The song achieved success on radio and was eventually well known across Latin America. That same year, he started his ongoing popular streak with his breakthrough hit "Si Tu Marido No Te Quiere", originally featuring D.OZi when released to streaming platforms and websites, though he was taken down when the song hit radio. The following year, he focused on gaining a following by performing more than 300 shows in Puerto Rico. In 2014, he signed a recording contract with Golden Family Records and began to publish his songs on YouTube. He worked with Musicologo & Menes before gaining popularity. Ozuna debuted as a singer in 2012 with the song "Imaginando". Career 2012–2016: Career beginnings and breakthrough
However, he viewed Washington Heights to be equally violent and impoverished as his hometown, and returned to Puerto Rico with his wife and two children after three years in New York.
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While there, the artist learned how to produce and promote his own music videos, and made his first video with a budget of under US$100. Hoping to escape the violence and poverty of his neighborhood, he moved to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in 2010. To further his career, Ozuna took a job at a local bar called El Corozal, where his earliest musical performances took place. His uncle often played music by Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and De La Ghetto, and the teenager would rap along with the songs on the microphone. That same year, his uncle, who served as a father-figure since his father's death, gifted him his first microphone. We had to sweat in order to get it." Drawing influence from the Latin music he grew up on, he decided to pursue a singing career at age twelve. She would say the same of a pencil, an eraser, simple things. He explained that her philosophy centered around the ideal "that nothing is given to us, that you have to work for what you get.a pair of sneakers-we bought those with sacrifice. His grandmother instilled a strong Christian faith in him. Ozuna was raised in his grandmother's three-bedroom apartment built above a bodega in San Juan. His father, who worked as a dancer for reggaeton performer Vico C for three years, was fatally shot when Ozuna was three years old, and his mother was not financially stable enough to raise him. As stated in the eponymous opening track from his album Odisea, he grew up poor and was mainly raised by his paternal grandmother. He additionally enjoyed reggaeton artists Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Wisin y Yandel, which he refers to as "the real, real reggaeton", as well as American hip-hop and R&B artists Jay-Z and Usher. He grew up listening to traditional Latin genres such as salsa and bachata, which have influenced his musical style. Ozuna was born in San Juan to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother.