Here's How Much 21 Latino Musicians Have Changed Since Their First Music Video

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1.Shakira — "Magia" (1991):

Screenshot of Shakira smiling into the camera
Sony Music Colombia / Via youtube.com

Shakira — "Te Felicito" (2022):

Shakira in an outfit with cutouts and a tight neck
Ace Entertainment S.ar.l. / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Shakira is a polyglot. She has said she can speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, and some Italian. She has also given an interview in French before.

  Sony Music Colombia, Ace Entertainment S.ar.l.
Sony Music Colombia, Ace Entertainment S.ar.l.

2.Maluma — "Farandulera" (2011):

Maluma with a buzz cut
Sony Music Colombia / Via youtube.com

Maluma (with Feid) — "Mojando Asientos" (2022):

Maluma looking sultry and into the camera while touching his forehead
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: His real name is Juan Luis Londoño Arias, and he got "Maluma" by combining the names of his mother, Marlli; his father, Luis; and his sister, Manuela. He said, "It is a tribute to them because I love them and they are the drive of my career."

  Sony Music
Sony Music

3.Ricky Martin (with Menudo) — "Hold Me" (1985):

A teenage Ricky holding on to a pole
Sony Latin

Ricky Martin (with Reik) — "A Veces Bien y a Veces Mal" (2022):

Black-and-white headshot of Ricky singing
Sony Music Entertainment

Fun fact: The word "loca" in "Livin' la vida loca" was inspired by El Pollo Loco. Seriously. Desmond Child, one of the writers of the song, said they wanted a Spanish word "that American English speakers would actually know" and settled on "loca" because Pollo Locos restaurants were everywhere at the time.

  Sony Latin, Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Latin, Sony Music Entertainment

4.Cardi B — "Cheap Ass Weave" (2015):

Cardi B in a colorful, formfitting dress with a colorful wig in a hair salon
Empire / WorldStarHipHop / Via youtube.com

Cardi B (with Kay Flock, Dougie B, and Bory300) — "Shake It" (2022):

Cardi B in a colorful wig and tank top dancing
Capitol Records / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: One of Cardi's favorite artists is Lady Gaga. She's expressed interest in collaborating with her multiple times and even sang a cover of "Bad Romance" for her high school talent show in 2010, choreography and all.

  Empire / WorldStarHipHop, Capitol Records
Empire / WorldStarHipHop, Capitol Records

5.Bad Bunny — "Soy Peor" (2015):

Bad Bunny in glasses looking at the camera
Rimas / Via youtube.com

Bad Bunny — "Moscow Mule" (2022):

Bad Bunny with lips pursed and looking at the camera
Rimas / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Bad Bunny was paying his way through college by working at an Econo grocery store when his song "Diles" first caught the attention of a music manager. The manager heard the song through SoundCloud, and the rest is history.

  Rimas
Rimas

6.Jennifer Lopez — "Baila" (1998):

JLo in long pigtails and a tank top
Sony Latin / Via youtube.com

Jennifer Lopez — "On My Way (Marry Me)" (2022):

JLo in a lacy dress
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: J.Lo inspired the creation of Google Images. Her infamous 2000 Versace gown became Google's most popular search query at the time, but users could only see text, which presented a gap in Google's services. This eventually led to the birth of Google Images as we know it.

  Sony Latin, Sony Music
Sony Latin, Sony Music

7.Bruno Mars (with B.o.B) — "Nothin' on You" (2010):

Bruno wearing a stingy brim hat
Atlantic Records / Via youtube.com

Bruno Mars (with Silk Sonic) — "Smokin Out the Window" (2021):

Bruno singing with his shirt open and holding a cigarette
Atlantic Records / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: At the young age of 4, Bruno was a professional Elvis impersonator. He told James Corden, "I was impersonating Elvis Presley in my dad's rock ’n’ roll 1950s revue in Waikiki."

  Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records

8.Thalía (with Timbiriche) — "Quinceañera" (1988):

Thalía singing into a microphone
Sony

Thalía — "Mojito" (2021):

Thalía looking into the camera as she holds a microphone and sings
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: She's obsessed with The Walking Dead. She told Billboard in 2021, "Every single time I finish it, I start watching it all over again."

  Sony, Sony Music
Sony, Sony Music

9.Juanes (with Ekhymosis) — "Solo" (1993):

Fuzzy photo of Juanes with long hair
Codiscos / Via youtube.com

Juanes — "La Bilirrubina" (2022):

Juanes with long hair, wearing sunglasses, and playing a guitar at a microphone
Universal Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Juanes graduated in 2000 with a degree in industrial design from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín.

  Codiscos, Universal Music
Codiscos, Universal Music

10.Luis Fonsi — “Si Tu Quisieras” (1998):

Headshot of Luis, looking clean-cut
UMG Recordings / Via youtube.com

Luis Fonsi — "Dolce" (2022):

Luis in a sparkly shirt, mustache, and light beard
UMG Recordings / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Luis appeared in an episode of the beloved Nickelodeon show Taina in 2002.

  UMG Recordings
UMG Recordings

11.Romeo Santos (with Aventura) — "Cuando Volveras" (1995):

Screenshot from video with arrow pointing to Romeo in a sleeveless shirt
Premium Latin Music / Via youtube.com

Romeo Santos — "Sus Huellas" (2022):

Close-up of a shirtless Romeo
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: His current manager, Johnny Marines, was once part of Aventura's security detail before Romeo requested that he manage the group in the early '00s.

  Premium Latin Music, Sony Music
Premium Latin Music, Sony Music

12.Camila Cabello (with Fifth Harmony) — "Miss Movin' On" (2013):

Headshot of Camila holding her hands up
Syco / Epic / Via youtube.com

Camila Cabello (with Maria Becerra) — "Hasta Los Dientes" (2022):

Headshot of Camilla with her hands raised and wearing a dramatic headdress
Epic Records / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Camila immigrated to the US at the age of 6 and learned English on her own with the help of cartoons.

  Syco / Epic, Epic Records
Syco / Epic, Epic Records

13.Becky G — "Turn the Music Up" (2012):

A seated Becky wearing a cap, glasses, sleeveless shirt, and jogging pants
Becky G / Via youtube.com

Becky G — "Bailé Con Mi Ex" (2022):

Headshot of Becky looking serious
Kemosabe Records / RCA Records / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: She went into entertainment at the age of 9 as her own way of trying to help her family financially. She told Rolling Stone that she had a "midlife crisis" at the time and reevaluated what she was going to do with her life. "I pushed that on myself at a younger age than the average kid because at the time, my family had lost our home," she said.

  Becky G, Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Becky G, Kemosabe Records / RCA Records

14.Mariah Carey — "Vision of Love" (1990):

Headshot of Mariah with curly hair singing
Columbia / Via youtube.com

Mariah Carey (with Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson) — "Oh Santa!" (2020):

Mariah, wearing an off-the-shoulder, low-cut outfit, singing into a microphone
Legacy / Sony / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Her last name should have originally been Nuñez. In 1999, she told a Spanish-language show, "[My grandfather]’s last name was 'Nuñez.' My grandfather made up the name ‘Carey’ when he came to America to be more accepted, I guess. But that was funny because that’s an Irish name, and Irish people were discriminated against at that time too ... That’s why, on the album, I just put 'Mariah' now because it’s not even my real last name anyway.”

  Columbia, Legacy / Sony
Columbia, Legacy / Sony

15.Farruko — "Casa de Playa" (2010):

Farruko wearing sunglasses and with his arms crossed against a backdrop of water, boats, and hills
Universal Music Latino / Via youtube.com

Farruko — "Nazareno" (2022):

Farruko with a beard and mustache
Sony Music Entertainment / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: Farruko has always used social media to put his music out there. He began his career by putting his music on Myspace at the age of 16 and gained a following there.

  Universal Music Latino, Sony Music Entertainment
Universal Music Latino, Sony Music Entertainment

16.Nicky Jam (with Daddy Yankee) — "En La Cama" (2001):

Nicky, with a close-cropped haircut and in a sleeveless shirt, smiling at the camera
Sony Music Latin / Via youtube.com

Nicky Jam — "Ojos Rojos" (2022):

Nicky wearing a beanie and baggy sweatshirt
Sony Music Latin / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: At the age of 11, Nicky was helping customers with their groceries as a way to get tips and would often improvise verses while he worked. One day, the wife of an independent record executive came by and asked him if he was signed to a label, which spawned his first album, Distinto a los Demás, in 1994.

  Sony Music Latin
Sony Music Latin

17.Selena Gomez — "Cruella De Vil" (2008):

A young Selena in a short-brim hat with a ribbon and smiling
Disney / Via youtube.com

Selena Gomez (with Coldplay) — "Let Somebody Go" (2022):

Black-and-white headshot of Selena looking serious
Parlophone / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: On top of being a successful singer, actor, and beauty mogul, she is also an accomplished TV and film producer. She's produced shows like 13 Reasons Why, Living Undocumented, Only Murders in the Building, Selena + Chef, and the upcoming shows 15 Candles and Rising. She's also produced films like Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania, The Broken Hearts Gallery, This Is the Year, and the upcoming In the Shadow of the Mountain.

  Disney, Parlophone
Disney, Parlophone

18.Rauw Alejandro — "Dias Asi" (2015):

Rauw wearing an undercut hairstyle and a leather jacket
Rauw Alejandro / Via youtube.com

Rauw Alejandro (with Shakira) — "Te Felicito" (2022):

Rauw in a buzz cut and a scary-looking sleeveless top with metal pieces on it that shows off arm tattoos
Ace Entertainment / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: The first thing Rauw did for his mom with his first big paycheck was pay off all her debts.

  Rauw Alejandro, Ace Entertainment
Rauw Alejandro, Ace Entertainment

19.Anitta — "Meiga e Abusada" (2012):

Anitta sitting at a table with lots of food and drink on it and looking up as she points upward
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Anitta — "Boys Don't Cry" (2022):

Headshot of Anitta with dramatic eye makeup and a wide, tulle neckpiece
Sony Music / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: She's kept her same team, including her publicists, assistant manager, and roadies, since her career launched in Brazil.

  Sony Music
Sony Music

20.Sebastián Yatra — "El Psicólogo" (2014):

Sebastián in a leather jacket leaning on a public pay phone
Prince Records / Via youtube.com

Sebastián Yatra (with Aitana) — "Las Dudas" (2022):

Sebastián sitting on a couch wearing a sleeveless plaid flannel shirt and holding a microphone
Universal Music Latino / Via youtube.com

Fun fact: He told American Latino that he started singing when he was 12 because "a cute girl was trying out" for a school play and he wanted to be her counterpart in it. He ended up getting the part.

  Prince Records, Universal Music Latino
Prince Records, Universal Music Latino