Paul Irizarry, known artistically as Echo is a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

-winning Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 reggaeton

Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...

 producer/songwriter.

Musical career

Echo has worked for the last 10 years with major Latin Hip-Hop & Reggaeton artists, producing beats, recording and mixing songs. Echo has worked with Tempo, Daddy Yankee

Daddy Yankee

Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...

, Don Omar

Don Omar

Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey (born William Omar Landrón Rivera; February 10, 1978, is a Puerto Rican Reggaetón singer and actor.-Early life:...

, Tego Calderón

Tego Calderón

Tegui Calderón Rosario is a Puerto Rican rapper and actor.-Early life:Calderón was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, the son of Pilar Rosario Parrilla, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Calderón Ilarraza, a government worker for Puerto Rico's Department of Health. Moving at a young age from his native...

, Vico C

Vico C

Vico C is an Puerto Rican rapper and rap artist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rap and has played an influential role in the development of Latin American hip hop....

, Ivy Queen

Ivy Queen

Ivy Queen is a Puerto Rican Latin Grammy nominated reggaeton composer and singer. She is most commonly known as "La Reina del Reggaeton" . She is also known as the Queen of Rivalries.-Early years:...

, Hector "El Father", Jadakiss, Jazze Pha, Baby Ranks

Baby Ranks

David Luciano Acosta, known professionally as Baby Ranks, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton artist. He was born and grew up in Carolina, Puerto Rico to Dominican parents. He has co-billing on the Luny Tunes album Mas Flow 2, and sings on multiple tracks including the single "Mayor Que Yo"...

, Fat Joe

Fat Joe

Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....

, Tony Touch, Pitbull, Tony Sunshine, DJ Kane, PUYA, La Secta, Diaz Brothers, Yaga & Mackie

Yaga & Mackie

Yaga & Mackie are musicians, known for their collaborative work as a reggaeton duo from Puerto Rico. They are signed to Full Records.-Discography:* Sonando Diferente * Clase Aparte * La Moda * La Reunión...

, Divino

Divino

Divino is a Puerto Rican reggaeton artist, whose real name is Daniel Velazquez.-Early career:Divino began his career at the age of fifteen, when his family moved from The Bronx, New York, to Ponce, Puerto Rico, Divino decided to concentrate his energies on his day job as an assistant in a juvenile...

, Don Dinero, Benzino, Mr. Cheeks, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man

Beenie Man

Anthony Moses Davis , better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Dancehall".-Biography:...

, Capleton, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Cultura Profetica, K7, Cecile, Mr. Easy, Wayne Wonder, Alexis & Fido, Wisin & Yandel

Wisin & Yandel

Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton Duo, consisting of Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar . They started their career in 1998 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time....

, Voltio

Voltio

Julio Voltio is one of the reggaetón genre's best-known artists.His nickname came to be as the result of an accident. Before joining Karel, he worked as an electrician. One day, he stuck his hand in the wrong place and got shocked...

, Tito "El Bambino", Mc Ceja, Mexicano, Baby Rasta, Carlos Baute, Eddie Dee, Tony Rijos, Giovanni Hidalgo, Lito & Polaco

Lito & Polaco

Rafael Sierra ' and Rafael Omar Polaco Molina ' comprise a duo hip hop group from Carolina, Puerto Rico.-Musical career:...

, among other major artist and producers.

In 2004 Echo received a Latin Grammy for Best Urban Album as producer and engineer on Vico C

Vico C

Vico C is an Puerto Rican rapper and rap artist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rap and has played an influential role in the development of Latin American hip hop....

's "En Honor a la Verdad

En Honor A La Verdad

En Honor a la Verdad is a rap album released by Puerto Rican singer Vico C.The song "5 de Septiembre" is dedicated to Vico C's daughter.-Track listing:# "Intro"# "En Honor A La Verdad"# "Capicú"# "5 De Septiembre" # "Flowowow"...

". In 2005 received a Latin Grammy for Best Engineered Urban Album on Daddy Yankee's "Barrio Fino

Barrio Fino

Barrio Fino is the third studio album and first commercially released album by Puerto Rican rapper performer Daddy Yankee, released on 13 July 2004, by Machete Music and El Cartel Records....

" and was also nominated for Best Latin Rock/Alternative album for Vico C's "Desahogo".

Echo's most recent hit single "Bandoleros" performed by Don Omar feat. Tego Calderón was 18 weeks on Hot Latin Tracks. "Bandoleros" is on Don Omar's album "Da Hit Man Presents Reggaeton Latino", #1 on Hot Latin Albums for 8 weeks.

In 2007 Echo's new record label Insomnio Records released a compilation album titled Echo Presenta: Invasion

Echo Presenta: Invasión

Echo Presenta: Invasión is a compilation album by reggaeton producer Echo, released on July 24, 2007.-Track listing:#"Intro" - Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Cosculluela, Hector "El Father", Chyno Nyno, Jowell & Randy, Arcangel, & Voltio...

 featuring all major Latin artists and many American artist such as Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, Jazzy Pha, Zion & Lennox, Yaga & Mackie.

New projects include by Echo includes the first single on the highly anticipated Tego Calderón album on Atlantic Records and 2 tracks on Daddy Yankee's Interscope album and also scoring & co-producing the soundtrack album for Yankee's upcoming film "Talento de Barrio

Talento de Barrio

Talento de barrio is a film released on October 10, 2008 by Maya Entertainment, starring Daddy Yankee. The film was directed by José Iván Santiago, and written by George Rivera and Ángel M. Sanjurjo, with additional material by Edgar Soberón Torchia. It was rated R by the MPAA, for violence,...

". Echo will also be producing Cuban hip-hop/rap band Orishas upcoming album & West Coast group Crooked Stilo.

Discography

• Echo Presenta: Invasion
  Echo Presenta: Invasión
  Echo Presenta: Invasión is a compilation album by reggaeton producer Echo, released on July 24, 2007.-Track listing:#"Intro" - Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Cosculluela, Hector "El Father", Chyno Nyno, Jowell & Randy, Arcangel, & Voltio...
  
  (2007)