Pitbull was raised in Miami, in the neighbourhood know as Little Havana, his parents taught him the power of words when he was young and recalls his first form of performance was reciting Cuban poetry at a bar for his father and his friends. He grew up in a rough and tough areas and witnessed many a dog fight, he would relate to the hunger and hustle of the dogs to be a similar drive to his ambition to make it big in music and adopted the moniker of Pitbull.