'masflowchi showcases this liberatory music with a three-day bill that includes Puerto Rican veterans IvyQueenDiva and TEGOCALDERON and upstart Chicago DJ karennoid.' | Nancy Sánchez Tamayo
The story of reggaeton is culture. It’s a story of resistance, diaspora, and people who live in spaces deemed “hood” or “ghetto.” It’s become the voice that everyone hears. This narrative began more than 100 years ago with the immigration of Jamaican and other Afro-Caribbean people to work on the Panama Canal. The music of this population—reggae, calypso, soca—was translated into reggae en español and dancehall in Panama in the late 70s.
The music made its way to New York via Panamanian artist El General in 1985. At the same time, hip-hop was happening, and Puerto Rican people were very much part of it. Puerto Ricans routinely traveled between New York and the island, and this migration allowed the music to fly its way to Puerto Rico, where it evolved into “underground”—which we now know as reggaeton. Without those moments of exchange and migration, we wouldn’t have reggaeton.
Also performing on Friday is Mariah Angeliq, a Puerto Rican and Cuban reggaetonera from Miami whose songs empower us to feel like sexy women, regardless of our gender. That same day, the Puerto Rican twins in the duo Nina Sky will give us the throwbacks we want to hear, especially 2004’s “Oye Mi Canto,” an anthem that celebrates Latinidad in the best way—through sound and dance.
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