{"id":2090332,"date":"2026-08-12T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2090332"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:00:00","slug":"nicky-jam-drops-la-foto-with-cuban-newcomer-el-shadow-after-discovering-him-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2090332","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Jam Drops \u2018La Foto\u2019 With Cuban Newcomer El Shadow After Discovering Him on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tNicky Jam has dropped his new song \u201cLa Foto\u201d in collaboration with El Shadow, and it premieres exclusively on Billboard<\/em> Wednesday (Aug. 12).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased via Plus Media and EMM, the track blends acoustic guitars with rhythmic Afrobeats, charged with Caribbean breeze and feel-good melodies. Lyrically, the track composed by El Shadow (real name Raudel G\u00f3mez Hern\u00e1ndez) is about crushing on someone and finding the courage to make the first move.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNothing is impossible here\/ I wrote to her that I liked her,\u201d chants the Puerto Rican artist in the opening verse. The chorus further cements that sentiment of infatuation and uncertainty: \u201cYou\u2019ve got me liking your photo\/ You\u2019ve got me losing my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tNicky Jam \u2014 who has a 30-plus year career, various No. 1 Billboard <\/em>hits and collabs with Enrique Iglesias, Bad Bunny and Romeo Santos, to name a few \u2014 is now supporting up-and-coming talent such as El Shadow, a Cuban newcomer who has 15,000 Instagram followers at the time of publishing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most curious thing about this collaboration is the way it naturally happened: El Shadow shared a snippet of the track on his Instagram in February and invited his followers to tag Nicky Jam in the comments. Nicky replied within hours, and the rest is history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve done all my releases almost completely solo, but that day I wanted to upload a reel and tag an artist I know fits the song perfectly,\u201d El Shadow tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cNicky popped into my head, and I knew he could hear it because he already had Cubans in his algorithm.\u201d (Nicky previously collaborated with Cuban duo Charly y Johayron.)<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continues: \u201cA week later, he called me to say he was laying down the vocals, and I thought, \u2018Wow, it\u2019s actually happening!\u2019 It\u2019s amazing \u2014 especially considering the situation on the island. Our country is facing so many problems \u2014 there\u2019s no power, no internet connection, everything is a struggle, but Nicky showed his humility and his value to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tResiding in Camag\u00fcey, Cuba\u2019s third-largest city, El Shadow is a 26-year-old artist who kicked off his career when he was only 15, creating urban music. In recent years, the Billboard<\/em> On The Radar Latin artist has found his lane in the Latin Afrobeats realm, lacing it with his husky yet crisp and dulcet vocals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy idol is Kapo,\u201d he expresses of the Colombian hitmaker. \u201cI watched his interviews and was really inspired by his story, and that\u2019s the same message I try to convey to new talent: that it is possible. If you focus and do things with love and passion, you can make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the music video for \u201cLa Foto\u201d below:<\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/el-shadow-nicky-jam-cr-nova-films-press-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Nicky Jam has dropped his new song \u201cLa Foto\u201d in collaboration with El Shadow, and it premieres exclusively on Billboard Wednesday (Aug. 12).\u00a0 Released via Plus Media and EMM, the track blends acoustic guitars with rhythmic Afrobeats, charged with Caribbean breeze and feel-good melodies. Lyrically, the track composed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2090332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}