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Natti Natasha announces her engagement to Raphy Pina.
Natti Natasha is in celebration after announcing the happy news of her engagement to Puerto Rican businessman and music producer Raphy Pina. The performer made the announcement through a post on her official Instagram account in the morning hours of Monday, February 1st.
“I also wanted to shout at the 4 winds. AND SAID YES 💍 @raphypina 😍 #Antesquesalgaelsol 🌓 #teampinatti,” the singer pointed out in her Instagram post where she can be seen wearing a luxurious engagement ring on her ring finger.
The couple’s engagement was made official during a romantic vacation they are currently enjoying aboard a boat in Puerto Rico.
Natti Natasha and Raphy Pina announced their relationship publicly with a special appearance they made in the music video “Unpublished” by the Spanish Fran Rozzano which premiered in late January. According to Rozzano’s statements, the lyrics of the song are based on the love affair between the couple.
Personalities such as J Balvin, Clarissa Molina, Francisca Lachapel, Kany García and Valentina Ferrer reacted to the couple’s engagement: “Congratulations”, “Congratulations affection”, “Congratulations queen. Long live love”, “Congratulations Natti”, “Congratulations.”
What you need to know about Raphy Pina, Natti’s fiancée Natasha
He is a prominent businessman and music producer
Rafael Antonio Pina Neus, known artistically as Raphy Pina, is a prominent Puerto Rican businessman and music producer who has been part of the development of major music careers such as Daddy Yankee, Natti Natasha, Nicky Jam, Archangel and Zion & Lennox.
Pina is the founder of the record labels “Pina Records” and “Urban Music Label”, one of the most representative in the urban genre in Spanish-speaking music.
Daddy Yankee, Nicky Jam, Hector & Tito, Zion & Lennox, Archangel and Tony Dize are some of the personalities who have worked with the famous Puerto Rican in his music companies.
Currently, Raphy Pina serves as manager of Natti Natasha and Daddy Yankee, two of the most representative figures in the urban genre.
He is the son of a major Puerto Rican producer
Raphy Pina is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican businessman and music producer Rafael Pina, who in the late 1990s handled the careers of singers such as Milly Quezada, Manny Manuel, Gisselle, The Rosary Brothers, José Alberto “El Canari” and Juan Luis Guerra.
Raphy Pina’s first steps in the music industry were thanks to her father, who allowed her to take over the reggaeton division in her Puerto Rico-based music company.
Rafael Pina died in 2000, so Raphy Pina took over the reins of his father’s major producer and focused on new projects such as the production of record albums and musical performances by the artists he represented.
He was sentimentally related to personalities of the artistic medium
In the past, Raphy Pina was the boyfriend of model and TV presenter Taina, with whom it was mentioned that she had wedding plans. However, the couple never reached the altar.
On the other hand, Pina has been married since 2011 to Carolina Aristizábal, a leading television presenter of Colombian origin. The couple announced their separation due to “irreconcilable differences” in 2019.
Raphy Pina and Natti Natasha had been immersed in rumors of a possible love affair for a few months, but the couple formalized their relationship with a recent special appearance in a music video by singer-songwriter Fran Rozzano.
Raphy Pina has not been without major scandals
In August 2020, Raphy Pina pleaded not guilty in a Puerto Rican court to charges of “possession of weapons and ammunition.” However, a judge imposed a $ 1 million bail on him.
In 2016, Pina was sentenced to two years probation and paid a $ 150,000 fine for a mortgage fraud. Following the incident, the producer reached an agreement with the U.S. Federal Attorney’s Office and pleaded guilty to one charge of bank fraud and others were filed against him.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported that Raphy Pina was linked to a fraud by Doral Bank in 2012 for the sale of a residence in Humacao, Puerto Rico. At that time, the charges were filed by the authorities.
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