Albert Hype came to Bad Bunny without connections and a song changed his life: the story of the Cuban-Puerto Rican producer

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(CNN Spanish) --

 A stroke of luck brought the Cuban-Puerto Rican producer Albert Hype into the hands of Bad Bunny.

If you will, he was indirectly discovered by the

in 2018.

"I would like to tell you that I have a more interesting story," laughs Albert Hype to Zona Pop CNN in an interview via Zoom.

Although for Hype himself the story is not as electrifying as that of artists like Justin Bieber or Billie Eilish, who have been discovered through YouTube and Soundcloud respectively, it does show that you can reach the big leagues without having any connection with a heavyweight of the music industry.

(Credit: Imagine It Media/NEON16)

How Bad Bunny got to Albert Hype

It all happened towards the end of the boreal summer of 2018, Hype tells Zona Pop CNN.

At that time, the producer had a small studio that he would go to every day to make music.

“I had in my mind that I would try to do 10 tracks [a day].

I almost never made it to ten, but maybe I would hang out with five or six,” she says.

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That discipline led him to have a bank of songs that he was later able to offer to RIMAS, Bad Bunny's record label.

Hype would not imagine that this request, a very common one according to him, would lead him to one of the most relevant artists in the Latin world.

“One day they called me to see if I had clues because RIMAS was going to be in a studio and they were going to show the rabbit clues.

I have listened to that so many times... I always had tracks, I sent them and nothing happened”, says the producer.

Hype offered RIMAS a folder containing

he had produced and the rest was history.

“[I told them] take what you want from there.

I forgot about that.

I went to sleep,” he says.

Without knowing anything about the music industry and without any contact, Albert Hype managed to give his work what they call the “big break”, that is, the dream opportunity.

His track was used "We are upstairs", the collaboration of Bad Bunny and Myke Towers, released in 2019.

The theme has more than 42 million views on YouTube and exceeds 85 million views on Spotify.

That was the first song that marked the rest of the history in the production of Hype and for which that same year, 2019, he meets the famous producer Tainy and joins the ranks of NEON16, the talent incubator named in 2021 as the most innovative music company by Fast Company magazine.

There he worked on songs like “Baila Conmigo” by Selena Gómez from her EP in Spanish “Revelación”;

Kali Uchis' "Telepathy";

"I congratulate you" by Shakira;

or Bad Bunny's Tarot, part of “A summer without you”, her most recent album.

The new facet of Albert Hype

Just as Tainy did recently with Yandel, Albert Hype will begin to release music and later an album as an artist producer that will feature voices from guest artists.

For the first track, which will be released in the coming weeks, Hype invited three performers, whose names he keeps secret during the interview.

“I am going to release a song with three artists with whom I have worked a lot and I am trying to bring them a little more into my world, when I started playing guitar in a punk group,” commented Hype.

Listening to the songs that Hype has produced in the urban, you would not imagine that its roots are in punk and rock.

Salsa is also another genre that he has listened to since childhood thanks to his parents.

“I grew up listening to a lot of salsa because my dad is a salsa fan.

I grew up here in Miami, so I always listened to American music [in English]... I listened to everything, I moved between the two worlds.

At school I listened to a lot of rock, pop, hip hop music.

That's where the main influence began," Hype told CNN Pop Zone.

Hype will release two or three singles to be followed by their first studio album, which will probably be released next year.

So far there are no specific details about the songs, themes and invited artists.

While we await this new era in Albert Hype's career, you can meet and enjoy some of his productions here: