Tego Calderon: Reggaeton On Black Pride
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Tego Calderon is one of the top selling Reggaeton musicians.
Reggaeton is the biggest-selling genre of Latin music. Its blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin rhythms has been criticized as simplistic, violent and misogynistic. But the Puerto Rican artist and others use the form to celebrate "blackness," something rarely heard in Latin America.
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