“That intro takes you on a journey through the years, like a time machine, preparing you for El Sistema and all the new music we have,” Zion says on a recent FaceTime call with Lennox from Miami. The track is a celebration of the success they’ve seen since joining forces as teenagers in Puerto Rico and becoming pioneers of the genre. (with Arcángel, Lobo, Plan B and R.K.M.El Sistema, the new album from the veteran reggaeton duo Zion & Lennox, opens with a mini-mix that cycles through some of the biggest hits they’ve released over the last two decades: There’s a snippet of 2009’s “Yo Tengo Una Gata,” a sliver of 2015’s “Pierdo La Cabeza,” a few seconds of the famed “Zun Da Da” chorus that Zion recorded as a solo act, and tons of the booming, deep-voiced ad-libs that Lennox has been perfecting since the Nineties. Their discography consists of three studio albums, two mixtapes, a re-issue, a collaborative album, fourteen singles and twenty music videos as of March 2017.
Throughout their career, Zion & Lennox explored different music genres, such as reggaeton, hip hop, latin pop, electropop, contemporary R&B and dancehall. Four years later, the duo released their third studio album, Motivan2, under Warner Music Latina. Three years later, they signed in Pina Records and released their second studio album, Los Verdaderos, the same year and also participated on the label's album La Formula in 2012. In 2007, the duo decided to have a short hiatus period and they released their respective studio albums as soloists: The Perfect Melody (Zion) and Los Mero Meros (Lennox). Also the track "Ahora" featuring Angel Doze was included into the video game FIFA Football 2005 soundtrack. The production's success was later influenced by Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino, which led reggaeton to mainstream audiences. They were part of the reggaeton underground scene until 2004, year in which they released their first studio album, Motivando a la Yal, under White Lion Records.
Both artists were born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, were the duo was originated in 2000. Felix Gerardo Ortiz Torres (born August 5, 1981) and Gabriel Pizarro (born December 10, 1980), known by their stage name Zion & Lennox, are Puerto Rican reggaeton singers, rappers and songwriters.
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