Yotuel romero biography books

He is a Cuban singer, actor, and current lead singer and co-writer of the Latin Grammy Award-winning Platinum album-selling rap group Orishas. His parents could not agree on a name so they decided to combine all 3 pronouns. He has developed a performing arts career and is a Cuban expatriate. Yotuel began performing rap music early in life.

When he was 18 years old he got together with his friend Hiram Riveri aka Ruzzo and Joel Pando and all three started a rap group called Amenaza Menace. Having any success as a rap artist in Cuba proved difficult so he also started acting in theatre and television and doing some modeling work.

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In they won the first prize in the 3rd edition of the underground Cuban Rap Music Awards, later on, that year they would record a demo produced by X Alfonso. This first group had a very good acceptance and a lot of radio play in Cuba and some national television appearances in Cuba. From all this found fame they meet Petra Morales a representative of a French non-profit organization called ADHESIF, she liked their work so she arranged for them to travel to France from Cuba to do a cultural exchange program and to promote them outside Cuba.

There was already a strong rap music scene in Paris and they took advantage of this, they got together with Livan and the producer Niko Noki introduced them to another singer named Roldan at a club called Cupol and from that moment the group Orishas was born. Right away they started writing lyrics and musical themes for the demo that would later become their first album titled A Lo Cubano.

Since then Yotuel has not stopped working. He has also starred in ad campaigns for Ducados and Havana Club. Besides being a singer, actor, and fashion model, Yotuel has also done work as a composer and record producer. It was composed by all of them and Beatriz Luengo. The song and the artists, including Yotuel, were criticized in the Cuban mass media.