"The scandalously -clad Ivy Queen rocked the cover of her 2004 album Real in black lingerie, but not even her fierce vixen image could separate the ""Queen of Reggaeton"" from her even meaner musical beats, which she dropped like a bad habit throughout the ‘90s and into the ‘00s, garnering incredible success for being such a well-known a female reggaeton performer.Born Martha Ivelisse Pesante in Afiasco, Puerto Rico, Ivy Queen spent some of her childhood living in New York before returning to Puerto Rico and finishing school. Becoming rapidly involved in the underground Latin hip-hop scene, Ivy Queen moved to San Juan when she was 18 with dreams of becoming a star. With the help of DJ Negro, Ivy Queen landed gigs at reggaeton clubs, most notoriously the Noise. Debuting at the Noise under the moniker Ivy Queen, the young chanteuse brought down the house and soon thereafter began recording a string of albums working around her experiences at the club. Denouncing violent and explicit sexual lyrics in the hip-hop scene of reggaeton music, Ivy Queen branched out on her own and released her debut album En Mi Imperio in 1996.News of Ivy Queen spread like wildfire, and Sony soon picked up the budding artist to their label, re-releasing En Mi Imperio in 1997. 1998's The Original Rude Girl showcased Ivy Queen's tough girl image, and 2003's Diva came soon thereafter. Real was released in 2004, and not long after the Puerto Rican princess earned her first number one single with ""Cuentale,"" off her Flashback album. Flashback was released in 2005 under the Univision label, and Sentimiento was released off the same label in 2007, earning a number four album and a cameo on the Dance Music/Club Play chart for the title track."