Nayer

Nayer Regalado (born August 2, 1988) better known as Nayer, is an American pop singer. She is known as being a featured artist along with Ne-Yo for Pitbull's 2011 hit single "Give Me Everything", produced by Afrojack. She is also known for her hit single in 2011 entitled "Suave (Kiss Me)" featuring American rapper Pitbull and Swedish-Congolese singer-songwriter Mohombi. Early life edit: Nayer was born on August 2, 1988 to a Cuban father and a mother of Brazilian ancestry. A native of Miami, Florida, she began a singing and acting career at the age of 7. Biography edit: 2002-2007: Career beginnings and Anything But Monday edit: Nayer has appeared in numerous ads, commercials, soap operas, carnivals, foundations, charity events and TV programs. She has participated in a major talent competition named "Star Search" and she has also appeared in television show Sábado Gigante, and in a show called La piñata loca (broadcasted through Univision). Supported by her parents, she moved to Los Angeles when she was 14, to record a six song demo. After shopping the demo to labels, Nayer secured a major recording deal at Miami-based and Latin music-oriented Sony Discos which was looking for a voice for a new track called "First Kiss (Primer Beso)". Recorded by Nayer at the age of 16, produced and remixed by DJ Fluid in both English and Spanish, "First Kiss (Primer Beso) " is a dance song, and climbed dance music charts soon after its release in June 2002 hitting the Billboard Top 40 Dance Charts. However, due to business reasons, Nayer's debut album was never released. Nayer continued on sharpening her singing, dancing, guitar and piano skills while still singing/song-writing until she was picked up in 2005 to replace Candice Pillay in pop-R&B girl group Anything But Monday, they released their first single "Buckwild" in 2008, by allowing DJs to access and file-share the master tracks for remixing. 2007-present: Pitbull and debut album edit: Nayer was discovered by Cuban-American rapper Pitbull in 2007 whom she had the opportunity to do a collaboration with a few years back while signed to Sony. She immediately got in with producers and started working on her music & song-writing, while in the process she appeared on various songs and videos of the rapper from his albums Rebelution (2009), Armando (2010) and Planet Pit (2011), such as "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" and "Shut It Down" ( feat. Akon ) . She then did a joint venture with RedOne who quickly believed that he saw the Star quality and the "IT" factor in Nayer, "She's a Superstar!. In 2011, Nayer was featured on Enrique Iglesias' single "Dirty Dancer (Remix)" along Usher and Lil Wayne, and she held a cameo appearance in Enrique Iglesias' "I Like How It Feels" music video. She was also a featured artist on Pitbull's smash "Give Me Everything", along with Ne-Yo and Afrojack. The song topped charts at #1 worldwide , giving her the opportunity to perform in such shows like "Dancing With The Stars", American/Latin Billboards, "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, the Mtv Music Awards, Premios Juventud (Latin) Jimmy kimmel, All Star NBA Halftime Show and many more. Nayer was also nominated in 2011 for MTV Video Music Award as Best Collaboration, and Up for 4 Latin Billboard Nominations in 2012 with "Give Me Everything", being the 2nd female to have the most Nominations. In Sep 2011, The Singer released her single, a song titled "Suave (Kiss Me)", which features Pitbull and Swedish-Congolese singer Mohombi. She then joined Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull on the "Euphoria Tour" across the U.S and Canada. Following her success she released a Spanish cover of Rihanna's smash hit "Only Girl (In The World)" featuring Spanish rapper El Cata. She also released track featuring Pitbull titled "Dance Like You" along with the original version of DJ Steve Aoki's track "Come With Me" in which she was featured in but she was replaced as the lead vocalist for the album. Her single reached #2 on Swedish iTunes, #1 in Morocco, #3 in France, Top 20 in Canada, entered the Top 10 Billboard Charts in Turkey, reaching #1. Nayer is working on her debut album with RedOne, and other producers has just finished the Euphoria tour with Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias. She is presently working to launch new material. In 2012 Nayer was featured in the official remix of Fonseca's single "Eres Mi Sueño" alongside Spanish rapper Maffio.

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