1. Cosculluela (1980)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican rapper who has released numerous albums since 2009, including Blanco Perla, El Príncipe and El Niño.

2. Draco Rosa (1969)

Puerto Rican Musician

Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and performer. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2011. After recovering in 2012, the cancer returned in 2013, but he was again able to...

3. DJ Nelson (1972)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican born DJ who rose to fame for popularizing the reggaeton genre of music. He is also credited for having coined the term reggaeton in 1995.

4. Cheo Feliciano (1935)

Puerto Rican Musician

Singer and songwriter who became known for his work in the bolero and salsa musical genres. During the 1960s, he recorded Steppin' Out, Red Hot and Cha Cha, and numerous...

5. Roberto Roena (1938)

Puerto Rican Musician

Salsa dancer, percussionist, and band leader who established the group Roberto Roena y Su Apollo Sound.

6. Frankie Ruiz (1958)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican salsa singer who released the albums Solista Pero No Solo and Voy Pa' Encima. He was also known as El Papá de la Salsa.

7. José Feliciano (1945)

Puerto Rican Musician

Blind Puerto Rican singer-songwriter best known for his international Christmas hit "Feliz Navidad." He has also released covers of songs like "Light My Fire" by The Doors.

8. Melanie Maher (1987)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican singer who gained fame through her appearance as a contestant on the third season of the reality singing show Objetivo Fama. She later became a successful Broadway actress,...

9. Ismael Miranda (1950)

Puerto Rican Musician

Beloved salsa singer referred to as "The Pretty Boy of Salsa" in his homeland of Puerto Rico. He is known for classic salsa numbers like "Lupe, Lupe."

10. Yaire (1977)

Puerto Rican Musician

Purto Rican pop singer known for her albums Formas De Vida and Donde Me Lleve El Viento. She was especially popular for the hits "Contéstame" and "Te Amo Tanto."

11. Kany García (1982)

Puerto Rican Musician

Grammy-winning Puerto Rican sensation whose debut album "Cualquier Dia" spawned four Top 40 tracks. She is one of the most successful singers to appear on singing competition "Objetivo Fama" and...

12. Víctor Manuelle (1968)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican singer of salsa music lovingly referred to as "The Singer Of Youths". He is known for albums like 2004's "Travesia", which hit number one on the Latin Album...

13. Ednita Nazario (1955)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer who has achieved international success for over twenty years and sang "Cadenas de Fuego."

14. Tito Rojas (1955)

Puerto Rican Musician

Famed salsa singer and bandleader from Puerto Rico known as "El Gallo Salsero" (The Salsa Rooster). He had a prolific decades-long career as both a solo artist as well as a...

15. Manny Manuel (1972)

Puerto Rican Musician

Puerto Rican singer who was a member of the group Los Sabrosos del Merengue and then started a solo career in 1994. His debut solo album, Especialmente Para Ti!, came...

16. Israel Tanenbaum (1961)

Puerto Rican Musician

Instrumental in expanding salsa band Guayacán Orquesta's fanbase into the U.S. and European Latino markets.

17. Mario VI (1978)

Puerto Rican Musician

Reggaeton singer who became a star in the genre with such songs like "El Brindis," "Dos Amantes, Dos Amigos" and "El Mojón Flotando En El Toile." Additionally, he is the founder of the VI...

18. Ashley (singer) (1975)

Puerto Rican Musician

Ashley Colon better known as la chica bomba is a Puerto Rican merengue artist singer. Mostly influenced by popular Puerto Rican singer and actress Iris Chacón Ashley Quinteros began...

19. Robert Avellanet (1975)

Puerto Rican Musician

Roberto Alejandro Avellanet Negrón known professionally as Robert Avellanet or Roberto Avellanet is a Puerto Rican singer who was a member of Menudo.

20. Temperamento (1981)

Puerto Rican Musician

Christian Estremera Ramos known as Temperamento is a Puerto Rican born Rap artist living in Providence Rhode Island.

21. Lucecita Benítez (1942)

Puerto Rican Musician

Luz Esther Benítez better known to the music world as Lucecita is a Puerto Rican singer.

22. Gloria González (1944)

Puerto Rican Musician

Gloria González is a Puerto Rican composer with an extensive repertoire of pop and salsa songs.

23. Gilberto Pulpo Colón, Jr. (1953)

Puerto Rican Musician

24. Luciano Quiñones (1948)

Puerto Rican Musician

Luciano Quiñones Lugo is a pianist and the foremost composer of Modern Puerto Rican Danzas.

25. Eladio Torres (1950)

Puerto Rican Musician

Eladio Torres is a Puerto Rican poet musiciancomposer and singer whose danza Tu vives en mi pensamiento is one of the three most popular Puerto Rican Danzas of the 20th...

26. Manolo Badrena (1952)

Puerto Rican Musician

Manolo Badrena is a percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1977. He has made contributions to over 100 recordings that span jazz world music...

27. Rene Farrait (1967)

Puerto Rican Musician

Rene Farrait in San Juan Puerto Rico is a former member of the teen band Menudo. He was a member during the band's most successful period. Rene's trademark song was...

28. Tito Auger (1968)

Puerto Rican Musician

Alfonso Tito Auger Vega is a Puerto Rican musician best known for being the lead singer of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega. Auger is also the...

29. Rafael Cepeda (1910)

Puerto Rican Musician

Rafael Cepeda Atiles a. k. a. The Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena was the patriarch of the Cepeda family known internationally as the exponents of Afro-Puerto Rican folk music.

30. Lourdes Pérez (1961)

Puerto Rican Musician

Lourdes Pérez is a prolific Puerto Rican contemporary recording artist songwriter composer arranger poet contralto vocalist and guitarist. She is also one of few female décimistas.

31. Glenn Monroig (1957)

Puerto Rican Musician

Glenn Monroig is a composer guitarist and singer of various types of music styles such as salsa boleros and rumba. He is credited with having recorded the first rap song...

32. Jorge Arraiza (1970)

Puerto Rican Musician

Jorge Arraiza is a Puerto Rican musician most known for being the bassist of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega.

33. Miguelito (singer) (1999)

Puerto Rican Musician

Miguel Angel Valenzuela Morales known as Miguelito and MTO is a Puerto Rican reggaeton artist. He has released four albums and is the youngest Latin Grammy Award winner certified by...

34. Ray Reyes (1970)

Puerto Rican Musician

Ray Reyes is an American-born Puerto Rican singer who is a former member of Menudo. He was born in New York City and was raised in Levittown Puerto Rico. His...

35. Sylvia Rexach (1922)

Puerto Rican Musician

Sylvia Rexach was a comedy scriptwriter poet singer and composer of boleros.

36. Lunna (1960)

Puerto Rican Musician

Lunna is a singer of Pop and Jazz who was the director of the television show Objetivo Fama the Latin version of American Idol.

37. Gerardo Velez (1947)

Puerto Rican Musician

Gerardo Jerry Velez is a Puerto Rican musician. Best known for performing with American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival in August 1969 Velez is a veteran percussionist...

38. Jadyn Maria (1985)

Puerto Rican Musician

Joy Lynn Strand Pas better known by her stage name Jadyn Maria is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. At the age of seventeen Maria was signed to Sparrow Records for a...

39. Ignacio Peña (1973)

Puerto Rican Musician

Ignacio Peña Vidal better known as Ignacio Peña; is a Puerto Rican singer/songwriter who was born in Río Piedras Puerto Rico on April 21. 1973 and raised in Guaynabo and...

40. Pedro Arraiza (1973)

Puerto Rican Musician

Pedro Arraiza is a Puerto Rican musician most known for being the drummer of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega.

41. Visitante (1978)

Puerto Rican Musician

Eduardo José Cabra Martínez better known by his stage name Visitante Calle 13 or simply Visitante is a musician multi-instrumentalist and musical composer of the Puerto Rican band Calle 13...

42. DJ Playero (1964)

Puerto Rican Musician

Pedro Gerardo Torruelas better known as DJ Playero was a key figure in the dissemination of reggaeton during its formative period in the 1990s in San Juan Puerto Rico. Beginning...