Daddy Yankee!

Sunday, we went to the Daddy Yankee concert at Wolf Trap. Before the show, fans took part in an impromptu dance-off to DY’s hit "Lo Que Paso, Paso" playing over the Wolf Trap speakers.

DY has been dominating the reggaeton charts for well over a decade, and this summer joined forces with Luis Fonsi and Justin Bieber for this year’s No. 1 megahit "Despacito," breaking Billboard and YouTube records (over 2.5 billion views) along the way and helping Daddy Yankee become the first Latino artist to reach No. 1 on Spotify (over 1 billion listens). Here are fans dancing along to a Despacito song pre-show.

While Daddy Yankee had moderate success with a string of mix tapes in his native Puerto Rico in the 1990s, he hit worldwide fame with the seminal hit "Gasolina" in 2004, which brought the thunderous percussion-filled, bass-heavy reggaeton sounds to the American mainstream. This eventually led U.S. record labels to partner with numerous reggaeton stars and pair them with their roster of hip-hop and R&B performers for a series of bilingual duets in the mid-aughts.

Here, Daddy Yankee performs.

The crowd at Wolf Trap was already revved up with a 30-minute video montage of DY’s 20-plus-year career, leading up to the stirring live performance of "Gasolina," filled with the pyrotechnics, smoke and towel waving shown in the music video of the same song that made Daddy Yankee a star.

Daddy Yankee also performed "Rompe," "Machicando" and the romantic ballad "Andas En Mi Cabeza."

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