Danny Ocean (singer)


Daniel Alejandro Morales Reyes, known by his stage name Danny Ocean, is a Venezuelan singer, songwriter and record producer born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his professional music career in 2009 with the creation of his YouTube channel.
He is best known for his song "Me Rehúso", released in September 2016, and relaunched as an English version titled "Baby I Won't" in 2017.

Artistic career

Ocean joined the music production industry around 2009 when he opened his YouTube channel by recording his friends singing hip hop and collaborating with them vocally. At this time he also developed a hobby for electronic music in English under the pseudonym Danny O.C.T. He producing electronic music songs such as "Backstage," included in the compilation album Desolat X-Sampler Purple. He published his first EPs, "Paracaídas" and "U-YE", on the iTunes and Amazon Music platforms.
He appeared on the album Kloth Talk by hip hop music producer DJ Katastraphy with the song “Replay” with Bri Nichole, Rello Muse, and Philup Banks, and on the song “Lookin 'For” by Digital Farm Animals. In June of the same year he signed with the Atlantic Records label of Warner Music Group for his music in English, while his music in Spanish would be commissioned by Folio Group and Warner Music.
At the end of 2017, he premiered the music videos of his songs "Me Rehúso" and "Baby I Won't" and released the songs "Veneno," "Vuelva" and "Dembow." In August 2018, he premiered the video clip of his song "Epa Wei," produced jointly with Skrillex. In November of the same year, he was part of the Coldplay EP Global Citzen — EP 1 on the track "Voodoo," along with David Guetta, Stargate, Tiwa Savage and Wizkid.
In 2019, he published the promotional theme "Swing" and in March 2019 he published his debut album 54 + 1, produced by himself and mastered by Ricardo Sangiao. He joined the Mexican band Reik on their album Ahora, composing and producing the song "Raptame." He also has a small participation as a writer and producer with Digital Farm Animals and Lil 'Eddie, on the song "Mamacita" by Jason Derulo and Farruko, under license from the Warner Music record label.
On October 25, 2019, Ocean composed the song "Dime Tú", song by Venezuelan alternative pop singer Maye and composed by Fernando Osorio. The next month, he participated in the first studio album of the Colombian musician, singer and composer, Mike Bahía entitled Navegando, with the song "Detente". In addition, participated in the album New Africa Nation by the Ghanaian-English recording artist Fuse ODG, with the song "Lazy Day", also involving the British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
In 2020, Ocean released another single entitled "Que Lo Que". In April, Danny released the song "Cuando Amanezca", in collaboration with the American singer and songwriter J Quiles, along with Feid and Nibal. Then, during Summer 2020, he co-operated with Ovy on the Drums to produce the tune "Ay DiOs mio!" from Karol G, alongside helping with the songwriting.

Personal life

Ocean was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, in a Christian family. He has two sisters. Most of his childhood was spent in different countries, due to his mother being a writer. He lived in countries such as Japan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Namibia and he is fluent in English, French, Spanish and, to a lesser extent, Japanese. It was not until recently that he returned to his native country permanently.
He graduated as a graphic designer in Caracas, at the Nueva Esparta University in Los Naranjos and then emigrated to Miami, Florida, in the United States due to the complicated economic, political and social situation of his native country. He left behind his girlfriend, for whom he wrote the lyrics of "Me Rehuso." In 2016 he released the song on YouTube, thus beginning his international musical career.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

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Collaborations

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2020
Other singles