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Definition of reggaeton
: popular music of Puerto Rican origin that combines rap with Caribbean rhythms
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Bomba Radio 97.1 kicks it off with a summer festival 8 p.m. Friday featuring salsa artist Victor Manuelle, as well as reggaeton singer Bryant Myers and a new artist named Farina.
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In the mid 1990s, police went into Puerto Rican malls and took reggaeton records.
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Spotify told The Associated Press on Sunday that the Puerto Rican superstar of reggaeton surpassed more than 44 million monthly listeners to reach the first global spot.
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With summer freshly arrived, what better way to celebrate than with one of Baltimore’s most dependable hot times? Enjoy a weekend of Latin food, dance and music (from two stages), with heavy doses of salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia and reggaeton.
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Although Mr. Colón, Mr. Blades and others have persisted with politically aware songwriting, in recent years hip-hop and reggaeton have largely seized the mantle of urban realism.
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Political controversy cast a shadow over this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, but the celebration carried on Sunday under the blazing sun to the tunes of salsa, reggaeton and airhorns.
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The album, mainly in Spanish with some English songs, includes pop, reggaeton, bachata, vallenato and funk sounds.
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Not every pop singer, though, has had to inhabit reggaeton attitudes to be successful.
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Origin and Etymology of reggaeton
American Spanish reggaetón, from reggae reggae + -ton (as in Spanish maratón marathon)
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