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The African Diaspora Takes the Main Stage at Coachella 2019

In 1998, my dad, a Cameroonian native, used to listen to Afrobeat cassettes sent from back home. The sounds never made it past our Southern California garage. In 1994, Daddy Yankee coined the term “Reggaeton” on a project with Puerto Rican DJ, Playero. The sound wouldn’t officially touch down in the US until 2004 when …

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Source: OC Weekly

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