El General (born Edgardo A. Franco) is a Panamanian Dancehall artist considered by some to be one of the Fathers of Reggaeton. During the early 1990s, he initiated the spanish spoken dancehall that would later become reggaeton. Early examples of this were the international and somewhat mainstream songs, “Te Ves Buena” and “Tu Pum Pum.” Both songs, performed in Spanish rap, were very successful in North America. After getting his foot in the door of the commercial market, many other Spanish rappers became famous in the mainstream as well, such as Vico C and DJ Negro.^[1] He has a unique, easy to listen to style of dance music and has produced many well known songs all over Latin America. His musical works have become popular in Latin America over the last few years. This style is called reggaeton or Spanish Reggae/Dancehall, because he makes reggae music with Spanish lyrics.

El General began singing and composing songs at the age of 12 in Rio Abajo, his home. After getting a scholarship, the young artist moved to the U.S. to study business administration, soon becoming a professional accountant. He started his career when he was 19 years old, and during 17 years, his albums achieved gold status 32 times and platinum 17 times, and several other awards. El General's type of music from Panama was something much different from the reggae of Jamaica. The popular music in Panama was called petroleo.^[2]

Songs like "Muevelo" (1991), "Tu Pum Pum" (1988), "Rica y Apretadita", and "Te Ves Buena" are among his greatest hits. In 1992, El General received the an MTV award for best Latin video with the great success of "Muevelo".^[3]

His breakout performance came in 1995, when he was featured on the song Robi-Rob's Boriqua Anthem Part 2 from C+C Music Factory's self titled album.

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when reggaeton got hot I would always say el general started this in the 90's. people would say who i would say damn youngin's. I am not even spanish, but the nyc was feelin the shit out of his music back in the day.

I used to listen to him a bit... Every once in a while I still here young reggaetoneros from PR biting his lyrics and things he did in songs 20 years ago...

misschestylarue said:

when reggaeton got hot I would always say el general started this in the 90's. people would say who i would say damn youngin's. I am not even spanish, but the nyc was feelin the shit out of his music back in the day.

And you KNOW this!

lezama said:

I used to listen to him a bit... Every once in a while I still here young reggaetoneros from PR biting his lyrics and things he did in songs 20 years ago...

I thought I was the only one. And I'm not a huge fan of reggaeton but I've noticed some artists totally ripping his lyrics and style.

I absolutely DETEST this musical genre

SCNDLS said:

God, I HATE this new formatting. How do I insert a youtube clip now???

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I'm just about too damn lazy to explain what I did but step by step but I will cuz you're bomb:

• Go to beginning of link, place cursor to the right of "H" in http, press backspace and then re-type the "H" in the address.
• Type [youtube] in front of the url.
• Go to the end of the url and press backspace. In this instance, it removed the underline link. If pressing the backspace eliminates the last letter, just re-type it just like you retype "H" in the beginning.
• Type [/youtube] at the end of the url.

OK, there probably is a simpler way to make the url not a link but I have no idea what it is Total pain in the ass but it works!

"muevelo...... muevelo "

i have a couple of his albums. my sister was/is a bit more into him than i am.

but love dancing to his stuff. there was a club that played his stuff pretty often; needless to say the floor was packed.

and he's your cousin? very coool for you!

SCNDLS said:

His breakout performance came in 1995, when he was featured on the song Robi-Rob's Boriqua Anthem Part 2 from C+C Music Factory's self titled album.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SCNDLS said:

God, I HATE this new formatting. How do I insert a youtube clip now???

[Edited 7/13/10 14:26pm]

I'm just about too damn lazy to explain what I did but step by step but I will cuz you're bomb:

• Go to beginning of link, place cursor to the right of "H" in http, press backspace and then re-type the "H" in the address.
• Type [youtube] in front of the url.
• Go to the end of the url and press backspace. In this instance, it removed the underline link. If pressing the backspace eliminates the last letter, just re-type it just like you retype "H" in the beginning.
• Type [/youtube] at the end of the url.

OK, there probably is a simpler way to make the url not a link but I have no idea what it is Total pain in the ass but it works!

Thank YOU!

I don't like these changes at ALL! Took some simple shit and made it complicated for no damn reason.