Nayobe Catalina Gomez,^[1] known professionally as Nayobe (born December 18, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York), is an American singer and freestyle dance-pop musician of Afro-Cuban heritage.^[2] Her most successful singles are "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait", "Second Chance for Love" and "It's Too Late", which reached positions Nos. 15, 30 and 5 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, respectively.^{[3][failed verification]}

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In the early part of 1985, Nayobe became the first Latin American female to record a freestyle song called "Please Don't Go", produced by Andy Panda. Some music critics declared her record the first song of the genre and of the whole Latin hip hop movement which later became known as freestyle music.^{[citation needed]} Nayobe's other hits include "Guess I Fell In Love", "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait", "Second Chance for Love" and "Promise Me". Her second album, Promise Me, took her into a more urban contemporary and new jack swing direction with production by Teddy Riley. Nayobe returned with the self-titled salsa album in 1999.