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Jamsha claims to come "directamente de La Guancha" (straight from La Guancha, Ponce, Puerto Rico's coastal tourist area); his roots are in the nearby town of Adjuntas, although he was, indeed, raised in Ponce. His career officially started at the age of fourteen, when he served as a disc-jockey to Nailyn Collazo, aka La Nana, one of the rare reggaetón female artists of the time. La Nana left the music business soon after (at least temporarily) after becoming a born-again Christian, but Jamsha's talent didn't go unnoticed. Both Nana and Jamsha were part of Primal Underground, a reggaetón collective that issued song compilations from various artists, and as such, Jamsha was given a chance to do mixtapes, engineer or produce songs for various artists.
He later became a staff engineer for Jive Records in Miami, until the label changed ownership in the mid-2000s. During his tenure at the label he collaborated with various Latino artists. He mixed, engineered or produced songs for reggaetón artists such as Arcangel, Cosculluela, De La Ghetto, Divino, J-King & Maximan, Randy Nota Loka, Tego Calderón, Tempo and Voltio.
Particular mention has to be made about his collaborations with rappers Ñejo (first as a part of Ñejo y Dálmata, then with Ñejo as a soloist) and fellow Ponce native Guelo Star. In 2008 Guelo Star releases "Putipuerca" (a portmanteau of the words puta -whore- and puerca, pig), the first song featuring Jamsha as a rapper. At first, Jamsha approached rapping humorously, mocking the flow of established artists such as El General. This was also his approach when he recorded "Sendo Cohete" (which literally means "tremendous rocket", but loosely translates to "brazen hussy"), which became a sleeper hit for Guelo Star in late 2008.
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| Jamsha El Putipuelko | 2>
Caraballo then assumed his onstage personna: that of Jamsha, El Putipuelko (the slight spelling change is made to emphasize the Puerto Rican phonetic pronunciation of the name). The name implies that Jamsha actually revels in slackness in his songs. That, plus a preference for old-school dancehall beats put Jamsha in a different category compared to the recent work of most other Puerto Rican rappers. Jamsha's style is, therefore, a revival of underground, the oldest subgenre within reggaetón; some call him as the initiator of a "nueva escuela" (New School), which returns to the overt sexuality and risqué humor that first defined the genre in the early 1990s. As to counter this claim, Jamsha jokingly also calls himself Jamsha, El PutiFino (loosely translates as "The Fine 'Ho"). On occasions he plays with these words and calls himself "El Pitufino", a mockery of Smurfette's name in Spanish.
With the assistance of his producer, Eggie Ruz, Jamsha has issued various songs under their label, Putifly (aka Sin Bichote) Records, and corresponding videos, produced by Low Low Budget Films. He has toured Mexico often, as well as his native Puerto Rico. He has also performed shows in Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, and is due to tour Argentina during 2012. His singles are about to be released in a proper album, Cafrería Épica, due April 2012.
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Jamsha's videos have had a strong following in YouTube, considering the fact that his are independently produced, and not backed by a major record label. Among them are the following:
Ella tiene jevo (pero quiere güevo)- filmed mostly in Mexico, this video features two parallel story lines. In one of them, Jamsha is a cook in a Mexican restaurant. A menacing looking man enters it, along with his beautiful girlfriend. She smiles at Jamsha, approaches him, and gives him her phone number. He is then ecstatic at the chance to sleep with her. In the second story line, an abusive man first ignores, then throws down a balcony, his inflatable girlfriend (alternately played between Jamsha in drag and an inflatable sex doll).
Ya te olvidé - filmed at major landmarks in Mexico (particularly the Ángel de la Independencia monument in Mexico City, using stop animation) and Puerto Rico as well as various locations in Ponce, this video attempts to show Jamsha's "sensitive side" (although a bit in jest). In it, Jamsha is living "the worst day of my life" (he loses his job, his record label drops him and his girlfriend kicks him out of the house, all in a single day), until a shopkeeper (Puerto Rican radio DJ Nino Davis, in a cameo) persuades him to play a lottery ticket. The ticket wins him USD$5 million dollars, but Jamsha's mood isn't too uplifted, even after traveling a lot or finally getting to eat in a classy restaurant. The former girlfriend shows up to the restaurant to make amends, but Jamsha asks his newly-hired bodyguards to kick her out of the place.[2]
El Club de Cochofles - filmed mostly in Ponce and Guaynabo, in Puerto Rico, and partly in Mexico City and Veracruz, this features the story of three very dissimilar female friends who share one thing in common: no intentions of settling down.[3] One is a rich girl, another is a serial shoplifter, and the third one is prone to fits of violence (she wears an ankle monitor after being sentenced for trying to kill her live-in boyfriend -Jamsha, in disguise-, after she finds him in bed with another man). They gather regularly in a tree house when they're not otherwise getting themselves into trouble. The video alternates them with views of two cheerleader squads (one a traditional one, acting demurely, the second one featuring strip dancers dressed in cheerleading uniforms). An outtake shows the violent girl trying hard to record a gangsta rap song. This video passed the 1 million-hit mark in YouTube in November 2011.
Tú eres vilgen - filmed in Ponce (most notably near Ponce's Cruceta del Vigía), this video features three story lines. In the opening scenes, Jamsha and a girl are necking in the backseat of a car until she stops him and asks him to drive her home, since she's a virgin and wants to save herself for marriage. He reluctantly agrees. The video then splits into two lines: one where Jamsha is in a house party broken up by the girl's father; the other has Jamsha mimicking (from the waist up) his attempts to have sex with the girl, but instead pulling several objects out of her vagina (including a live squirrel) and needing various household items as a prerequisite for sex (including a weed trimmer).
El recoge escombros (The Wreckage Cleaner) - filmed in Adjuntas, this video is a fake documentary about Jamsha as a country boy / sanitation worker who is unwillingly pulled into women's houses for sex.[4]
Flejetón - filmed mostly in Ponce, this video describes "skanks" in humorous terms (subjects include two neighborhood girls, as well as Jamsha in drag). It also features Jamsha in disguise as a private investigator, and various gymnastic stunts from street dancers.
Cabro'eMonte - filmed mostly in San Germán, with some scenes shot in Ponce, Times Square in New York City and Berlin, Germany, this video features hand puppets, particularly a Jamsha lookalike and a horny goat, named Cabro'eMonte.[5]
El condón se me rompió (con una Pre-pago) - filmed in Genoa and Pisa, as well as in Puerto Rico, Jamsha intersperses live concert footage and street lip-sync scenes with the story of a Dominican pimp and his Italian hookers, who drug Jamsha in a bar in Italy, place him in bed, and scam him into believing he had sex with one of them with a broken condom. When he returns to Puerto Rico, he's paranoid about his health; five months later, his sex partner calls him to announce she's pregnant (the visuals essentially dramatizing the song's lyrics); Jamsha then imagines himself living in Italy and parenting the child. Cabro'eMonte the hand puppet makes a cameo in the video.[6]
El Padrote (The Stud) - filmed in Ponce, Puerto Rico, this video is set in a tabloid talk show set (which is actually advertising a real Internet social network, Amistad.com). Nino Davis makes another cameo, this time as himself (the show's presenter). Jamsha is shown as Luis Gómez, the father of eight legal and illegitimate children, with a proclivity for readheads (natural or dyed hair). The video has two comedy story lines. The video depicting the song itself has Gómez parading around town, hitting on women (and, in one case, peeping into a girl's skirt), and later taking care of his large troop of children. His life is not without difficulties, since he has to sell drugs to take care of his brood, run from police who wants to arrest him (for either selling dope to the town's mayor or not paying child support), and needing a school bus to move his children around. The second story line has Gómez being presented in an unfavorable light and receiving a beating (by two of his lovers) in the tabloid show. This video had more than 44,000 hits in YouTube after its first day of release.
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^ http://reggaetonitalia.blogspot.com/2011/09/concerto-di-jamsha-el-putipuerko-genova.html
^ Jamsha El PutiFino le deja saber a su ex en nuevo vídeo: “Ya Te Olvidé”, from Puerto Rico Indie (web magazine), accessed on 21 March 2012.
^ Jamsha (El Club De Cochofles) Official Video Pronto, from Flowhot.com, accessed on 21 March 2012
^ Entrevista: Jamsha, directamente de La Guancha, from Puerto Rico Indie (web magazine), accessed on 21 March 2012.
^ Entrevista: Jamsha, directamente de La Guancha, from Puerto Rico Indie (web magazine), accessed on 21 March 2012.
^ Noticia: Jamsha (El Condón Se Me Rompió Con Una Prepago) (Official Video) (Coming Soon), from flowactivo.com, accessed on 21 March 2012.
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