Biography
Los de la Nazza formed as a Puerto Rican production and songwriting pair in the urban and reggaeton sphere, with Eliezer "Musicólogo" García and Eduardo "Menes" López serving as its members. Recognition came chiefly from their role as primary architects for Daddy Yankee across the span of 2007 to 2014, during which they shaped numerous singles alongside four albums that performed strongly on the charts; the pair also gained acclaim through the ongoing El Imperio Nazza compilation series issued via El Cartel Music.
García entered the world on December 21, 1981, in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, where a household steeped in music quickly influenced his path. After completing studies at the Gabriela Mistral Public School, he moved on to university-level work. Menes, born Eduardo López on August 29, 1980, in Caguas, Puerto Rico, relocated with his family to Florida at age 11 and first experimented with music production during his teenage years. The two future partners crossed paths in 2005 inside a recording studio located in the Nemesio Canales Residential projects, at a moment when Menes was collaborating with Puerto Rican producer Echo while Musicólogo balanced a solo recording career with operation of his personal studio. Two years afterward, Musicólogo submitted a production demo to Daddy Yankee; the rapper responded by placing the duo under contract with his El Cartel Records imprint. Within that same year, Los de la Nazza contributed a single track to El Cartel: The Big Boss and served as lead producers for Talento de Barrio (2008), Mundial (2010), Prestige (2012), and King Daddy (2013).
January 2012 saw the launch of the initial installment in the El Imperio Nazza mixtape series. Subsequent volumes showcased material from an array of reggaeton performers that included J Álvarez, Jowell & Randy, Farruko, Ñengo Flow, Zion & Lennox, along with additional artists. The concluding mixtape released while still affiliated with El Cartel Records arrived in January 2014 under the title Top Secret Edition, issued shortly before the duo’s agreement concluded; the series itself continued independently for two further years.
Once free of the El Cartel arrangement, Musicólogo and Menes established their own production entity. Their debut full-length effort appeared as the two-part project Orión, with the opening chapter, Orion: Ride of the Universe, arriving digitally in March 2015 through the newly formed Nazza Records label and later peaking at number eight on the U.S. Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Its follow-up, Orion: The Lost Constellation, surfaced in May and contained the charting single “Lonely” featuring Farruko. In 2016 the Imperio Nazza line issued a Justin Quiles Edition whose track “Si el Mundo Se Acabara” ascended to the top position on the U.S. Tropical Songs chart; the eleventh and final volume of the series also emerged that year and spotlighted Kendo Kaponi. The majority of the subsequent year was devoted to outside productions, even as the pair quietly assembled material for a new album. That effort surfaced in March 2018 as Reggaeton New 2017-2018, credited jointly to Reggaetones & Los de la Nazza.
García entered the world on December 21, 1981, in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, where a household steeped in music quickly influenced his path. After completing studies at the Gabriela Mistral Public School, he moved on to university-level work. Menes, born Eduardo López on August 29, 1980, in Caguas, Puerto Rico, relocated with his family to Florida at age 11 and first experimented with music production during his teenage years. The two future partners crossed paths in 2005 inside a recording studio located in the Nemesio Canales Residential projects, at a moment when Menes was collaborating with Puerto Rican producer Echo while Musicólogo balanced a solo recording career with operation of his personal studio. Two years afterward, Musicólogo submitted a production demo to Daddy Yankee; the rapper responded by placing the duo under contract with his El Cartel Records imprint. Within that same year, Los de la Nazza contributed a single track to El Cartel: The Big Boss and served as lead producers for Talento de Barrio (2008), Mundial (2010), Prestige (2012), and King Daddy (2013).
January 2012 saw the launch of the initial installment in the El Imperio Nazza mixtape series. Subsequent volumes showcased material from an array of reggaeton performers that included J Álvarez, Jowell & Randy, Farruko, Ñengo Flow, Zion & Lennox, along with additional artists. The concluding mixtape released while still affiliated with El Cartel Records arrived in January 2014 under the title Top Secret Edition, issued shortly before the duo’s agreement concluded; the series itself continued independently for two further years.
Once free of the El Cartel arrangement, Musicólogo and Menes established their own production entity. Their debut full-length effort appeared as the two-part project Orión, with the opening chapter, Orion: Ride of the Universe, arriving digitally in March 2015 through the newly formed Nazza Records label and later peaking at number eight on the U.S. Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Its follow-up, Orion: The Lost Constellation, surfaced in May and contained the charting single “Lonely” featuring Farruko. In 2016 the Imperio Nazza line issued a Justin Quiles Edition whose track “Si el Mundo Se Acabara” ascended to the top position on the U.S. Tropical Songs chart; the eleventh and final volume of the series also emerged that year and spotlighted Kendo Kaponi. The majority of the subsequent year was devoted to outside productions, even as the pair quietly assembled material for a new album. That effort surfaced in March 2018 as Reggaeton New 2017-2018, credited jointly to Reggaetones & Los de la Nazza.
Albums
Singles
