“ When reggaeton arrived, it gave me the opportunity to put our street lyrics into a more commercial format, and to give dance music some currency, some meaning.”Īccording to the group’s official biography, Gente de Zona started back in 2000, when Delgado was trying to bring various Alamar rappers together to make music. “In the beginning I was going to all the rap shows and I started sampling, but I wanted to do it in a different way,” Delgado recalls. The speaker is Gente de Zona’s founder and chief songwriter, Alexander Delgado (“ Ale“), who wants you to know he is perfectly comfortable with his group’s popularity and its status as a leading exponent of the highly danceable music known as “ Cubaton“.ĭelgado, 27, grew up in Alamar, the Havana neighborhood most closely associated with Cuban hip-hop and home to the annual Alamar Rap Festival.
This business-like description doesn’t come from the marketing director of a large record company. It’s primarily a reggaeton group that has used this music’s popularity to reach young Cubans.” “ Gente de Zona is a trio that makes the most out of being here in Cuba.
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