Don Chezina

Don Chezina
Birth name	Ricardo Garcia Ortiz
Born	January 1976 (age 40) Georgia, U.S.
Genres	Reggaeton
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Don Che Record's / Diririri Business
Website	http://www.donchezina.com/

Don Chezina (born Ricardo Garcia Ortiz in 1976) is a singer, producer, and talent scout of reggaeton music.^[1] He is known for his high, nasal voice and fast rapping style (known as "Puerto Rico's Machine Gun Rapper"),^[2] along with his most famous song "Tra Tra Tra", which in 1998 became one of the first reggaeton songs to become popular in the US.^[3] Chezina was considered one of the biggest names in the early days of the reggaeton genre.^[4]

Discography

• Bien Guillao de Gangster (1997)
• Mi Trayectoria (1998)
• Live From Miami (2003)
• Éxitos (2004)
• My Life (2007)
• Original Don (2010)
• Muchas ideas

References

1. "POP AND JAZZ GUIDE". The New York Times. 2003-08-08. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
2. Capobianco, Ken (2005) "Thy're the Pulse of Reggaeton", Boston Globe, September 23, 2005, p. D1
3. "Genre of the YearL The Decades-in-the-Making Overnight Sensation Called Reggaeton", SPIN, January 2006, p. 83, retrieved 2010-09-22
4. Walker, Klive (2006) Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground, Insomniac Press, ISBN 978-1-894663-96-0, p. 256