The Pitbull & Ke$ha North American Summer Tour starts this Thursday!!! Here are a few Pitbull reminders and appearances for this week until the end of May. *There may be a possible change in the schedule*.

• TOMORROW NIGHT Pitbull will be performing on the Dancing with the Stars Season 16 finale. Tune in to ABC at 9 PM+EST. Check out Pitbull videos and photos from DWTS Season 16 Promo.

• May 23 is the kick off date of the Pitbull/Ke$ha North American Summer Tour! The tour will start on Thursday, May 23 in Boston! Pitbull will perform a solo date on May 24 in Springfield, MA. Pit & Ke$ha will reunite on May 25 & 26 in Atlantic City, New Jersey! Click here for tickets and show info!

• EPIC the animated film by 20th Century Fox will be released in theaters (in the US & UK) May 24th! Pitbull is playing the voice of Bufo! In support of Pitbull and the film, we would like to trend #PitbullIsEPIC on twitter!

• “Outta Nowhere” (Pitbull ft. Danny Mercer) will be the 5th single released from “Global Warming” & it will be released on May 28.

• May 31 Pitbull will be performing on the Good Morning America Summer Concert Series on ABC (#GMAPitbull). Check your local listings! The Pitbull/Ke$ha tour will proceed with a performance at KTU’s KTUphoria (#KTUphoria) at the PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ!

Stay updated with the latest news on PitbullSource.com’s twitter: @PitbullSource & Facebook.

Pitbull chats with us about the special and Imagination Foundation, his charity of choice for the $10,000 ACM Lifting Lives donation given on his behalf. ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night airs SUNDAY, MAY 19 on CBS at 9 PM+EST!

According to the Times of India, Pitbull could possibly be teaming up with Punjabi entertainer, Jazzy B.

Last month, Pitbull collaborated with Priyanka Chopra on her single “Exotic” (which the track & video will be out soon!)

The American rapper and musician, Pitbull, who is collaborating with actress Priyanka Chopra in her upcoming music single ‘Exotic’, maybe now teaming up with Jazzy B next. According to sources, a music recording company based in Punjab and UK has approached Pitbull to team up with Jazzy, and he is in the process of giving his consent in principle.

“Since Jazzy has been recording songs with our music label for a few years now, the music company decided to approach Pitbull to join Jazzy. The kind of music Jazzy does is immensely popular in the UK and Canada besides pockets of India. So, if Pitbull also comes on board, the music producers think it should be an international sellout,” says the source.

This information hasn’t been confirmed yet, so stay tuned!

It’s FINALLY here! Jennifer Lopez’s and Pitbull’s “Live It Up”!

The Lyrics Video

Radio Premiere

Be sure to listen out for it on you local radio stations, and be sure to REQUEST it! Tweet it out on Twitter: #LiveItUp!

The single IS NOW available on iTunes! You can also see photos from the upcoming video as well!

What do you think of the song?

Pitbull and J.Lo on set filming the new music video for ‘Live it Up’ (Jennifer Lopez’s upcoming single) in Fort Lauderdale Beach. The single will debut on May 8th.

More Photos / Photo Gallery Link: Video Shoots > 2013 > “Live It Up” (J.Lo ft. Pitbull)

I will be adding more photos as they come in. Also, be sure to check out the new photo gallery layout (thanks Gord!), and post your comments below!

Photos/Source: Sun-Sentinel

On Friday, April 12th, “Mr.Worldwide” (Pitbull) gave Somerset Academy Chapel Trail a surprise visit to encourage students in light of FCAT week. The sound of screams could be heard far and wide as Pitbull entered the gymnasium in which students were assembled. Following a performance by Somerset’s Varsity Dance Team, excitement continued to build as Pitbull took the floor and stepped up to the mic. Although he did not perform a song, he did better by making an inspirational speech. He said that he wouldn’t be where he was today without people who believed in him and he let students know that he believed in them, too. Despite not being able to stay very long, Pitbull left a great impression with the words that he did say about how we, as young people, can do anything with perseverance!

To find out more about the Live Real Change Project and TV special (which airs next week – April 23!), click here.

If you can’t see the video, click here. Be sure to follow the LRC facebook page for more exclusive content and updates!

Here is an excerpt from Veronica Vega’s latest interview with SingersRoom.com

Singersroom: You’re about to film the video for “Wicked” with Pitbull. Can you tell a little sneak peek of the video concept?

Vega: It’s really high energy. The song is really witty, Pitbull’s talking really slick. I think it’s a great combination. We’re both Cuban and we’re both from Miami, it’s like we created a great chemistry. The video is the same, it definitely shows the Cuban Latin culture, not necessarily Cuban and Venezuelan, but I just feel like it’s something that’s gonna be new for Americans and even people in Latin America or across the pond to be able to be like “oh wow!” to be able to be put on game about new dances and new things that we don’t necessarily do here, but are a little bit wild. So the video to me is wild and colorful.

Here’s a photo from the “Wicked” video shoot:

You can hear Veronica Vega’s “El Papel (Paper)” Below:

Source/Photo: CBS MIAMI

Armando Pérez, better known as Pitbull, paid a surprise visit to his former elementary school on Friday morning.

The Cuban-American rapper gave a short motivational speech to Sylvania Heights Elementary’s 3rd-, 4th- and 5th-grade students, who are gearing up to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) 2.0 in the next few weeks.

The Sylvania Heights Principal Amor Reyes called the rapper’s motivational speech “inspiring.” She added, “He spoke about the success that comes when a person perseveres and works hard. He also promised the kids that he would return and do something special for them.”

Be sure to catch Pitbull on the REAL Change: Artists for Education special that will be airing on April 23 at 7 PM on CBS.

Source: USA Today

Pitbull is set to be featured on the CBS educators & music artist special, “REAL CHANGE – Artists for Education” on April 23, 2013. Showtimes are not listed at this moment. If you will not be able to watch the program, the show will be airing online at officedepot.com/realchange.

Updates – 4/3: If you miss the show, you will be able to stream it for 5 weeks on LiveRealChange.com! And also, follow the official LRC facebook page for releases of exclusive content leading up the show.

Update – 4/4: The Hollywood Report reported that the special will air 7 PM+EST.

From USA Today:
A handful of music’s heavy hitters have come together to share their school memories and encourage viewers to help pay for school supplies by donating to teachers or “adopting” a classroom. Pitbull, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Quincy Jones, Lady Antebellum and Jason Mraz will be on hand to take viewers back to their old lockers, pay homage to their favorite teachers and yes, perform a few tunes on the TV special, “Real Change — Artists for Education”.

Videos:

For more information, be sure to visit LiveRealChange.com and follow the website on twitter and facebook! Also feel free to donate and help out with the project by clicking here!

EPIC tells the tale of teenager Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried) who is transported to a magical land inhabited by little leaf people, talking slugs, and birds that you can ride – where she must join forces with a band of weird and wonderful creatures in order to save their world, and her own.Pitbull will be playing the voice of Bufo. He will be joined by Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd and Beyoncé.

Epic will be released here in the US on May 24 (the trailer above is from the UK YouTube page). You can view more international release dates here.

Source/Image: Franchise Times

Pitbull is Miami’s favorite son. Cab drivers can tell you the son of Cuban immigrants’ entire history growing up in a single-parent home in Miami. “Pitbull is a man of the streets,” one American-Cuban cab driver told us. “Nobody gave him nothing. He did it on his own.” A few weeks later at a reception overlooking the Miami skyline at the Franchise Expo South, an Argentine franchise litigator with Greenberg Traurig sang the performer’s praises as well. Pitbull’s appeal, he said, is his ability to use Spanglish so artfully. The hip-hop artist/entrepreneur resonates with the U.S. Latino population, a group that is becoming more and more attractive to marketers, as well as with Latin Americans, a lucrative market south of our borders. He even receives several mentions in author Tom Wolfe’s epic novel about Miami, “Back to Blood.”

As a blue-eyed, fair-skinned teen, Pérez earned the name Pitbull because during the rap battles at underground clubs in the South, he challenged the black rappers with way more street cred than he had in rapid-fire word fights, and came out the victor. In an HBO special on prominent Latinos, he joked that while pit bulls are illegal in Miami, he has papers. Now—at least in his music videos—he’s a lover, not a fighter.

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Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull has the remix with Arianna to welcome in the 2013 FIAT lineup!