“I devoted myself to my well being and to one thing that was unknown to me, which was relaxation,” he mentioned. “I began to learn to reside with calmness and to understand it… And I really feel completely different, I really feel in a brand new section fully.”
Now that he gained some steadiness in his life, he feels able to reactivate his profession. Along with the “DY2K20” launch, he has one other shock for his followers: A brand new music collaboration he’ll launch within the coming days, though he would not present particulars but.
For now, he mentioned he was blessed to lastly share with the world the footage of a present staged on the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, which concerned over 80 individuals who labored with “nice ardour, nice creativity.” It was well-received, going from two scheduled dates to a full residence, with 12 sold-out reveals, or 170,000 tickets.
What many do not know is {that a} technical drawback on opening night time resulted in a brand new enterprise alternative: Large live shows within the daytime, one thing by no means seen earlier than on the island.
After getting caught on a platform over the stage, Yankee introduced to the viewers that he would give them an additional present without cost, and it was a matinee. He adjusted the content material to make it household pleasant, and ended up doing yet one more that approach.
One other distinctive facet of “Con Calma Pal’ Choli,” which featured artists like Ozuna, Wisin & Yandel and Nicky Jam, was using holograms to interchange those that weren’t there to carry out life.
“I needed the artists to be gigantic, on individuals’s faces, so the viewers may really feel that they had been in entrance of them and we achieved that,” Yankee mentioned. “It was a live performance that turned a residence, like if Las Vegas had moved to Puerto Rico.”
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