DrefQuila

DrefQuila works as a rapper, singer, record producer, and fashion designer originating from Colombia. His first live album, Valium, arrived in 2014 and opened doors for the studio projects Cold and Amatista, which built his standing inside Colombia through radio rotation and streaming numbers. The 2017 single "A Fuego" reached listeners abroad and cleared the path for later releases that accumulated millions of streams. Giddy Up, also from 2017, contained six singles, while Aqua from the next year registered on charts throughout Latin America. In that same year he launched the Bees and Honey (BAH) clothing line. Kun, his 2020 long-player, featured five charting singles. After an EP and additional singles, he unveiled Claudito Sunshine, which broadened his sound into various Latin American styles together with pop and club funk. Los Sentimientos de un Robot, released in 2024, pushed further by incorporating reggaeton, trap, EDM, funk, bossa nova, and bachata while including guest appearances from Gloria Simonetti, Kidd Voodoo, and additional artists.

Claudio Montaño Ceura, known professionally as DrefQuila, was born and raised in Coquimbo, Chile, where an early encounter with Movimiento Original's Cotidiano sparked a deep attachment to hip-hop. The recording left a lasting impression, prompting him to begin rapping in his youth and to participate regularly in local freestyle circles. Within several years he had emerged among Chile's strongest freestylers, entering national competitions and issuing tracks independently. His debut effort, the self-released and self-produced Valium, surfaced in 2014 and was soon followed by Cold and Amatista in 2015. The year after that, the busy artist issued the single "A Fuego," which gained immediate traction, and delivered his fourth album, Giddy Up.

During 2018, after the release of his fifth album Trend, DrefQuila stepped back from freestyle battles to concentrate on recorded work and entered a recording agreement with Warner Music. His first project under the label, AQUA, came out that year, coinciding with the collaboration "Sin Culpa" alongside Argentinian rapper Duki. For the eighth album KUN he enlisted Tommy Boysen, Marlon Breeze, and MelyMel on a set of Latin trap tracks whose eleven songs also incorporated dancehall and EDM elements.

Claudito Sunshine, issued in 2021, positioned DrefQuila as a skilled conceptual artist who blended trap, dancefloor funk, tango, cumbia, and Latin soul without seams. The track "Bonita Vida" fused nuevo flamenco with EDM. In 2024 he put out several singles, among them "PA VER" featuring Maffio and "Enrolar" featuring Kidd Voodoo, the latter of which also appeared on the album Los Sentimientos de un Robot. That release stands as his broadest and most guest-filled project to date, encompassing the atmospheric, electronica-tinged Latin soul of "Ultimo Dia," the bossa of "Bossa Lova" feat. Ovyze, the samba-and-mariachi combination in "Las Flor Te Gustan" (feat. Gloria Simonetti and Fran C), the atmospheric flamenco, bolero, EDM, and heavy bass of "Botero Freestyle (feat. Ovyze)," and the futurist electronic dance-pop of "Despertador" (feat. Fran C), all of which surpassed what critics and listeners anticipated.