The DEY

一震撼樂壇的兩男一女混搭組合，融入美聲節奏藍調、動人流行曲式、熱情拉丁舞韻、街頭嘻哈律動、世界種族音樂等元素，The DEY更精通兩種語言，故于創作上以英語和西班牙文交替運用，卻與樂迷間毫無障礙的透過音符傳遞那些動人旋律。 　　 由Divine、Elan、Yeyo等三人所組成的The DEY，成軍前彼此互不認識，卻對音樂有著相同理念，在2005年決定攜手勇闖歌壇。隨即到了Yeyo位于邁阿密的錄音室灌制一些DEMO帶，順利得到Epic主流大廠賞識，先于2007年推出首張四首歌的EP《The DEY Has Come》，其中單曲《Give You The World》打入饒舌榜Top22席次，受邀雷鬼樂界天才小子Sean Kingston的《There’s Nothing》, 以及節奏藍調界新漂亮寶貝Paula DeAnda的《Walk Away(Remember Me)》等暢銷作品中助陣，贏得更多矚目焦點。主唱及饒舌手相互對應，吸收來自不同文化的血液、音源，伴隨派對歡樂節拍流竄至全身，新世紀嘻哈樂團The D.E.Y.就此誕生！ 　　 洗禮過后，完整錄音室專輯《The DEY Has Come》終于問市，請來超級制作黃金組合JR Rotem、Timbaland、Stargate、Fernando Garibay連手打造。宣泄拉丁+嘻哈/饒舌氣息的《Ya Llego》，清脆吉他撥奏甚是動聽，參加饒舌幫腔的Fatman Scoop，曾協助Missy Elliott的《Lose Control》而獲葛萊美「最佳饒舌歌曲」提名；率先闖出知名度的《Give You The World》一并珍藏，取樣Earth Wind & Fire的經典《Fantasy》；灌進Everything But The Girl咸魚大翻身的《Missing》的《And I Miss You》以及動聽指數滿點的《She Said》，入選首波雙A單曲，漂浮在和緩順暢韻律之中，相信能贏取流行界的歡迎；性感火辣的《Get The Feeling》，串起電子強烈激流，碰撞出舞池最HOT火花；散發誘惑無比的異國情調之《Dame Un Momento》，拼貼出中東與西方時髦韻腳；《No Looking Back》、《Taken》都是耐聽的優質抒情小品集 by Marisa Brown Though the trio of musicians who make up the DEY didn't grow up together, their interests, both personal and musical, were similar enough that when they eventually met they knew immediately that they should work together. MC Divine, who was born and spent much of his life in the South Bronx but moved to Puerto Rico in 1998, had first met singer Élan Luz Rivera (who grew up in New York and made her first appearance on Broadway by age 16, when she played Cookie in the musical The Capeman) at Miami's Soulfrito Festival in the early 2000s, where they were both performing, but it wasn't until 2005 that they were introduced again. By this time, Divine had already hooked up with Yeyo, a Puerto Rican MC who had made splashes in the island's underground hip-hop scene in 1999 when he released the politically charged "Viequez," and with whom he had connected instantly (the night they met they recorded a song that ended up on the radio). Calling themselves the DEY, the three went into Yeyo's Miami studio, where they began working on their own material, a combination of urban R&B, Latin, hip-hop, and pop meant to have cross-cultural (and language) appeal. Signed to Epic, they began recording the tracks that would end up on both their EP, The DEY Has Come (2007), and their debut full-length, but not before co-writing and performing in singer Paula DeAnda's song "Walk Away."