{"id":497255,"date":"2026-01-09T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ryan-castro-and-kapo-release-the-video-for-their-global-hit-la-villa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:11:00","slug":"ryan-castro-and-kapo-release-the-video-for-their-global-hit-la-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/entertainment\/ryan-castro-and-kapo-release-the-video-for-their-global-hit-la-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Castro and Kapo release the video for their global hit \"LA VILLA\""},"content":{"rendered":"Miami, FL. - Ryan Castro, the king of dancehall and one of the most influential Colombian artists in the urban genre, kicks off 2026 with the premiere of the official video for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EochZ-iyrqQ&amp;list=RDEochZ-iyrqQ&amp;start_radio=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EochZ-iyrqQ&amp;list=RDEochZ-iyrqQ&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201cLa Villa\u201d,<\/a><\/strong> his explosive collaboration with Kapo. The visual arrives while the song continues its accelerated rise on streaming platforms, entering the Spotify Global Chart and reaching #1 in key markets, consolidating \u201cLa Villa\u201d as one of the most viral Latin anthems of the moment.\n\n\"La Villa\" marks the second collaboration between Ryan Castro and Kapo, following their previous release, \"Donde\". The song takes its name from La Villa, the nickname Ryan gave to his estate located on the outskirts of Medell\u00edn, the same place where the song was born and where the official video was filmed. The visual brings to life the relaxed and sunny vibe of a pool party at La Villa.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/kapo-lanza-su-segunda-album-de-estudio\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"499704\">Kapo releases his second studio album<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe theme has become a viral force on TikTok, generating over 1 million user creations using the audio of \"La Villa.\" Its global impact continues to rise after entering Spotify's Global Chart, reaching #1 in Spotify Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama, and #1 in Apple Music Colombia, while positioning itself in the Top 10 and Top 20 in key territories of Latin America and Spain including Ecuador (#6), Nicaragua (#8), Peru (#12), Argentina (#22), Bolivia (#24), El Salvador (#26), Venezuela (#21), Spain (#32), and Guatemala (#35), among others.\n\nThe dancehall anthem is part of Ryan Castro's most recent album, Hopi Send\u00e9, released in October 2025, which followed his second album Send\u00e9. Both projects, along with \u201cLa Villa,\u201d highlight Castro's Caribbean essence, inspired by the dancehall and reggae sounds that marked his artistic formation during his time living in Curacao.\n\nBy the end of 2025, Ryan Castro concluded the first stage of his Send\u00e9 World Tour, bringing Send\u00e9 and Hopi Send\u00e9 to explosive and completely sold-out shows in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Now, in 2026, Castro is preparing for the biggest concert of his career: his only show in Colombia this year, scheduled for April 25, 2026, at the iconic Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medell\u00edn. The venue, with a capacity for 45,000 people, sold out in just two hours, marking a historic milestone for the Colombian star with global reach.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EochZ-iyrqQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ryan Castro, Kapo, Gangsta - LA VILLA (Video Oficial) | HOPI SEND\u00c9\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EochZ-iyrqQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT RYAN CASTRO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nRyan Castro, known as \"El Cantante del Ghetto\", is a Colombian artist who has become the definition of overcoming. Raised in the Pedregal neighborhood of Medell\u00edn, he started singing on buses. Before breaking into the music industry with his single \"Morena\" in 2017, Ryan lived in Curacao for several years, where he immersed himself in the sounds of Reggae and Dancehall, further shaping his musical identity.\n\nHis breakthrough to international fame came in 2021 with the hits \u201cMujeriego\u201d and \u201cJordan,\u201d both entering the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, as well as staying for several weeks in Spotify's Global Top 50. In 2024, he released his debut album, EL CANTANTE DEL GHETTO, certified 2x platinum by the RIAA, in addition to his viral anthem \u201cEl Ritmo Que Nos Une,\u201d for the Colombian national soccer team. That same year, Rolling Stone recognized him as one of the artists defining the future of music in its 2024 Future of Music edition.\n\nCurrently, Ryan Castro is one of the most popular and highest-selling Latin artists in the world, who continues to break barriers beyond music. In 2025, Ryan Castro continues to expand his influence beyond music by becoming the first Colombian artist to acquire a shareholding in a professional basketball team, the Paisas Basketball Club, based in his hometown, Medell\u00edn. He is now promoting his second album SEND\u00c9.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL. &#8211; Ryan Castro, the king of dancehall and one of the most influential Colombian artists in the urban genre, kicks off 2026 with the premiere of the official video for \u201cLa Villa\u201d, his explosive collaboration with Kapo. The visual arrives while the song continues its accelerated rise on streaming platforms, entering the Spotify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43051,43052],"class_list":{"0":"post-497255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-entertainment","7":"tag-kapo","8":"tag-ryan-castro"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Entertainment"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}