Illustration: Mayo Bous Reparto, the last cry of Cuban popular music
It was a matter of time before an autochthonous expression derived from reggaeton was born in our country, and then the cast arrived. The baptism, at least the one to which we were all invited, was Bajanda, the catchy song by Chocolate MC; and since then the cast has only grown and grown to become the omnipresent soundtrack of Cuban neighborhoods.
From the origin, present and possible paths of this genre? we talked in the fourth episode of AM:PM Cassettes, in which Rafa G. Escalona talks with the musicologists Leannelis Cárdenas and Lalau Yllaramendiz, and the journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo, all regular contributors to the magazine. Along the way, several names come out like Wampi, El Negrito & El Kokito & Manu Manu, Wildey, El Único, whose sonorities spice up this installment.