Urbano artist Nio Garcia has filed go well with in opposition to his administration firm for “derailing” his profession, based on courtroom paperwork filed in U.S. District Court in Miami on Thursday (Sept. 8).
In the 14-page criticism, filed by legal professional Edwin Prado-Galarza, Garcia alleges that AH Entertainment’s present president Ilianes Ruiz is trying to sabotage his profession after illegally taking possession of the corporate following the dying of her son, AH founder and Garcia’s frequent collaborator Flow La Movie. He’s asking for damages of a minimum of $3 million and for a courtroom order permitting him to launch his personal music, citing breach of contract by Ruiz.
According to Garcia, Ruiz — now appearing as AH Entertainment — has tried to stall his profession by “arbitrarily” failing to launch his new album and related music movies, all of which he claims Flow beforehand authorized for a 2022 launch; “maliciously” disparaged him by way of her personal and AH Entertainment’s social media accounts; and failed to supply royalty accountings required beneath his contract. He additionally alleges she thwarted his efficiency on the Premios Lo Nuestro awards present, inflicting him “to lose a golden opportunity to promote new music and further his brand,” and even delayed a “multi-million-dollar sale” of the corporate’s catalog, resulting in a “substantial loss of income” for Garcia, fellow artist Casper Mágico and Garcia’s distributors The Orchard and Get Low Records (d.b.a. Glad Empire).
Flow La Movie (born José Ángel Hernández), who has additionally labored with high Latin stars together with Bad Bunny and Ozuna, produced quite a lot of Garcia’s hits, together with “Te Boté,” which peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018. Following his dying in a airplane crash that additionally claimed the lives of eight others, together with his spouse and 4-year-old son, Garcia alleges that Ruiz “unlawfully” took management of the corporate after submitting an annual report with the Florida Division of Corporations that listed her as AH Entertainment’s president and resident agent. He claims she had no authority to take action, because the matter of who controls Flow’s property — which routinely grew to become AH’s sole shareholder beneath Florida legislation, based on the criticism — is at the moment pending in Florida’s Polk County Circuit Court.
Pertaining to the property, the criticism cites a “dubious” doc filed by Ruiz on June 24, 2022, that she offered as Flow’s final will and testomony and which names Ruiz as sole inheritor. Garcia questions the validity of the doc resulting from the truth that, through the July 2016 date listed on the doc, Flow was “penniless and had no assets to bequeath to his heirs” and already had two underage kids who aren’t listed, amongst different points. According to the go well with, Flow’s solely surviving daughter, Keigelyan Hernandez-Pena, intends to problem the validity of the desire furnished by Ruiz.
“If Keigelyan succeeds, an outcome that appears likely based on information and belief, Flow will be deemed to have died intestate and Keigelyan will be named his sole heir and, accordingly, AH’s sole shareholder,” the criticism reads. “Ilianes will, therefore, have no valid claim over Flow’s estate and, accordingly, no legal authority to act on AH’s behalf.”
Elsewhere within the criticism, Garcia characterizes Ruiz as missing the information to run a music firm and is utilizing it merely as a car to wreck his profession in what quantities to a private vendetta.
In a pair of tweets Friday that seemingly allude to the lawsuit, Garcia mentioned cryptically, “I’m crazy to release new music but they scammed me with falsehoods and lies. You’ll know what I’m talking about soon.”
Billboard despatched a message to an e-mail deal with listed on AH Entertainment’s Facebook web page however didn’t instantly hear again.
Garcia rose to fame with the 2017 single “Te Boté” alongside Darrell and Casper Mágico. The monitor, launched by way of Flow La Movie Records, gained much more traction when Nicky Jam, Ozuna and Bad Bunny jumped on a remix in 2018, permitting him to attain his first entry on the Hot 100. Since, the 33-year-old Puerto Rican choreographer-turned-rapper has launched different main hit songs together with “La Jeepeta” and “AM” by way of Flow’s label, which was launched in 2016 to help up-and-coming expertise reminiscent of Nio and Mágico.
Discussion about this post