Where is reggaeton from originally

It should be pointed out that neither Shabba or El General sang "Reggaeton" as neither the genre nor its title were as yet formed.

Additionally "Dem Bow" was just a single song in Shabba's catalog, with Ranks not singing another significant song using the "Dem Bow" beat. However the influence of the original Bobby Digital beat is undeniable, and modern Reggaeton often still reflects the original instrumentation, as well as the original rhythmic structure.

Rise to popularity The name reggaeton only gained prominence in the mids from the to period , with the Dem Bow beat characterizing the genre; this is in contrast to the more reggae, dancehall and hip hop-derived tracks previously created.

The name was created in Puerto Rico to signify the hybrid sound, and distinguish it from the previous Spanish reggae , created from the years of mixing the different genres. Today, the music flourishes throughout Latin America. The first song which introduced Reggaeton to a big amount of fans is the song "Tra Tra" by Don Chezina. Singers like Don Chezina, O. Many now popular producers, such as the Dominican duo Luny Tunes, Noriega and Eliel, first appeared in the reggaeton scene in This was due to N.

Another important artist that contributed to gain popularity to reggaeton, especially in Europe, is Don Omar, with singles like "Pobre Diabla" and "Dale Don Dale". Don Omar was also able to beat the in-store appearance sales record at Downtown Disney's Virgin music store previously set by pop star Britney Spears , further demonstrating Reggaeton's massive rise to popularity in the United States. Reggaeton beats Reggaeton's most notably unique feature is a driving drum-machine track, which sounds almost identical in virtually all reggaeton songs, and was derived from a popular Jamaican dancehall rhythm.

As stated previously this beat is called "Dem Bow", from the Bobby Dixon-produced Shabba Ranks song of the same title. Many of the sounds found in a typical reggaeton beat are electronically synthesized. Simple melodies may be produced with keyboards, electric guitars, and other electronic instruments.

Other forms of electronic dance music have significantly influenced reggaeton beats, such as techno, house, and genres such as the merengue hip hop also called merenhouse of groups such as Proyecto Uno and Zona 7. Reggaeton beats are highly versatile.

The great variety and flexibility of reggaeton beats can be illustrated by Luny Tunes' CD The Kings of the Beats , which is a collection of purely instrumental beats. Reggaeton beats can be based on merengue, bachata, bolero, and especially hip-hop beats. Reggaeton and hip-hop Reggaeton bears many resemblances to hip-hop. The most notable resemblance to hip-hop is that reggaeton, in most cases, is recited instead of being sung. Another feature is that reggaeton CD's are laid out like hip-hop CD's, including intro's, occasional interludes, and hidden bonus tracks.

Reggaeton also has hooks throughout a song that may include a chorus of singers. Reggaeton artists also adopt pseudonyms comparable to those of hip-hop artists. Overall, reggaeton and hip-hop are both thought of as street-styled music popular among urban youth.

Despite the similarities, reggaeton only roughly fits into the Latin hip-hop category but is not synonymous with hip-hop. True Latin hip-hop has beats that almost exactly resemble mainstream hip-hop beats.

Reggaeton, though, has rap-styled lyrics but has a very different beat that is influenced not by hip-hop, but by reggae , dancehall, merengue and techno. Although reggaeton has been highly influenced by American hip-hop, it has also borrowed features from many other genres as well and is not strictly considered to be Latin hip-hop. Reggaeton and hip-hop are often remixed together, and reggaeton songs and live concerts may feature hip-hop artists such as Lil Jon, 50 Cent, and Eminem.

In other remixes, reggaeton DJs may rap out an English song in Spanish. The duo were born in the Dominican Republic and moved to Massachusetts as teenagers. The strain is a more melodic version of a genre previously characterized by its raunch and street smarts.

Balvin and Mosty have implied that their softer brand of reggaeton can be attributed to fatigue over the violence that rocked Colombia during its civil war with the FARC. As the standard bearer of this new wave, Balvin was pitch perfect: handsome and relentlessly positive, with middle class roots.

He is also a white Latinx and a beneficiary of the well-established Colombian star system that gave birth to icons like Juanes and Shakira. Would you accept us? Over the last decade, a notable diasporic wave of Latinx producers and artists have been incorporating perreo and dancehall as recognizable notes in their complex electronic pastiche. Songs were mined for Spanish language vocals, which were subsequently threaded through cyborg track creations.

Club warlocks like the Mexico City-based N. As often as not, this generation eschews traditional industry traps that had mired previous generations of Latin artists in contract woes and opt to self-distribute through their own labels.

Their beats were one jump-off for a new generation of female vocalists and label bosses who have rejected the traditional hetero-masculinity of reggaeton to center their own narratives and open the door to the inclusion of people who identify as queer.

Argentinian vocalist Ms. A Justin Bieber remix provided no shortage of ham-handed gringo moments, and the track reigned at the no. A wave of photogenic yung reggaeton-Latin trap artists led by Puerto Rican pretty boy Bad Bunny were happy to oblige. Still, some look for signs of progress. Many thanks to reggaeton historians Raquel Z. Even today, we continue to hear Jamaican reggae and dancehall music sampled in modern reggaeton music.

Petra Rivera-Rideau, the author of Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico , finds this a curious phenomenon; but says the erasure of black voices and faces from reggaeton is not unique to the genre.

Canales has firsthand experience with the racial dynamics at play in reggaeton. Canales declined to give details of his incarceration. This can be attributed to a general denial of African heritage in Puerto Rico. According to the latest U. We had a black Miss Universe, a black president, a corporation as big as Disney is casting more black actors.

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