William Omar Landrón Rivera, known artistically as Don Omar, today announced the start in Puerto Rico of his "Forever King ... The Last Tour" tour, which will "mark his retirement from the stage."
SBS Entertainment, a company specializing in entertainment events in Puerto Rico and the United States, said today that the tour "marks the end of the more than 15-year musical career that has captivated every country in the world."
Don Omar, among others, an interpreter of "Danza Kuduro", will perform the series of concerts on December 15, 16 and 17 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot.
In addition, according to the statement, "this being such a special time, a significant moment in his career, and recognizing the difficult times that the island is going through, the greatest exponent of urban music has decided to give his audience the opportunity to be with him and enjoy his talent at prices never before seen.
So there will be tickets that will sell from 99 cents, while they last, in a special event on Saturday September 9 at the ticket window of the Coliseum of Puerto Rico.
"For our company Spanish Broadcasting System is a pleasure to have been able to finalize a negotiation where the artist Don Omar made very clear the consideration to his people given the economic situation that is going through Puerto Rico at the moment," explains the note.
At the same time, he emphasizes that there will be three consecutive functions "and Don Omar is ready to surrender to his audience and celebrate his farewell with his homeland."
"It is an honor to be part of a historic moment for the artist Don Omar and Puerto Rico and we thank him and the Puerto Ricans for allowing us to create and bring the best entertainment," said Lucas Piña, senior vice president of SBS Entertainment.
Don Omar was born on February 10, 1978 in Villa Palmeras (San Juan), an evangelical expat. He is the eldest of the three sons of William Landrón and Luz Antonia Rivera.
He grew up in the Villa Palmeras santurcina neighborhood, and at twelve years of age he had the desire to follow in the footsteps of rappers who dominated the Puerto Rican scene: Vico C, Brewley MC and several Anglo-Saxon interpreters, according to the biography of the interpreter of the National Foundation for Popular Culture.
Being a fifteen-year-old, he became an active member of the Evangelical Restoration Church in Christ, in Bayamón, and during the four years that he was part of the congregation of that temple, where he was frequently entrusted with the task of giving sermons, of a group that played gospel music.
"A disappointment of love, which he later evoked in the composition 'Even if you left', he turned away from that path of evangelization and sought the opportunity to enter definitively into the rapper scene, from which emerged today's prevailing wave of reggaeton," according to the National Foundation for Popular Culture.
His first significant experience was a participation in the collective work "Operation Sandunga" (1999) interpreting the theme "Let me hunt them".
From 2000, his name would appear in the productions of the main national disc-jockey, among them Francisco Tomás Muriel "Buda", Leny Tunes, Noriega and Eric Montero "DJ Eric".
Also, in the works of the most successful duet of that moment, Héctor & Tito.
The first of them, Hector Delgado "El Bambino", would become his artistic godfather.
In mid-2003, he would produce the album that not only marked his debut as a soloist, but catapulted him to stardom: "The Last Don."
