Urban music reigns today on all listening platforms in the world, and if we talk about it we must mention Argentinaa land of cultivation of this art, where artists who are stars today have grown up, and if we talk about them, we must first refer to Mauro Ezequiel Lombardo Quirogabetter known as Duki.
He was born on June 24 almost 28 years ago, a time in which the artist has not stopped fighting to follow his dreams, as he clearly states in one of his most listened to songs, Music Session 50 with Bizarrap, where he defined himself as a young man “little warrior who plans to beat life with his fists”.
From The Fifth Step, to stardom
Coming from Almagro (Buenos Aires), he has seen everything in his life, and After leaving his studies aside, he found meaning in his life thanks to rapa style that he dominated from a young age, and this was reflected in the freestyle battles that were organized in Parque Rivadavia, in the Caballito neighborhood, famous by the name of The Fifth Step.
A competition that reached YouTube, where everyone could access these battles, making them viral. This, precisely, led Duki to brush fame with his fingertips by becoming the champion in 2016. That was just the beginning.
He made rap a new way of seeing art, popularized the genre both in Argentina and South America first, and then conquered the world. After winning El Quinto Escalón, in 2017, he was able to record his first single, ‘She Don’t Give a FO’, which quickly reached the Top-10 of the charts..
He then crossed the first stone on a path that today seems like a path. She worked with new artists, made collaborations and the nominations for the great music awards began to come into his life, like the two she received at the Latin Grammys in 2020 from the hand of ‘Talk tomorrow’ and ‘Drip’.
Then, in 2021, he launched ‘Since the end of the world’, his first number 1 in digital albums throughout Argentina, and which later achieved platinum certification. A very special 2021, as he was also the most listened to Argentine artist in the world on Spotify, according to ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine.
A year later, he continued breaking barriers and swept the stage, triumphing in four concerts at the José Amalfitani Stadiumand being the first artist to get a rap genre concert.
An icon in Argentina
Duki is considered the ‘Leader of the Urban Movement’ in Argentina. He is one of the greatest representatives of music in the country, and his fans already number in the tens of millions spread around the world. They all follow his style, the Argentine slang, the way he speaks, as well as the image he represents.
An image that surprises everyone who sees it, with his face full of tattoos. Cannon fodder for critics, who the more he saw that he grew in music, the more it led him to be in the spotlight, in addition to his character: “People have a wrong image about me, and I blame myself for how I behave.” showed,” he then responded.
‘Sold out’ at the Bernabéu
Duki has visited Spain several times. He has done it with force, also arriving in Madrid. But, as a result of the ‘boom’ that his career has generated, it was expected that he would return to the Spanish capital, and he has done so in a big way, managing to hang the ‘sold out’ sign at the Santiago Bernabéu in the concert that celebrate this Saturday, June 8.
