RAPPER Guaynaa proposed to YOUTUBE influencer Lele Pons throughout his live performance at 2022 Tomorrowland on July 31.
The couple revealed that they had begun courting in an Instagram put up in December 2020.
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Who’s Guaynaa?
Rapper Guaynaa, whose actual identify is Jean Carlos Santiago Pérez, grew to become recognized for his reggaetón single ReBoTa which was launched in 2019.
Guaynaa launched his personal sound and look into his music, shocking followers who watched his music movies and located the clean-cut, subtle artist to contradict what that they had envisioned.
“You will by no means know who an artist actually is once you give him faux tooth, or a sequence that can most likely hit his abuela within the face when he asks for la bendición,” Guaynaa advised POPSUGAR in 2020.
He mentioned he had at all times regarded totally different from different artists who sang comparable genres of music, together with lots of his buddies.
“I used to be at all times surrounded by rappers, or buddies that dressed up like rappers,” he mentioned, including that they started calling him “el Guaynabito” as a result of he dressed and regarded like he was from Guaynabo.
“Guaynabo is an space in Puerto Rico the place — in accordance with the island’s sayings — the wealthy folks dwell,” Guaynaa advised the outlet.
Regardless of what his outward look may show, Guaynaa’s household got here from humble beginnings.
His father was a sugarcane cutter from Puerto Rico and his mom got here from a background of wrestle to discover a means out of poverty.
“My mother arrived in Puerto Rico with my Cuban grandfather, who was a political prisoner, when she was six years previous. My grandfather, grandmother, and my mother solely had $10 to their names,” he mentioned.
“Principally, I come from a household that earned every little thing via plenty of sweat and tears. I do not symbolize that I used to be raised in a golden cradle, however typically I seem like that.”
Guaynaa received his first introduction to fame in 2017 when he recorded a freestyle concerning the hurricane that tore via Puerto Rico.
It was at that second that he realized the influence reggaeton might have on folks.
He launched his first EP titled BRB in 2020 following the success of ReBoTa.
“I would like this EP to make folks glad. I would like everybody to take these songs and create stunning reminiscences with them,” Guaynaa advised POPSUGAR on the time.
“I would like them to perrear, to get pleasure from, to giggle, to have enjoyable with it, to really feel that heat that brings us collectively.”
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When did Guaynaa and Lele Pons begin courting?
Guaynaa and Lele Pons, whose full identify is Eleonora Pons Maronese, met in 2019, however rumors of a relationship circulated after the pair collaborated on the city observe, Se Te Nota.
The primary put up indicating their potential romance appeared in August 2020, when Pons promoted their new track.
A fireplace emoji and a coronary heart captioned a blooper video of Guaynaa and Pons behind the scenes on the recording studio and having fun with their free time collectively.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t till December 2020 that the 2 confirmed they have been courting.
Alongside a photograph of the pair kissing within the snow, Pons wrote in her Instagram put up: “MINE (It’s official).”
The couple’s relationship grew after they took a visit to Puerto Rico collectively in January 2021 and in August, they purchased a home and moved in collectively.
When did they get engaged?
Guaynaa took the following step in his relationship when he received down on one knee on stage on the Tomorrowland music competition in Belgium on July 31, 2022.
As Pons was on stage ending her set, Guaynaa walked onstage to suggest, prompting an enthusiastic and tearful “sure.”
DJ Steve Aoki was acting at that second and introduced that the proposal was the primary to occur on stage in Tomorrowland’s historical past.
“We’re getting married!!! I really like you with all my coronary heart @guaynaa !! Can’t wait to spend the remainder of my life with you! 100x YESS!!!” Pons wrote on Instagram.
