William Omar Landrón Rivera, known as Don Omar, has lived through it all. From childhood to adolescence. From adolescence to the streets, drug trafficking and gangs. Then he became a church pastor, a youth preacher. From there he rose to become a leading figure in what was then a new genre, reggaeton, debuting with Dile in 2003. He faced two gender violence complaints — in 2012 and 2014 — and a lengthy legal process after being accused of illegal firearms possession in 2004. He had kidney cancer in 2024, from which he has since recovered. And now, at 48 and with no intention of leaving the stage, the Puerto Rican is preparing the The Last King tour across the United States and Europe, which will begin next September, and a new album of previously unreleased songs.
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