Nick Rivera Caminero, popularly known in the music world as Nicky Jam, is an American urban music singer and songwriter. He was born on March 17, 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts. He has Puerto Rican ascendance from his father and Dominican from his mother. From the age of 10, he showed an interest in urban music, performing raps and improvisations with his friends. Later, he moved with his whole family to Cataño, Puerto Rico, where Nicky began working as a packer in a supermarket, to help financially at home.

In 1992, while working, he began to rap and improvise, capturing the attention of customers who were in the supermarket, among the clients was the wife of a recording director of Puerto Rico, who was surprised with his attitudes and who he sang to and decided to take Nicky to her husband. The young man gave his best rhymes to the businessman, who was surprised by the excellent performance of Nicky Jam and offered to sign a recording contract. The singer recorded his first rap and reggae album titled “Distinto a Los demás” which was not very successful in the market, but he did have several DJ’S take him into account as a support for some musical events. At that time a passerby called him “Nicky Jam” in the form of a joke, and from there the singer took his stage name.

In the middle of the decade of 1990, Nicky Jam met the Reggaetonero Daddy Yankee, by whom he felt much respect and admiration; Yankee offered to work with him as a hype man in a concert he would perform in the Dominican Republic. After that concert and thanks to the excellent performance, Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam formed the duo “Los Cangris” recording songs like “En la cama” and “Guayando.” In 2001, one of Nicky’s songs was part of the album “El Cartel II” by Daddy Yankee, with the song “Tu Cuerpo en la cama.”

In the month of December of the year 2007, the urban singer resumed music with the release of his album “The Black Carpet” with which he reached position 24 of the Top Latin Albums of the United States. The album was a regular success, however, Nicky Jam continued working in urban music throughout the 2000s, with very little success and recognition, so much so that the singer said:

For the month of February of the year 2015, Nicky Jam signed a contract with Sony Music Latin and with SESAC Latina and launched the song “El Perdón” which also included a remix in collaboration with Enrique Iglesias. The song became a total success worldwide, so much that it reached the first position in several singles lists of Spain, France, Portugal, Holland, and Switzerland. In countries like Bulgaria and Belgium, it reached the second position in several musical lists, position 4 in Sweden, the 8 in Germany and the 9 in Austria. In the United States, it reached the 65th position of the Billboard Hot 100 and the 82nd of the Canadian Hot 100.

On September 15, 2017, the song and video of “Cásate Conmigo” was released, the theme of Colombian vallenato singer Silvestre Dangond, where the Puerto Rican collaborated giving his urban touch. That same year he collaborated in the song “Bella y sensual” by the singer Romeo Santos and where Daddy Yankee also participated.