One of the early champions of reggaeton, Nelson Díaz Martínez (born on April 7,
1972), who goes by the stage name of DJ Nelson, is a Puerto Rican producer and
entrepreneur that greatly contributed to popularizing and helping shape the
sound of the genre. Díaz Martínez’s music career started as head producer for
The Noise, a collective of DJs, MCs, and club managers that organized events
around the capital of San Juan in the early 90s. He went solo in 1997 with the
release of Nel-Zone: The Real Thing and The Flow, which were followed by The
Flow: Sweet Dreams in 2000. Besides his ...