And, apparently, nobody else here was programming the #1 station in Puerto Rico back when reggaetón began on the Island while consulting the stations of Pedro Solís Villaláz in Panamá where the phenomenon began.
Think it started out with the people listening to it spelling it that way, and it eventually became some sort of common misspelling. Univisión made the mistake too, when they first launched the Hurban format on 99.1 KFZO Dallas, branded as "99.1, Regueton y Mas" back in 2004.
No, it was never called that in the late 80's in Panamá where I was program consultant for several groups of stations, covering David, Panamá City / Colón and "Provincias Centrales" (centered in Chitré).
It is called "reggaetón" in essentially every other situation I have seen; deviations tend to be attributable to bad spelling and not convention. The Real Academia in Spain is about as far from the use and origins of the word as I can imagine.
That article says that reggaetón "may have developed in Puerto Rico. Wrong. It reached Puerto Rico when songs by several Panameño artists were heard there.
The origins are almost certainly Panameños, with El General being the guy whose songs managed to make it into the Caribbean to Puerto Rico and areas of coastal Central America like San Pedro Sula and Puerto Barrios and the pirate stations in Belize (I was consulting stations in San Pedro at the time and heard it happen).
Posting the same link twice does not enhance its accuracy. And an error and supposition-filled newspaper article is not what anyone would consider "scholarly".
Which was, at my insistence, eventually corrected. The program person charge of the format (not my choice) was not fully bilingual and had no experience with Caribbean peoples or music or culture.
There actually is Spanish reggae, from groups like Cultura Profética and Gomba Jahbari. But it is not a mainstream genre and the rare times it is played, it is in AC formats in Puerto Rico. It is mostly associated with beach parties, the Puerto Rican independence movement, and, of course, massive consumption of cannabis.
You are right. My bad.
I over generalized and forgot to take into account the existence of Spanish language reggae. This is sort of like the thing we used to see at the sidewalk bars in Condado and Isla Verde where an imported steelband group would sing "Island Songs" in kinda' broken Spanish.Maybe they should cover more classic salsa songs...You are right. My bad.
Except in the University of Puerto Rico (especially the main Río Piedras campus), where independence supporters make up a vocal sector and often get the school shut down for strikes.
In my first couple of months at WUNO in 1970, I went with the news staff to cover the riots at Río Piedras and we parked in the lot of the Burger King to submit reports live. The demonstration was huge, and it turned into a riot.
As the creator of Z-93 and the only non-musician honorary member of the Fania All Stars besides Masucci himself, that hurts my ears!
Yeah, not like somebody else mentioned Sean Paul a few comments up....
DJ Laz is back? I guess they did read this thread. Bravo. Now I have to check it out myself when I can. What time was he on? And is he just on that one time for kicks, or are they going to pay him to be on-air every week? I don't see him on the website lineup, which is a bit confusing to navigate.
And the monthly released today pre-dated the flip.
He’s on Pitbull’s Globalization Channel 13 on SiriusXM Saturdays at 10 am. Not Power 96.
