J Balvin is revealing how he almost named himself after a seriously hot pepper. The 35-year-old Colombian star recalled how a friend once told him that he needed a “spicy” stage name, while taking part in the latest episode of “Hot Ones“.
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Yeah, that’s funny,” said Balvin, whose real name is José Álvaro Osorio Balvin. “When I was looking for my name, I had a friend, his name is Fat Al and he’s a rapper.
And he was like, ‘You should have a spicy name like Scotch Bonnet.'” He continued, “This was the first time I actually see what he was talking about.
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