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The aliases of Greek-Belgian brothers Dimitri and Michael Thivaios, the EDM DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, started their musical careers at a young age. From the age of 14, the pair began to DJ around their local nightclubs and became presenters on Belgium radio station BeatFM a few years later. They left Belgium in 1999 to play a European tour and settled in Mallorca to establish their names on the European dance circuit before moving to Halkidiki, Greece and then Ibiza in 2003. It was there that they made their names after securing residencies at respected nightclubs Privilege and Space. Next, after being made resident DJs of the nightclubs The End and Amnesia in Zante, Greece in 2006, they produced their first single, "La Cocaina (Eivissa 2007)," which was released on white label the following year. A slew of miscellaneous releases followed, but it was when their 2008 remix of Dave Lambert & Housetrap's "Work That Body" was noticed by Axwell -- who then enlisted them to remix Abel Ramos' "Rotterdam City of Love" for his label Axtone -- that DJ stardom beckoned. They hosted the Tomorrowland EDM festival in 2010, and the following year collaborated with Afrojack and Nervo on the smash single "The Way We See the World." The duo launched their Smash the House imprint in 2011. Several singles released on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label followed, and the duo scored seven number one hits on digital music retailer Beatport in 2013 alone. The brothers racked up numerous pop hits in Belgium and other European countries, including "Chattahoochee" and "Find Tomorrow (Ocarina)," which both hit number two in Belgium. 2014 found the duo cracking the U.K. charts for the first time when "Tremor" (their collaboration with Martin Garrix) hit number 30. Hits and festival headlines continued, and the duo was ranked number two on DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs poll in 2015. While Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike worked on their debut full-length in 2015, singles "The Hum" (with Ummet Ozcan) and "Higher Place" (featuring Ne-Yo) hit number one in Belgium as well as the top of the Billboard dance chart. In 2016, they collaborated with Dutch production duo W&W on the single "Arcade," which reached number one on electronic music site Beatport's Top 100 EDM songs chart, as well as hitting the Belgium and French charts. Singles such as "Melody," featuring Steve Aoki and Ummet Ozcan, and "Stay Awhile" kept the brothers in the public eye, with the pair also going one better than in the previous year's DJ Mag Top 100 DJ's second place by claiming the number one spot, the first for a duo. October saw the release of "Hey Baby," a collaboration with American producer Diplo, who had previously joined the pair at their House of Madness party in Ibiza. ~ Aneet Nijjar

French electronic music producer David Guetta rose to prominence atop the sparkling wave of DJs who combined Daft Punk's sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash punch at the start of the 21st century. Achieving international crossover success during the late-2000s EDM boom with the chart-toppers One Love and Nothing But the Beat, his house anthems became fixtures on the dance charts into the 2010s, often featuring famous names from the worlds of pop and rap, including frequent collaborators Nicki Minaj, Sam Martin, Sia, Morten, Chris Willis, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, and Afrojack. Along with the latter two artists, Guetta also won a pair of Grammy Awards in 2011. In 2020, he released the EP New Rave and teamed up with Sia for the ebullient international synthwave/pop hit "Let's Love." In 2022, he hit the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot 100 with "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring Bebe Rexha and again paired with the singer in 2023 for the Grammy-nominated "One in a Million."

A native of Paris, the artist born Pierre David Guetta had been DJ'ing in France playing popular tunes, but his brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio. He taped the track, brought a copy to a gig, and promptly cleared the floor with it during one of his own sets. Things loosened up a year later when acid house came to France and Guetta successfully promoted his own club nights. It was during one of those nights in 1992 that he met Robert Owens, a Chicago-based house legend who was touring Europe at the time. Guetta played Owens some of his own tracks, and Owens picked one he liked enough to sing over. The result was "Up and Away," a minor hit that lurked in garage DJ crates for the next four years.

Guetta's carefree attitude -- that he only produces good music while he's having casual fun -- kept the DJ from releasing anything until 2001's "Just a Little More Love." The track featured American gospel singer Chris Willis, who'd met Guetta while on vacation in France. Another slow-burner, "Just a Little More Love," kept popping up in sets for the next two years, first in an electro version and later in a pumped-up Wally Lopez remix. During this time, Guetta snuck out a bootleg remix of David Bowie's "Heroes," retitled "Just for One Day." Bowie gave the go-ahead to release the track officially, and Guetta soon had a massive hit on his hands. Guetta featured the liberated boot on his first mix CD, Fuck Me I'm Famous, named after Guetta's successful Ibiza-based party.

The fun-loving slacker DJ finally got around to releasing a collection of his own productions in 2004, Just a Little More Love on Astralwerks. Guetta Blaster arrived that same year, followed by Poplife in 2007. Chris Willis sang lead vocals on the latter album, which spun off multiple dance singles in multiple countries. Fuck Me I'm Famous: International, Vol. 2 was then released in July 2008, giving listeners a taste of the stylish sounds that orchestrated Guetta's summer club events in Ibiza. A year later, he released One Love, a platinum-selling album featuring the singles "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland, "Sexy Bitch" with Akon, and "Gettin' Over" with Chris Willis.

In 2010, Guetta received five nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, two of them related to the One Love album and the other three for his work on the Black Eyed Peas' massive worldwide hit "I Gotta Feeling." That same year, One Love was reissued as One More Love, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and new tracks. A superstar guest list featuring Akon, Lil Wayne, Flo Rida, Usher, Chris Brown, and others would figure into his 2011 release Nothing But the Beat, but this time the DJ's songwriting was inspired by dramatic rock bands like Coldplay.

In 2014, Guetta released three singles on his own Jack Back label, all of which were rounded up on that year's Lovers on the Sun EP. Later that year, Guetta released his sixth studio album, Listen. Perhaps as a reaction to inadvertently finding himself a sort of unofficial godfather to the burgeoning EDM movement, the record saw him branching out of his electro-house comfort zone, experimenting with elements of hip-hop, alternative rock, R&B, and acoustic instrumentation, and featuring guest artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Emeli Sandé, Sia, the Script, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2015, the LP was reissued as Listen Again with new songs and remixes added to the track list, including "Bang My Head" featuring Fetty Wap and Sia.

Over the next few years, Guetta issued a continuous stream of singles. In 2016, notable releases included the official UEFA Euro anthem "This One's for You" featuring Zara Larsson, which topped the charts in France, Germany, and Switzerland; "Shed a Light" with Robin Schulz and Cheat Codes; and "No Worries" with Disciples. The following year, Guetta issued a handful of additional collaborations with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne ("Light My Body Up"), Afrojack ("Another Life"), Justin Bieber (the platinum "2U"), Kiiara ("Complicated"), and Charli XCX and French Montana ("Dirty Sexy Money"). He kicked off 2018 with a pair of Sia collaborations (a remix of "Helium" and "Flames"), while also scoring another Top Ten hit for "Mad Love" with Sean Paul and Becky G. His seventh set, the aptly titled 7, arrived in September. In addition to including a some of his previously released singles -- "2U" and "Flames" among them -- Guetta also recruited Anne-Marie, Bebe Rexha, J Balvin, Jason Derulo, Martin Garrix, Jess Glynne, Steve Aoki, Lil Uzi Vert, G-Eazy, and many more for the effort. A bonus second disc of material was also bundled with 7, collecting a dozen tracks recorded as his alter ego Jack Back.

Early 2019 saw Guetta team up with Spanish DJ Tom Staar for the single "This Ain't Techno." The EP New Rave arrived in July 2020 and included the track "Kill Me Slow" featuring Morten. Later that year, he worked with Sia on the Top Ten dance single "Let's Love." More well-received singles followed, including 2021's "Heartbreak Anthem" with Galantis and Little Mix, 2021's "Remember" with Becky Hill, and 2022's "Crazy What Love Can Do," again with Hill and Ella Henderson. Also in 2022, Guetta released "You Can't Change Me" with Morten and Raye and topped the Hot Digital Songs chart alongside Bebe Rexha with "I'm Good (Blue)." He appeared on multiple charts in 2023 with "Baby Don't Hurt Me," a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie and American rapper Coi that sampled Haddaway's 1993 hit "What Is Love." He also reunited with Rexha for "One in a Million," which cracked the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. By the end of the year, both "Baby Don't Hurt Me" and "One in a Million" had picked up Grammy nominations for Best Pop Dance Recording. In 2024, he scored a Top 40 after hit joining forces with OneRepublic on "I Don't Wanna Wait." More non-album tracks followed, including "Feeling Good" with Hypaton and "Man in Finance" with Girl on Couch and Billen Ted. ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Bringing reggaeton from the underground to the mainstream, Daddy Yankee has been one of the most influential voices of the genre since the early 2000s. He did more than anyone to establish reggaeton as a marketable music style with his 2004 mainstream breakthrough Barrio Fino -- and in particular the international hit single "Gasolina" -- transcending cultural boundaries to become an international superstar. Daddy Yankee broke records during his initial run, becoming the top-selling Latin artist of the 2000s while remaining independent of major-label control. His empire expanded past music as time went on, growing to include a syndicated show for ABC Radio Networks (Daddy Yankee on Fuego) and a feature film for Paramount Pictures (Talento de Barrio). He stayed active between more fully realized studio albums like 2012's Prestige with assorted singles, and other projects including the King Daddy mixtape in collaboration with production/urbano duo Los De La Nazza (Eliezer "Musicólogo" García and Eduardo "Menes" López). He began recording its sequel in 2014. Tentatively titled King Daddy II: Elemento DY, he changed it to El Disco Duro. Originally slated for a 2016 release, it was delayed several times. In 2017, he was featured on Luis Fonsi's global smash "Despacito"; it topped the charts in 47 countries. Yankee released a handful of charting singles in 2021 including "Problema" and "El Gran Robo, Pt. 2." He closed a ten-year gap between albums with 2022's chart-topping LegenDaddy and eschewed his own retirement claims with singles like 2023's "Bonita."

Born Ramón Ayala (aka Raymond) on February 3, 1977, in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Daddy Yankee grew up in a musical family. His father was a bongosero (a salsa percussionist); his mother's family included numerous musicians, and he himself sang from an early age and had a knack for improvisation. As Yankee grew older, he took an interest in Spanish-language hip-hop, especially the socially aware raps of Vico C, and he became increasingly drawn into the street life of his neighborhood, the Villa Kennedy housing project in San Juan. The "Yankee" moniker arose from the Puerto Rican slang for "someone tall, who is big in what he does" (according to a 2005 interview with Billboard).

Daddy Yankee got into reggaeton just as it was taking shape in the early '90s, when San Juan DJs would spin hip-hop alongside dancehall reggae while vocalists freestyled over the beats. This convergence of hip-hop, dancehall, and freestyling proved popular in San Juan, most notably at The Noise, a long-running club night that spawned a collective of DJs and rappers. Besides The Noise, the other key proprietor of proto-reggaeton was Playero, a mixtape DJ/producer with whom Yankee got his start when he debuted as a featured guest on Playero 37 (1992). A few years later, at age 18, he made his full-length album debut, No Mercy (1995), again working with Playero. Little came of No Mercy, however, and he continued to work the reggaeton underground for the remainder of the '90s. Toward the end of the decade, he began performing alongside Nicky Jam as a duo and had one of his songs, "Posición," a collaboration with Alberto Stylee, featured on the 1998 One Tough Cop soundtrack.

Beginning in 2000, Daddy Yankee furthered his career significantly with independently released albums. El Cartel (2000) and El Cartel, Vol. 2 (2001) came first, each laden with featured guests in mixtape fashion; however, El Cangri.com (2002) was the one that really gave his career the boost it needed to break him outside Puerto Rico. Driven by "Latigazo," a single that found airplay in Miami and New York, El Cangri.com climbed all the way to number 43 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart despite no major-label backing whatsoever (it was instead released by VI Music, a Puerto Rican indie). In the wake of this success, Daddy Yankee assembled Los Homerun-es (2003), a Top Ten album comprised of odds and ends, including a newly recorded hit single, "Segurosqui," as well as some old Playero tracks from a decade prior.

Reggaeton was on the cusp of breaking big time at this point; touchstone albums such as Don Omar's The Last Don (2003), Tego Calderón's El Abayarde (2003), and Luny Tunes' Mas Flow (2003) were making significant inroads in Miami and New York, in addition to Puerto Rico, and a number of lesser albums were also being released. The stage was well set for Daddy Yankee's mainstream breakthrough, Barrio Fino (2004), which was released in July 2004 (by VI Music) and debuted at number one on the Top Latin Albums chart. The first reggaeton album to reach the number one spot, Barrio Fino would dominate the top of the Latin albums chart for roughly a year, and was lodged there well into 2005. It sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone during its chart reign.

The long shelf-life of Barrio Fino was partly on account of "Gasolina," a party-oriented single whose appeal was so phenomenal that the song itself became synonymous with reggaeton in the minds of many (and perhaps remains so), especially English speakers who were unacquainted with the music style. The appeal of "Gasolina" was such that it's been compared to "Macarena," another Latin party song that broke through cultural boundaries to become an international dance club staple. It took "Gasolina" a while to become a craze -- several months after the release of Barrio Fino, in fact -- yet by November 2004 it had broken into the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually made it all the way to number 32 a couple months later (a genuine Top 40 hit, albeit a novel one). On the Latin charts, though, "Gasolina" didn't even break the Top Ten, only reaching number 17. Rather, "Lo Que Pasó, Pasó" was the album's big hit on the Latin scene, charting at number two. Barrio Fino spawned a few other singles as well: "Sabor a Melao" (featuring salsa superstar Andy Montañez), "No Me Dejes Solo" (featuring Wisin & Yandel), and "Like You" (an English-language song). The success of the album was such that it catapulted Luny Tunes -- an industrious duo who'd produced half the LP, and all the key hits -- to stardom of their own, as they became widely recognized as reggaeton's undisputed go-to hitmakers.

The record's success also drew significant major-label attention to Daddy Yankee. Machete Music, a Universal company specializing in Latin urban, signed a deal with Yankee to re-release Los Homerun-es in March 2005 (and later Barrio Fino in December 2006). Meanwhile, VI Music cashed in with Ahora le Toca al Cangri (2005), a live CD/DVD recorded in Puerto Rico in 2003. In 2005, while the major labels were courting Yankee, the president of Interscope, Jimmy Iovine, whose roster included Eminem, 50 Cent, and Dr. Dre, actually flew down to Puerto Rico to discuss business in person. A joint venture resulted between Interscope and Daddy Yankee's own label, El Cartel Records. The first release under this partnership was Barrio Fino en Directo (2005), a CD/DVD comprising live in-concert and newly recorded material. "Rompe," one of the newly recorded songs, was issued as the lead single and charted even higher than "Gasolina" had, reaching number 24 on the Hot 100. Moreover, it spent 15 weeks atop the Hot Latin Tracks chart.

The Interscope deal was only one of many struck by Daddy Yankee at this point. He began lending his name, image, and music to everything from footwear (Reebok) and soft drinks (Pepsi) to automobiles (Citroën) and radio (ABC). He also founded his own charity, Corazón Guerrero, to help ex-convicts, and he teamed with CMN (Cardenas Marketing Network (an event marketing and sponsorship agency) to mount an international tour throughout North, Central, and South America.

All the while, he worked intermittently on his next album, El Cartel: The Big Boss (2007), a big-budget affair bringing together an ensemble cast of marquee-name collaborators, including pop-rap hitmakers will.i.am, Akon, and Scott Storch. The build-up to the record was well-planned and pervasive, with "Impacto" (and its bilingual remix featuring Fergie) issued as the lead single well in advance of the eagerly anticipated June release date. Daddy Yankee then starred in a movie, Talento de Barrio, which broke attendance records in Puerto Rico and helped fuel sales of the film's soundtrack, which Yankee performed with a host of guests. His 2010 effort Mundial featured less hip-hop and pop and more Latin flavors, plus the hit single "Descontrol." His sixth album, Prestige, followed in 2011, posting several singles high in the charts, including "Ven Conmigo" and "Lovumba."

In 2012, when El Cartel house producers Musicologo & Menes began issuing a series of collaboration albums titled El Imperio Nazza, it was only natural that Daddy Yankee would appear at some point. He finally stepped up a year later with the seventh volume in the series, King Daddy Edition, which also featured Divino, Yandel, Farruko, Arcángel, and J Alvarez. In 2015, he released a pair of Top Ten Hot Latin hits, "Sígueme y Te Sigo" and "Vaivén," followed by 2016's "Shaky Shaky," which reached the mainstream through a social network app and a hypermarket advertisement. However, it wasn't until 2017 that Yankee would finally break into the international mainstream with his collaboration with Luis Fonsi on the Justin Bieber-featuring track "Despacito." The multi-platinum smash single topped the charts in dozens of countries and tied a record for the longest consecutive placement at number one in Billboard's Hot 100 history.

Yankee followed the success of "Despacito" with the single "Dura," which arrived at the start of 2018. In addition to that multi-platinum hit, a slew of singles followed, including 2019's "Con Calma," which recruited Canadian one-hit wonder Snow for an interpolation of his 1992 single "Informer." The track topped both the Hot Latin Songs and Latin Airplay charts. It also picked up a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Fusion/Performance. Yankee pushed back the release of his seventh album, El Disco Duro, multiple times, stating that he felt singles had become a more relevant and immediate format than full-length albums. He continued to release non-album projects like the three-part live series 2K20 in 2020, as well as share new songs like the 2020 tracks "Don Don" featuring Anuel AA and "PAM," and new 2021 songs like "El Pony," "Problema," "El Gran Robo, Pt. 2," and "Métele Al Perreo," plus remix singles including "Tata" and "Sal y Perrea."

Yankee ended his long gap between albums with LegenDaddy in April 2022. Released a full decade after Prestige, it followed his announcement that he would retire from the music industry that December, at the conclusion of his farewell concert tour. The album debuted in the top spot on the Top Latin Albums chart, and at number eight on the Top 200. Despite his retirement announcement, he continued to surprise fans, releasing the non-album single "La Hora y El Día" (with Justin Quiles and Dalex) in early 2023, followed several months later by "Bonita." A non-album single, "Loveo," hit number 11 on Billboard's Latin Rhythm Airplay chart in 2024. ~ Jason Birchmeier & Thom Jurek

Natti Natasha (born Natalia Alexandra Gutiérrez) is a chart-topping reggaeton, urban, and Latin pop singer, producer, and collaborator. Her singles have consistently reached the upper rungs of the Latin pop charts across the Americas and in Spain. Natasha's first recorded appearance with mentor Don Omar netted the number one single "Dutty Love" in 2012. All About Me, her debut solo album, won airplay across the Caribbean. She spent several years with Omar while expanding her role as a collaborator with other artists. Natasha has appeared on nearly 100 charting singles and released over a dozen more under her own name including 2017's "Criminal" (featuring Ozuna), "Amantes de una Noche" (featuring Bad Bunny), and 2019's "Quién Sabe." Her second long-player, 2019's Iluminatti, peaked at number three. In 2020, Natasha was a featured collaborator/songwriter on no less than 15 charting singles including the smash "Despacio" with Nicky Jam, Myke Towers, and Manuel Turizo. The Prince Royce-assisted "Antes Que Salga el Sol" and the Becky G collaboration "Ram Pam Pam" anchored her second album, Nattividad (2021). She scored a major hit with 2022's "Mayor Que Usted" (with Daddy Yankee and Wisin & Yandel), and continued releasing solo singles such as 2023's "La Falta Que Me Haces."

Natasha was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. Singing in church as a small child, she mightily impressed her mother, who enrolled her at the School of Fine Arts of Santiago at the age of eight. At 14, Natasha started recording songs as a hobby. She began to participate in all the musical events and competitions that took place in Santiago and eventually formed the group D'style with friends. During one of their regional tours, she met Linkon, a producer and A&R scout for Don Omar's Orfanato Music Group. She began recording songs for a project he was working on, and eventually ended up in New York City to work with him in his own studio. Toward the end of recording one day, Omar walked into the studio and was so impressed he asked Linkon to call Natasha later in the day to schedule a meeting. She had no idea it was with Don Omar. From that day on, he became her mentor and has guided her career. She signed to Orfanato Music Group's Pina label, and her 2012 duet single with Omar, "Dutty Love," hit number one on virtually every Latin dance and pop chart in the Americas. Though her debut full-length, All About Me (issued later in the year), didn't do as well, her collaborations kept her in the spotlight and served to mature her performances. She duetted with Farruko on "Crazy in Love," which also landed in the Top Five and raised her profile -- to the complete delight of Farruko.

Along with touring and opening for Don Omar and other stars, Natasha was featured by name on Farruko's number five single "Perdido en Tus Ojos" in 2015. The exposure she received as a result of its video was unprecedented: It rang up 150 million views. Natasha became an in-demand collaborator. She worked with Ozuna on 2017's "Criminal," which landed in the Top Five, and its video topped a billion views. The same year, she worked with Daddy Yankee on the single and video for "Otra Cosa," which racked up 56 million views. In January 2018, she headlined the single "Amantes de Una Noche" featuring Latin trap star Bad Bunny. Its video charted 95 million views during the three weeks following its release and provided significant exposure as the pre-release for her sophomore effort, 2019's Iluminatti. Buoyed by the single "Quién Sabe," the LP debuted at number three on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. Also that year, she appeared on the song "Runaway" with Sebastián Yatra, Daddy Yankee, and the Jonas Brothers, and "Instagram" with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.

More non-album tracks followed in 2020, including "Despacio" with Nicky Jam, Manuel Turizo, and Myke Towers and "Que Mal Te Fue," the latter of which hit 18 on Billboard's Top Latin Songs chart. In 2021, a pair of Top 20 hits -- "Antes Que Salga el Sol" with Prince Royce and "Ram Pam Pam" with Becky G -- anchored her second album, 2021's Nattividad. The record itself peaked at number 14 on the U.S. Latin chart. Her success continued into 2022 with singles like "Wow BB" with El Alfa and Chimbala and the chart-topping "Mayor Que Usted" with Daddy Yankee and Wisin & Yandel. "Lokita" (with María Becerra) and "To' Esto Es Tuyo" rounded out the year. In 2023, she released "Algarete" and "La Falta Que Me Haces." ~ Thom Jurek

Alongside his brother Like Mike, Dimitri Vegas became synonymous with the explosion of EDM, embracing electro-house, hardstyle, trap, and pop into an infectious mix of anthemic dancefloor-friendly club smashes. They broke through with their 2010 Tomorrowland anthem "Tomorrow (Give Into the Night)," and have continued to garner chart and club hits, collaborating with Ne-Yo for 2015's "Higher Place," David Guetta for 2017's "Complicated," and Daddy Yankee, Natti Natasha, and others on 2019's "Instagram." The duo founded their own label and have worked on projects with artists like Afrojack, Era Istrefi, Paris Hilton, Steve Angello, Sebastian Yatra, and more.

Born in Willebroek, Belgium, Vegas (aka Dimitri Thivaios) started making a name for himself DJ'ing alongside his brother at local club nights, earning themselves a residency on radio before playing clubs around Europe. Debuting in 2009 with the single "Liquid Skies" under the pseudonym DNM, Vegas and Like Mike quickly became much sought after. Their first entry into the charts came the following year, with their anthem for 2010's Tomorrowland, "Tomorrow (Give Into the Night)," peaking at number 16 on the Belgium charts. That same year, they founded their own Smash the House label. The duo continued their success with release after release, collaborating with the likes of Moguai (2013's "Mammoth"), Ummet Ozcan (2015's "The Hum"), and Diplo (2016's "Hey Baby").

In 2014, Vegas and Like Mike teamed up with American DJ Steve Aoki under the moniker 3 Are Legend, performing at some of the world's biggest EDM festivals. The following year, they scored a number one dance hit with "Higher Place" featuring Ne-Yo. More singles followed, including 2017's massive hit "Complicated" and 2019's even bigger "Instagram," which saw Vegas and his brother join forces with Daddy Yankee, David Guetta, Afro Bros, and Natti Natasha.

By the end of 2020, Vegas and Like Mike had released nearly 17 singles in one year, including their first foray into Christmas-themed music, with covers of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" and the holiday standard "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." In 2021, they released the track "We'll Be Dancing Soon" with Azteck and Angemi. ~ Rich Wilson