PitBull

Armando Christian Pérez better known as the famous hip hop artist PitBull was born in Miami, Florida 30yrs ago. Though PitBull was born in America his music has a lot of hispanic influence on it, the instruments used, style, and even some of the lyrics are in Spanish. This is because PitBulls mother and father were Cuban immagrants, who made him recite the works of poet Jose Marti. This later came back to hurt him as a rapper. At a young age Armando knew he was different and not very accepted amoung peers. At the age of 16 his mom kicked him out of the house for using and selling drugs. He still managed to graduate from high school though. Later in life when he began trying to build his career in the music industry PitBull came across more struggles. He was a blue eyed second generation Cuban with Miami influences made his music like nothing out there and not highly respected. PitBull gave himself his stage name because it described him perfectly, "they bite to lock. The dog is too stupid to lose. And they're outlawed in Dade County, They're basically everything that I am. It's been a constant fight," described Armando.

Heres one of Pitbulls songs showing the Hispanic influences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXJ2ehsdW8