Following the failed commercial success of Queen's first two studio albums, Queen was dropped from the
Sony label and took a hiatus from her musical career in 1999. Returning to the music industry with her third studio album,
Diva, which was highly anticipated and acclaimed and later recognized as a factor in reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004 along with
Daddy Yankee's
Barrio Fino and
Tego Calderon's
El Enemy de los Guasíbiri, after being certified Platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America. She then began working on her fourth studio album
Real. It too was a commercial success, to a lesser extent, despite initially being Queen's debut full-length English-language studio album. She then embarked on the "Reggaeton Tour 2004" which also featured other artist including
Aldo Ranks and
La Factoria in various South American countries including
Ecuador where she performed songs such as "
Papi Te Quiero" and "Tu No Puedes" in promotion of the album. This was her first tour in South America which began in 2004 and lead into 2005. This stemmed from Guadalupe parting ways with the other co-founder of Perfect Image Anthony Pérez who in turn would launch his own label The Roof Records. It became a commercial success with three Top 10 singles. Ivy Queen was previously married to fellow reggaeton artist Omar Navarro, known by his stage name Gran Omar. They were divorced in 2005 shortly before the release of
Flashback, which influenced the composition of the album. She denied ever having found him in the act of
adultery, while claiming that if she had found Navarro with another woman, she'd be in La Vega Alta, a prison for women in
Puerto Rico. She also denied rumors that she had physically assaulted the woman she caught with Navarro. She stated they had not lived with each other for two months citing the "extensive travels of her husband and his workload of being a producer" as being causes to the end of the nine-year marriage. The label then released
Cosa Nostra: Hip-Hop in 2006. ==Controversy==