Bad Bunny’s ex–girlfriend is suing the superstar for at minimum $40 million about a very well-known voice recording she supplied the singer ahead of he became renowned.
Carliz De La Cruz Hernández, whose breathy “Bad Bunny, baby” recording was included in two of the artist’s songs, claimed in a lawsuit submitted this thirty day period in a Puerto Rico courtroom that her voice and the phrase she came up with are becoming utilized devoid of her authorization.
The lawsuit, which was to start with documented by on-line Puerto Rico information web page Noticel, notes that the phrase was made use of in the “Pa Ti,” tune, which has far more than 355 million views on YouTube and additional than 235 million reproductions on Spotify. It also was applied in the “Dos Mil 16” tune, which has far more than 60 million views on YouTube and 280 million reproductions on Spotify.
The lawsuit states that De La Cruz’s “distinguishable voice” also has been applied with out her consent for music, documents, promotions, around the globe concerts, tv, radio and social and musical platforms.
“Since then, thousands of men and women have commented directly on Carliz’s social media networks, as properly as each individual time she goes to a general public spot, about the ‘Bad Bunny, child.’ This has caused, and at present triggers, that De La Cruz feels nervous, anguished, intimidated, confused and anxious,” the lawsuit states.
Also sued is Noah Kamil Assad Byrne, manager for Bad Bunny, whose authentic title is Benito Martínez Ocasio.
Assad and associates of Negative Bunny did not quickly reply to a concept for remark.
De La Cruz and Martínez very first became a pair in 2011. A calendar year afterwards, they started learning at the College of Puerto Rico in the north coastal city of Arecibo when also operating at a close by grocery keep. The lawsuit said that through that time, Martínez was continuously creating tunes and rhythms and would seek views from De La Cruz, who also was in demand of scheduling his functions and dealing with invoices and contracts.
The delivery of the phrase, “Bad Bunny, toddler,” arrived about in 2015, and Martínez requested De La Cruz to record herself expressing it. She did so in a lavatory a person day even though being with a friend simply because which is exactly where it was the very least noisy and then sent it to him, the lawsuit said.
On Jan. 1, 2016, Martínez questioned De La Cruz to marry him, and they designed programs to do so in July 2016. But in April 2016, Rimas Entertainment signed Martínez. That same yr, De La Cruz was accepted into the College of Puerto Rico’s regulation college, and she ended her relationship with Martínez in May perhaps 2016.
They bought back again collectively in 2017, but as soon as again went their different paths.
Then in May perhaps 2022, a Bad Bunny consultant arrived at out to De La Cruz, stating he necessary to chat to her.
“In that phone, (the consultant) stated, ’I know you really don’t like to converse about Voldemort (referring to Martínez), but I require to check with you something,” the lawsuit mentioned.
He made available her $2,000 to obtain the recording of her voice. De La Cruz declined and then spoke with somebody at Rimas Enjoyment who also offered to buy it, saying the recording would be utilized in the future album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” the lawsuit said.
But a offer was by no means achieved, and the tune was released without having De La Cruz’s consent, according to the lawsuit.
