Chencho Corleone
photo: sonu shaji01 · cc by-sa 4.0 ↗Orlando Javier Valle Vega, born in 1979 in Guayama, Puerto Rico, and better known as Chencho Corleone, came up in the island's early-2000s reggaeton underground as one half of Plan B, the duo he formed in 1999 with his cousin Maldy. Across singles like 'Es un Secreto,' 'Fanática Sensual,' and 'Choca,' Plan B helped push melodic perreo — sung hooks riding a hard dembow — into the reggaeton mainstream before Chencho launched a solo run in the late 2010s. His unmistakable, high-set voice reached a global audience through collaborations such as 'Desesperados' with Rauw Alejandro and Bad Bunny's 'Me Porto Bonito,' cementing him as one of the genre's most recognizable vocalists.
Plan B emerged from the same early-2000s Puerto Rican reggaeton scene that Daddy Yankee carried from the underground to a global audience, and Chencho works squarely within the dembow-driven perreo blueprint Yankee helped standardize — a relentless club rhythm topped with shouted, chant-along hooks.
listen forCue up 'Gasolina' and lock onto that insistent dembow snap under its gang-shouted hook, then drop into Plan B's 'Choca' — same driving perreo pulse and call-and-response chorus engineered to keep a dance floor moving.
Wisin & Yandel were the defining melodic reggaeton duo of the 2000s, trading a grittier voice against a sweeter, sung one over glossy perreo production — a two-voice interplay that maps directly onto Plan B's own duo dynamic and its blend of rougher and smoother vocal textures.
listen forPlay 'Sexy Movimiento' and follow how the two voices trade off on a slinky, sung hook over polished mid-tempo perreo; then 'Desesperados,' where Chencho slots his melodic hook into that same seductive, groove-forward pocket.
In the early 2000s Héctor & Tito were among the acts pushing 'reggaeton romántico' — sung, hook-forward love songs laid over dembow rather than straight rapping — the same tender, melody-first mode Plan B leaned into on their romantic singles.
listen forThrow on 'Amor de Colegio' and notice how the beat softens under a sung melody about young love; then play Plan B's 'Es un Secreto,' where the song rides its aching vocal hook instead of a rap, carrying the tune the same way.