Has 16 years and 2 million followers on Instagram. is defined as melmano and it is the latest addition to the endless list of Argentine artists who are conquering the current panorama of urban music. His real name is Camilo Joaqun Villarruel, but he has presented himself to the world as Milo J and be the first singer to collaborate with Bizarrap in its new era as Bizapop, far from the theories of the followers who predicted Rihanna, Rosala or Justin Bieber.
All descriptions of the singer, rapper and songwriter They point to Morón’s birthplace (Argentina) as a great musical promise, son of the musician factory that the Latin country has become. In a matter of a couple of years, as has happened with artists like María Becerra, Nicki Nicole, Duki, Emilia, or Bizarrap himself, Milo J has crossed the Argentine border thanks to his music, which combines rap, trap and R&B.
His early start in the music industry
Milo J is about to turn 17, but those who have followed him from the beginning met him when he was 15, when in 2021 he started his musical career with Your turns, the lying corrido that inaugurated his career.
MILO J – YOUR LAPS (audio)
“When I started recording my songs in a studio that some friends gave me, I think I was 14 years old. I stopped playing ball and said let’s send him. In my house, a lot of music of all colors, of all types, of all genres were always like that and At one point, when I was 8 or 9, my sister introduced me to the competitions. freestyle and there more or less I took out the urbanbut in my house we always listened to rock, ballads,” he said about how his interest in music was born.
In addition to singing, Milo J produces (partly) his own music. On the Youtube program after the partyMilo was talking about how he started doing beats thanks to the tutorials of After, the Argentine producer with whom he shares the screen in the broadcast. “I made the beat of (the song) 1708 with a tutorial from him,” he confesses.
As for so many, the time locked up at home during confinement due to the global pandemic caused by Covid was key to the singer’s musical immersion. “I learned from many forumsbecause when I started doing beats in the quarantine there were many tutorials in spanish. I can’t say the same as your litter or Bizarrap’s, which started with full tutorials in English,” he explained. “60% of what I know about beats “It’s because of him, then there’s Matute Sunreda, Tomás Heredia, El Hielo.”
Milo J, the young musical promise
With 12 million listenersmonthly on Spotify, Milo J is considered a promise of the urban scene.
The singer’s definitive leap came with the release a year ago of miraculousthe song that brought him international success and that has accumulated 37 million views on YouTube alone. brunette either Morning are two of his most recognized solo songs of the 18 that he has accumulated since he began his career.
MILO J – MILAGROSA (Official Video)
Their collaborations so far have not gone unnoticed either. Seldom, the piece that was launched last February by Taiu, is the most listened to song on YouTube, with 101 million views. A success that he later consolidated with his bet with Nicki Nicole, SHOOTa song that accumulates 62 million and is nominated for the 2023 Latin Grammy in the classification Best Rap/Hip Hop Song.
Nicki Nicole, Milo J – SHOT *** (Official Video)
He also coincided with her on July 1 in The Evening of the Year III, organized by streamer Ibai Llanos, which was also attended by artists such as Rosario Flowers, Tow, Mara Becerra either Quevedo.
It is not the only time that the Argentine has performed on Spanish soil. This summer the artist performed on June 29 at the Apolo room in Barcelona and on July 6 at the La Paqui room in Madrid. All this after selling out several dates in his native country in less than an hour.
His name also appears on the poster of the Argentine edition of the Spring Sound, which will be held on November 25 and 26 with the presence of artists such as The Cure, Blur, Pet Shop Boys or Beck.
‘511’, Milo J’s first album and ‘Rincn’, his last solo song
Last April Milo landed his first EP,511, of which the artist is producer and composer. The project takes a tour of its history through titles such as Not much,F.L.A., At the border and Toi Done. After demonstrating his composer ability in a personal album, Morón’s album arrived this summer with corneran R&B ballad with a melancholic tone that maturely describes the emptiness of loneliness, insomnia or depression.
MILO J – RINCN (Official Video)
The song was positioned in the top 7 of musical trends and has 14 million listens on YouTube.
Future projects
Belonging to Dale Play Recordsthe same label to which his recently known and new artistic partner Bizarrap belongs, we have some certainties about what we will see next from young Milo.
First of all, this Wednesday we will listen to the 57th session that this Argentine duo has prepared and which will be the starting signal for what seems like the new musical stage of Bizarrap, which is now Bizapop.
Furthermore, a month ago the singer of Seldom revealed in a live broadcast from his Instagram profile some details of his next project: he is preparing an EP: “My favorite song hasn’t come out yet. It’s going to come out in an EP I’m preparing for you, for those who like Milo de Sundayof your turnsof voodooand the Milo of Corner“concludes the artist.
We will be attentive, prepared to listen to it.
The final step comes this Wednesday, October 4, when I launch the session with Bizarrap and thus reach all audiences.
