That infectious boom-ch-boom-ch sound that characterizes reggaeton is, in fact, called the Dembow rhythm. Nando Boom is considered to be one of the godfathers of the movement, as his song "Ellos Benia (Dem Bow)," a cover of Shabba Ranks' " Dem Bow," popularized the unique beat. Panamanian artists like Nando Boom and El General took Jamaican reggae songs and sang over them in Spanish back then it went by the name reggae en Español (Spanish reggae). Even so, the genre wouldn't exist without West Indian immigrants who came to the country to help construct the Panama Canal, who married reggae and dancehall and thus forged a new melee of a sound. Panama is famed for many things, but being the birthplace of reggaeton shockingly isn't one of them. And that's all well and good - but, in reality, this has always been the case for the genre, whose roots stretch across the Caribbean and Latin America.īut how did reggaeton come to rule the radio? Here's how it went from Latinx dance floors to speakers all over globe. Rather, it's allowed reggaeton to become known as an attractive, fun, inclusive mishmash of languages and cultures. One which sees the Internet gently eroding the "world music" category so that multicultural collaborations are no longer reserved for cheesy FIFA World Cup anthems. This cultural exchange is emblematic of a new large-scale intermingling of the worldwide music industry.
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