From tooling round with SoundCloud mixes to creating record-breaking albums that modified the panorama of Latin music, Dangerous Bunny has turn into an artist for the ages. The Puerto Rican entertainer’s untold reality is stuffed with extra than simply music-making – it is accented by his political activism, his gender-nonconforming trend sense, and even his penchant for comedy. However it doesn’t matter what, it’s the twin goal of music and residential that makes Dangerous Bunny the formidable entertainer he’s right this moment. Whether or not he’s releasing new chart-topping information, embarking on sold-out world excursions, or returning house to carry out unique live shows only for his fellow Puerto Ricans, it’s the pleasure of the job to have the ability to create music that can final a lifetime for Dangerous Bunny. “My solely objective right here is that the individuals will all the time keep in mind my music and that they take pleasure in my music 10 years, 20 years from now,” he shared with The Fader. “That folks have nice recollections of those songs … I am able to make songs that do not die.”

Earlier than he turned one of the vital in-demand music artists on this planet, Dangerous Bunny was born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in Puerto Rico’s Almirante Sur neighborhood. Rising up, Benito was immersed in music in all varieties. From singing in his church choir till age 13 to blasting salsa and Latin ballads along with his mother and father and youthful siblings, the entertainer was surrounded by the sounds of his homeland. These roots have stayed in his music all through the years, at the same time as he is developed his personal wild type. “I favored enjoying rather a lot with my creativeness,” he admitted of his youth to Fader.

Whilst he started creating his personal voice, he turned to his household to assist information him. As he started making mixtapes and experimenting along with his sound, he would create playlists along with his household in thoughts that stick with him to at the present time. “Each time I am going to the west of Puerto Rico, I get flashbacks from these moments and it feels good,” he revealed in a particular Pepsi business (through Individuals).

Ultimately, these mixes become authentic songs on SoundCloud, and the persona often known as Dangerous Bunny was born. As he progressed by means of his teenage years and even in faculty, he took to the platform to develop his personal sound, and ultimately, these tracks gained traction. Whereas in faculty on the College of Puerto Rico in Arecibo, his tunes caught the ear of the favored DJ Luian (producer and co-founder of Hear This Music), and along with his assist, Dangerous Bunny’s recognition soared. He turned so in style that he was named the host of Apple Music’s first Spanish-language present, “Lure Kingz,” in 2017.

As for a way he bought his well-known stage title, the inspiration got here from a childhood reminiscence. As a child, he remembers dressing up as a bunny and an image capturing his sullen perspective. As an grownup, he turned that second right into a memorable moniker as a method of setting himself aside. “It is a title I knew would market nicely,” he admitted to ET. “A bunny is one thing so widespread that I believed to myself, each time somebody sees one, they’re going to keep in mind my music.”

It appeared a pure development that the then-internet-famous Dangerous Bunny would start collaborating with a few of music’s largest stars to assist his personal star rise. From crooning alongside Becky G on “Mayores” to maintaining with Drake in “Mia,” the artist started steadily that includes on a number of chart-topping tracks. The track that arguably helped make him a family title was “I Like It” alongside Cardi B and J Balvin. The track, which went on to hit primary on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, catapulted the trio into mainstream international success.

When it got here to creating the now iconic track, Dangerous Bunny admitted he was introduced on as a shock for Cardi B. However it was his chemistry with J Balvin, who fashioned a friendship past their collaboration, that helped solidify the expertise as a memorable one. “We now have nice chemistry within the studio, every little thing was so pure,” he shared with Billboard. The superstars even went on to document a collaborative album collectively in 2019 and have been the one two male rappers who appeared within the 2020 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present alongside Latin musical heavyweights Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. The pair went on to allegedly have beef with one another, and Dangerous Bunny even went as far as to allegedly diss him on the observe “Thunder Y Lightning.”

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dangerous Bunny’s recognition exploded on a worldwide scale. After showing within the 2020 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, he launched the album “YHLQMDLG — Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana,” which interprets to “I do what I need.” The album, which boasted a whopping 20 tracks that featured Puerto Rican icons like Daddy Yankee and Jowell & Randy, broke a number of Billboard information. It topped the High Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums charts and peaked at quantity two on the Billboard 200 chart. All 20 of the album’s tracks charted on the Sizzling Latin Songs charts, and 11 of them positioned within the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart concurrently. The album went on to win Finest Latin Pop or City Album on the 2021 Grammy Awards. That very same yr, he was topped as Spotify’s most streamed artist, with 8.3 billion international streams, and three.3 billion of these streams got here from “YHLQMDLG” itself. “After I make music, my imaginative and prescient goes past the numbers,” the artist shared with Billboard. “That is why ‘YHLQMDLG’ is historic!”

He adopted up the record-breaking album with a good greater record-breaker: the 2021 album “El Último Tour del Mundo,” which turned the primary all-Spanish-language album to succeed in primary on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

From 2020 onward, Dangerous Bunny made a reputation for himself past music. In 2021, he was named considered one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Individuals. “He is an artist, interval,” J Balvin wrote of his collaborator within the publication. “A real artist. Now he is at his peak, taking Latin tradition to a different stage.” Bunny was additionally featured on the duvet of one other storied media outlet; he turned the primary man apart from authentic proprietor Hugh Hefner to seem solo on the duvet of Playboy Journal.

He additionally used his platform to amplify causes he supported. His track “Pero Ya No” was featured in advertisements for former U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential marketing campaign. All through the years, the musician has continued to make his views identified, significantly in the case of relations between the U.S. and his native Puerto Rico. He even publicly endorsed former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris throughout her 2024 presidential marketing campaign in response to comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump marketing campaign rally. “We’re the definition of coronary heart and resistance,” Dangerous Bunny shared in an Instagram video devoted to his house nation. “Right here we proceed, right here we’re, and for individuals who overlook who we’re … relaxation assured, we proudly remind you.”

Music is not the one medium that Dangerous Bunny has taken by the reins. He is dipped his toe into the performing waters in each streaming collection and main Hollywood blockbusters alike. His first main function was as Arturo “Kitty” Paez within the Netflix collection “Narcos: Mexico.” Although it was a special set of expertise that he needed to faucet into, the artist-turned-actor nonetheless felt like he was staying true to kind in a method. “The character is a cool, younger man, and I am a cool man, I believe so,” he admitted on “The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon.”

He even took on Brad Pitt within the motion flick “Bullet Practice,” the place he performed The Wolf, a harmful crime lord who comes face-to-face with Pitt’s character Ladybug in an intense (and in the end deadly) combat scene. Regardless of the seriousness, Dangerous Bunny confirmed that the expertise was a tremendous one, significantly when it got here to collaborating with Pitt. “You realize me. I am a fighter. I am a wrestler,” he gushed to Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 (through Billboard). “I used to be very excited … Brad Pitt is a[n] superb man. He was all the time so respectful and good with me.”

Past the massive display, Dangerous Bunny has taken his theatrical expertise all the best way to the WWE. The star appeared on the 2021 Royal Rumble and made his solution to WrestleMania 37, the place he teamed up with Damian Priest to face off towards foes like The Miz and John Morrison. Bunny, a lifelong WWE superfan, skilled with a number of the business’s massive names like Adam Pearce and Drew Gulak, who shared that it was jarring even for somebody who knew the ropes — or, a minimum of, thought they knew. “He is aggressive with himself,” Pearce instructed Billboard. “However he by no means quits. He all the time says, ‘Let’s do it once more.’ He is all in. You may’t educate that.”

Bunny made one more look on the 2022 Royal Rumble and once more in 2023 at WWE Backlash. However despite the fact that he thought he was ready for the physicality of the function, particularly after coaching with a number of the present greats, he admitted that there was nonetheless some ache related to the job — significantly when Priest took to hitting him with a kendo stick. “I all the time believed since I used to be a child that ‘oh, the kendo stick, it does not harm,'” he shared on an episode of “Sizzling Ones.” “It is like this little picket stick. However, f***. That harm. Like, rather a lot.”

Because the world was rising on the opposite aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dangerous Bunny launched the album “Un Verano Sin Ti” on Could 6, 2022. It debuted at primary on the Billboard 200 album chart and broke information once more when it turned the second all-Spanish album to land the highest spot. The most effective half? He usurped his personal document, as his 2020 album “El Último Tour del Mundo” was the primary to carry that title. “Un Verano Sin Ti” remained No. 1 for 13 non-consecutive weeks and in the end tied a document held by Drake for many weeks at No. 1 for a single album on the Billboard 200 inside the final 10 years on the time.

The album additionally launched the singer’s “World’s Hottest Tour” in August of that yr. The trek turned the highest-grossing tour by a Latin American artist of all time, raking in a large $435 million on the time. He closed out the yr by being named Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2022 and Billboard’s Artist of the 12 months. However regardless of the massive numbers and even greater accolades, Bunny holds sturdy that he does what he does for the love of the music. “My objective can be to do issues that I take pleasure in, by no means to be a billionaire or no matter,” he instructed Harper’s Bazaar. “If I do not really feel obsessed with one thing, then I am not going to do it, regardless of how a lot it’s.”

It isn’t simply music and flicks that Dangerous Bunny has been acknowledged for. He has proven himself to be a useful ally to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and was even honored with the distinguished Vanguard award on the thirty fourth GLAAD Media Awards in 2023. The award is offered to people who’re loud and proud of their help for LGBTQ+ individuals and points. Earlier winners of the award embrace fellow Latin American icons like Ricky Martin, Antonio Banderas, and Jennifer Lopez. “I imagine that when you might have coronary heart and also you give love, that is what you obtain again,” he stated in his acceptance speech (through GLAAD.org). “That is what I’ve needed to do all this time with my music.”

Bunny does not subscribe to a selected label, which is clear by means of a few of his dwell performances the place he has kissed each women and men. Whereas he has primarily (and famously) dated ladies, he has publicly acknowledged that he doesn’t know the place his preferences will lie in 20 years. He prefers to dwell within the second. “It doesn’t outline me,” he stated of his sexuality to the Los Angeles Instances.

Whereas we all know that Dangerous Bunny and longtime girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri’s relationship standing has been on and off, the entertainer made headlines when he entered a relationship with mannequin Kendall Jenner. What the pair’s relationship was actually like was kind of non-public, however that did not cease the duo from being photographed exhibiting some main PDA. The bulk of what’s identified concerning the non-public pair’s relationship, which was reportedly ambivalent for round a yr, is thru excessive trend campaigns for manufacturers like Gucci and a plethora of speculative social media posts, one thing that Bunny himself is skeptical about. “It is a b****, social media,” he shared with Self-importance Truthful. “You set it on the market and it is perpetually.”

Regardless of the pink flags that signaled Bunny and Jenner have been all the time doomed, the back-and-forth beaus reportedly haven’t any sick will in direction of the opposite. They’ve even been noticed spending time collectively and supporting each other at their respective live shows (him) and trend exhibits (her). And for his half, the entertainer is not eager on making any form of official announcement on his relationships. “I actually don’t desire [people] to know,” he stated of his public relationship standing when chatting with Self-importance Truthful. “I am not likely fascinated with clarifying something as a result of I’ve no dedication to make clear something to anybody.”

Whether or not he is making new record-breaking hits or cracking up audiences on “Saturday Evening Reside,” Dangerous Bunny is all about supporting his homeland. He has constantly spoken up for Puerto Rico within the face of political disparagement and has taken time to focus extra on the individuals and place he calls house. His 2025 album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” exhibits him returning to his roots with quite a lot of musical types that every one focus on his nation. “[This album] recommits me to Puerto Rico,” he revealed to The New York Instances.

It doesn’t matter what he does or what work he places out, it’s all the time along with his nation in thoughts. Whether or not he is performing in a particular Las Vegas-style residency, the place he was scheduled to play 21 exhibits with the primary 9 exhibits solely obtainable to Puerto Rican residents, or touring the world exploring totally different international locations and cultures, it all the time comes again to the island for the performer. “It does not matter the place on this planet you might be, Puerto Ricans who’ve been away from Puerto Rico for years … sleep the place they’re however dwell in Puerto Rico,” he shared with The Lower.