The singer and songwriter from Puerto Rico, who has collaborated on tracks with J Balvin and Bad Bunny, also discusses his upcoming album, "Timelezz."With every step Jhay Cortez takes in his rising career, things just keep getting bigger. The Puerto Rican singer-songwriter’s success has reached critical mass thanks to his collaboration “‘s Global 200 chart. Domestically, it’s the second fully Spanish-language song to debut within the top 10 of the all-genre Hot 100 chart.
“For me, it’s a dream come true to have the number one song in the world,” the 27-year-old says over the phone. “[‘Dákiti’] is just one of those songs where you feel the melody. You feel the song even if you don’t understand the lyrics. That was my whole goal when I started making the song: I wanted a global song that could connect with everybody, no matter your race or the language.”
The futuristic club anthem is emblematic of reggaetón music’s resurgence in popularity around the world. The genre rooted in Puerto Rico sees Cortez and Bad Bunny proudly planting their island’s flag atop the charts with the song named after San Juan’s Dákiti beach. For Cortez to reach this peak in his career is especially rewarding as he’s spent the past decade shifting gears from songwriter to artist.
Cortez is a child of reggaetón, having grown up in San Juan when local pioneers like Daddy Yankee, Tego Caulderón, and Don Omar, whom he cites as an artist that put him on to music, led the genre’s initial breakthrough in the early 2000s. With the help of his dad, who was a musician, Cortez started producing music at 14 years old. “My vision was to always be an artist, but I had to look to [songwriting] as another way to get to that point,” he says. “I had to make a living.
Having established himself as a hit songwriter in Latin music, Cortez set his sights even higher. He was one of the writers on Cardi B’s 2018 global smash “” featuring Bad Bunny and Colombian rapper J Balvin. “That was my first crossover song,” he says. “It really gave me the hope that I needed to keep doing big, global records.” Reaching the cap on songwriting, Cortez decided to pivot to his own artistic endeavors. However, he knew there were challenges to overcome with that maneuver.
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