At the 2024 Latin American Music Awards, dwell from the MGM Grand Backyard Arena in Las Vegas, Yandel shipped an exhilarating show and testified why he’s a genre pioneer. The Latin audio icon also acknowledged the Latin AMA Pioneer Award for his trailblazing contributions in reggaetón.

Clad in a black leather-primarily based outfit and silver chains, looking straight out of a post-apocalyptic Mad Max place, the Puerto Rican artist rocked the stage alongside dancers in matching black outfits and a lot of of his style buddies.

He opened his medley with “Caserio,” a savory sluggish-tempo dancehall tune, and transitioned to “Te Suelto el Pelo” — which is when the reggaetón rhythm commenced to established the mood. The momentum started crescendoing as Yandel spun by implies of his hits this sort of as “Permítame,” at initial by Tony Dize, and was prior to extended joined by Jay Wheeler.

The superstar then smoothly moved on to sing his banger “Encantadora” collectively with Farruko, who sent sultry vocals. As the light-weight perform continued to intrigue, Feid stepped onstage in his signature neon green, and they equally started to sing “Fecha” from their newest joint album Manifesting 20-05.

Just soon after the virtually ten-moment basic efficiency was accomplished, Jay Wheeler, Farruko, Feid, Steve Aoki and Arcángel gathered to present heartfelt text of why Yandel has created this sort of an influence in Latin new music.

Here’s Yandel’s extensive speech beneath:

“I have been in this occupation for a extended time, thinking of the reality that 1998. I chose to be in this occupation for the purpose that of my seriously like for music and the precise take pleasure in of men and women beginnings, when reggaetón was really small. You are living in instances with numerous hurdles alongside the way, but when you seriously do not shed religion and you established your thoughts to perseverance, work and tough perform and passion, there is no 1 or really small that can cease you. You are most likely to make it.

“And these magical moments are exclusive and I sense seriously really pleased to be beneath. A lot of thanks to my do the job, my employees, and to all the artists and colleagues who have collaborated with me all through all this time, all this way of music. Involving them my associate of lots of battles, my brother Wisin, I like you with all my heart, my brother. We have each of these been blessed as duos and with our new job also as solo artists, so it is a blessing. Brother, I appreciate you with all my heart and we are going to preserve breaking.

“To my people at Warner Latino, Alejandro Duque and Roberto Andrade, thank you for believing in me, for supporting me in this gorgeous stage of my vocation. To my help that you give me every operating day, with out you this would not be doable. So substantially respect. Manifesting is on the avenue, breaking. Thank you.”

Thalia, Becky G, Alejandra Espinoza and Carlos Ponce co-hosed the award ceremony that supplied in a mix of English and Spanish, marking the really initial time any significant U.S. award demonstrate showcased a bilingual broadcast by implies of Univision.