Daniel Muñoz Borrego, better known as El Dany and half of the Cuban urban duo Yomil y El Dany, died on Saturday morning (July 18) in a Havana hospital, sources confirm. He was 31 years old.
Billboard The cause of death could not be confirmed.
Along with Yomil (real name Roberto Hidalgo Puentes), Muñoz found fame by creating a sound that he and Hidalgo called “Trapton”, which the duo once described to Billboard like “our brand. It’s a mix of cheating with dembow and reggaeton.”
That brand allowed Yomil and El Dany to enter the charts in 2016 with their album. Overdose, who spent a week on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart at number 8. Most recently, the duo partnered with Lenier, El Chacal, Ms Dayana, El Micha, and Maurofor on the single “No Volveré,” which entered the Billboard Tropical Airplay list two weeks ago and is currently at number 24.
Dany, who studied medicine before starting to play music, joined Yomil when he was in his early twenties, and the two had moderate success as a reggaeton / urban duo for three years before separating and pursuing careers without incident. . During that time, El Dany also sang with another Cuban star, Jacob Forever. But it took a second meeting with Yomil in 2015 to get praise.
This time, recording as Yomil and El Dany, they released the single “Tengo”. “We took the rhythm of Drake’s ‘Trophies’ and added the dembow above,” Yomil said. Billboard at the time.
The track was a local success and drove the subsequent Overdose. Dany had been posting to his Instagram account literally hours before his death. And while his feed showed him buying sneakers, his Instagram stories were more cryptic, with a black-and-white photo showing him walking down the street with the caption: “People who want to be me, and I run away from myself! “
According to the Cuban news site CiberCuba and various publications on social networks, El Dany was buried on Saturday afternoon in the Colón cemetery in Havana, less than 24 hours after his death.
“Today we woke up to the sad news of his premature death,” wrote the Cuban duo Gente De Zona. “Thanks for giving us your music.”
“How sad to wake up,” wrote Jacob Forever. “We worked together for two years and we lost not only a very talented Cuban musician but a beautiful person.”
“The genre is in mourning,” El Chacal published on his Instagram account.
