Chelo
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Jose Oscar Mejias Hernandez, better known as Chelo, is a Puerto Rican
hip-hop and pop
singer based in Miami Beach, Florida
recently signed with Sony BMG as a solo artist. His debut album is called 360°, and fuses pop
, urban and Latin music. The album is recorded in Spanglish
.
Chelo was asked by reggaeton
star Daddy Yankee
to assist him as a choreographer while still in high school
, which led to his joining the groups Jyve V
and Mexican ATM, which both had songs in the Billboard Latin Top 40.
's homecoming in Puerto Rico. Their song "Cha Cha" is a track in the music game Samba De Amigo
.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
hip-hop and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer based in Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
recently signed with Sony BMG as a solo artist. His debut album is called 360°, and fuses pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, urban and Latin music. The album is recorded in Spanglish
Spanglish
.Spanglish refers to the blend of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The Hispanic population of the United States and the British population in Argentina use varieties of...
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Chelo was asked by reggaeton
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...
star Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...
to assist him as a choreographer while still in high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
, which led to his joining the groups Jyve V
Jyve V
Jyve V is a Puerto Rican Latin pop band which got its first public exposure when they won dance contest "La Batalla de los Sexos" in 1997. Next year they won another dance contest held in Miami Beach. Jyve V did originally start as three member group consisting of Alex and brothers Jasond and...
and Mexican ATM, which both had songs in the Billboard Latin Top 40.
- Cha ChaCha Cha (song)"Cha Cha" is the debut single from Puerto Rican reggaeton singer, Chelo from his album 360°. Chelo sang the song in Miss Universe 2006. It peaked at #16 in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart.-Promo single - tracklist:...
(2006) - Yummy (2006)
- Un CorazónUn Corazón"Un Corazón" is the third single released by Puerto Rican singer, Chelo, from his debut album 360. It was a moderate success in Europe, however not in the US, where his previous single, "Yummy" performed better.-Charts:...
(2007)
Discography
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360°
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Other
Chelo sang at Miss Universe 2006, Zuleyka RiveraZuleyka Rivera
Zuleyka Jerrís Rivera Mendoza is a Puerto Rican beauty queen who held the titles Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006 and Miss Universe 2006. She made her debut as a telenovela actress in Telemundo's soap opera Dame Chocolate.-Early life:...
's homecoming in Puerto Rico. Their song "Cha Cha" is a track in the music game Samba De Amigo
Samba de Amigo
Samba de Amigo is a rhythm game originally developed by Sonic Team and released in 1999 by Sega in arcades, 2000 for the Dreamcast video game console, and developed by Gearbox Software and Escalation Studios in 2008 for the Wii. The player uses controllers shaped like maracas with the goal of...
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