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October 24, 2009

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Wisin & Yandel (also known as El Duo de la Historia or El Duo Dinamico!) are a Latin Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican reggaeton duo. They started their career together in 1995 and have been together since winning several awards during that time.

Wisin & Yandel were both born in Cayey, Puerto Rico where they met. Before beginning their musical career, Yandel worked as a barber while Wisin earned a degree in theater and acting. However, both shared the same musical interests

In 1998, they worked with DJ Dicky in his production No Fear 3. The next year, they were signed to the Fresh Production label, appearing in La Misión, Vol. 1 (The Mission, Vol. 1). The albums reached gold status, and the label produced the duo's first album in 2000 titled Los Reyes del Nuevo Milenio (The Kings of the New Millennium).

From then on, they've released four albums together, while making appearances in the Mision compilations. All of the albums have reached gold status. They also won a Tu Musica Award for "Best Rap & Reggaeton Duo".

That same year, the duo established their own record label, WY Records. In 2006, they released a compilation album titled Wisin y Yandel Presentan: Los Vaqueros featuring nearly all artists from the WY Records label including Fily Elguate, Jayko, Gadiel (Yandel's brother), El Tio, and Franco El Gorila. The album proved to be a huge success, so much that in 2007 a complete remix album entitled Los Vaqueros: Wild Wild Mixes was released featuring several remixes to songs on Los Vaqueros with many guest stars not formerlly associated with Wisin y Yandel. These artists include Don Omar on 'La Pared' and 'Nadie Como Tu', Elephant Man on 'Pegao (Remix)', Yomo on 'Dame Un Kiss (Remix)', Ken-Y on 'Quizas (Remix)' which is now one of their top hits in Spain and Luis Fonsi on 'Yo Te Quiero (Remix)'. El Tio, who was featured on the first Los Vaqueros album, does not appear on this the mix album as he was no longer a member of WY Records at this time.