Eddie Dee

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Eddie Dee

Background information
Born	April 26, 1977 (1977-04-26) (age 31)
Origin	Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Genre(s)	Reggaeton/Hip Hop
Years active	1993-present
Website	Official MySpace

Eddie Ávila^{[citation needed]} (born on April 26, 1977, in Río Piedras Puerto Rico), artistically known as Eddie Dee is a Puerto Rican reggaeton recording artist and producer.

1 Musical career
2 Rise to popularity
3 Discography
4 Singles
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Musical career

Eddie Dee began singing and writing his own songs as early as age ten. Eddie Dee began making television appearances dancing and performing starting in 1990, and released his debut record, Eddie Dee & the Ghetto Crew, by 1993. Various video and recording collaborations established Eddie as a rising talent in the budding Latin hip-hop/reggaeton genre. His hit song "Señor Oficial," from DJ Adam's Mad Jam 2, won him the Puerto Rican Rap and Reggae Award for Best Lyrics of the year in 1997. The record was followed by El Terrorista de la Lírica (2000) and Biografía (2001), both of which were immense underground successes, solidifying Eddie as a reggaeton icon whose work was admired even by the genre's mainstream artists who outsold him.

[edit] Rise to popularity

Eddie Dee's most notable achievement came in early 2004 with the release of his compilation album "Los 12 Discípulos" (translated literally as "The 12 Disciples"), which was ushered in by the hit song "Quitate Tu." The album gathered many well known reggaeton artists such as Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Vico C, Tego Calderón, Julio Voltio and more.

In the following year, Eddie wrote perhaps the biggest reggaeton hit to date, the song that introduced U.S. audiences to the genre, Daddy Yankee's 2004 smash hit "Gasolina".

In late 2005, Eddie Dee released a Special Edition CD/DVD of Los 12 Discípulos which included 4 new tracks, 5 music videos and other special features, as well as a preview for Eddie Dee's upcoming album, "El Diario de Eddie Avila", dated to be released in 2007. Eddie Dee collaborated with the 11 other reggaeton members on the track "Quítate Tu Pa' Ponerme Yo" as well as the "Salsa Remix" which was a bonus track on the Special Edition. He also featured La Secta AllStar on a new track entitled "La Locura Automática Remix" and worked with Daddy Yankee on "Taladro" for the same CD.

Eddie Dee also wrote the hit songs from Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino en Directo album: "Rompe" and "Machucando".

Eddie Dee's highly anticipated sixth solo album, entitled "El Diario De Eddie Avila" was expected out in November 2007 but has been delayed. Although a release date hasn't been given out to the album, forums in the web dedicated to Eddie Dee fans think the album has been delayed to 2008. The reason behind this, according to the forums, is because Eddie Dee is preventing the songs from being leaked to the web.

Prior and even during Eddie Dee's rise to fame, he expresses his feelings socio-policital issues in Puerto Rico to the public via his music. He specifically addresses public figures who denounces Reggaeton as deviant music even though their moral practices as leaders ought to be severely questioned. One example of this is explicitly stated in his song “Censurarme por ser rapero".(To censor me for being a rapper).^[1]