Daddy Yankee Says He’s ‘Still Under Construction’ During Superstar Q&A at 2025 Latin Music Week

In a historical panel, Daddy Yankee returned to the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week for a candid speech with Billboard’s Leila Cobo for the “Superstar Q&A” sheet connected Wednesday (Oct. 22).

During the one-hour-long conversation, the Puerto Rican creator opened up astir his idiosyncratic and nonrecreational rebirth; his latest album, Lamento en Baile; arsenic good arsenic God’s intent with him.

“I consciousness reborn, reenergized, and genuinely joyful with everything I’m experiencing,” helium told Cobo. “The personal, spiritual, and faith-based alteration surely feels bully successful my heart. Each idiosyncratic has a antithetic intent and design. Everyone has a intent to fulfill successful their lives, and excavation was this path: to forefront fashionable culture, announcing the Kingdom — that’s a challenge. My begetter is truthful strategical that he’s calling galore people.”

The Puerto Rican creator besides reacted to his uplifting opus “Sonríele” reaching No. 1 connected the Billboard Latin Airplay illustration this week.

“I ne'er imagined it would person the immense interaction it has had due to the fact that euphony is antithetic now,” helium expressed. “Seeing it scope people’s hearts fills maine with joyousness due to the fact that that intent is being seen. This opus is medicine… it’s celebrating life. That’s the existent No. 1.”

And though helium “feels reborn with caller energies and precise happy” with his idiosyncratic and spiritual change, helium admits that it’s inactive a learning process for him.

“I’m inactive nether construction,” helium said. “I’m acold from perfect. I’m vulnerable, I person weaknesses, I’m going to marque mistakes, but I cognize my religion is successful the Lord, and that he’s successful power of that.”

Spanning 36 years, Latin Music Week is the azygous largest gathering of Latin artists and manufacture executives successful the world. This year’s lawsuit — which besides features Carín León, Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Netón Vega, Ozuna, Pablo Alborán, and Xavi, among others — hosts panels, marquee conversations, roundtables, networking and activations, successful summation to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo showcases. 

Latin Music Week besides coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, acceptable to aerial Thursday, Oct. 23, connected Telemundo and Peacock, wherever Bad Bunny volition beryllium honored arsenic Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century.

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