Omar David Hernández Colón, known as Darkiel, is a Puerto Rican

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singer and actor, born in

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. He is better known for his role in the

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biographical series of

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called '' Nicky Jam: El Ganador''.

Career

Darkiel started his career at the age of nineteen with social media, doing freestyles on

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page Freestyle Mania Music. His inspirations are

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and

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. Darkiel has issued over two dozen video singles. They include "Ella Me Oculta," "Aqui Estas Tu" (and a remix), "Si Me Apagan el Sol", "Montate y Zumba", and a lyric video of the J Alvarez remix of "De una Forma Diferente" that gained over 300,000 views within four days of posting it in August 2016. Darkiel's videos have amassed over 40 million views on

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. Darkiel acted in the biographical series ''Nicky Jam: El Ganador'', based on the story of American reggaeton artist

, as the younger self of the latter. In 2019, Cárdenas Marketing Network, a company that has marketed other Puerto Rican musicians such as Bad Bunny and Marc Anthony, began work with Darkiel.

Lyrics

His lyrics talk about the ups and downs of romance and Darkiel has said that he "doesn’t need to be explicit to be liked by youth". He has been praised for releasing "clean

". At one time he stated he did not want to be part of the

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, saying in Spanish: and

References

{{reflist 1994 births Living people Puerto Rican reggaeton musicians People from Lares, Puerto Rico