How was reggaeton created5/29/2023 ![]() The strong connection between Panama and Jamaica lived on and in the early eighties, El General, a dude in a white military suit, with tassles of his shoulders and shades, was the first Panamanian Reggae star to gain international recognition. These Canal workers were also the first to bring the sounds of Jamaica to the Spanish speaking Americas, planting the seeds of the first Reggae in Spanish. ![]() If your feeling poetic, you could call Reggeaton a homage to the first Jamaicans who were taken to Panama in the early 1900s to build the Canal, and paid the price in blood and tears. ![]() Reggaeton – the new Latin fusion of Jamaican Dancehall and Ragga, with heavy rap influences and spiced with every other Caribbean rhythm under the sun (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Reggae, Bomba) - is making too much noise across America to ignore. Their parents and grandparents came to the land of dreams and cleaned offices for white middle class America, while their music vanished into specialist collections or was processed into jingles for Sex and The City. America’s most important venue is about to stage the biggest ever concert of a rhythm that came from nowhere, invented by young DJs for their young audiences in the heart of the Caribbean, thousands of miles away. The dark, proud and irreverent faces of 40,000 young Nuyoricans, Dominicans, and African-Americans savour the moment. The “Megatón” Festival is sold out and heaving.
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