Héctor "El Father"

Héctor Luis Delgado Román, also known by his stage name Héctor el Father, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and pastor. He rose to fame as a member of the duo Héctor & Tito Los Bambinos. As a producer, he is credited with discovering several major artists such as Tempo, Don Omar and Wisin & Yandel. After becoming a born-again christian, he announced his retirement from music on September 3, 2008, with the album Juicio Final, but his series of Farewell Concerts went on until May 2010. After retirement, he obtained a degree in Theology at Southern Methodist University and has dedicated his life to Christianity. In 2015, he founded Maranatha Radio Ministries in Río Grande, Puerto Rico. In his recent work as a preacher, he has touched many lives, moving many rappers to follow in his footsteps including Tito el Bambino and Almighty. He has also been prolific in the field of linguistics, coining several terms which have remained in Puerto Rican slang for decades such as calenturri, as well as phrases including sácala, dale úsala. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héctor_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)