Do you ever start to like Latin music?

[htown]

I feel sorry for people who don't dance cumbia, bachata, salsa, or merengue.  They're missing out on so much.  And reggaeton, me gusta el perreo con una mami rica!  Of course that's for the younger crowd.


To you guys who say you can't stand norteno/tejano music, listen to a little Duelo, Intocable, or Pesado, I bet you'll like it.  Oh yea and don't forget Kumbia Kings.  And if you ever get a chance to see a woman from Monterrey dance cumbia don't miss it, it truly is a sight to see.


Tomorrow is the Colombian festival in downtown Houston.  I'll be there dancing, drinking, eating and flirting for sure.  It's the closest I'm getting to Colombia for a couple months.

[InnocentVixen]

Yes BG Luis Miguel sings bolero and I love those romantic old songs no matter who sings them, they are lovely, as for Shakira I also prefer when she was 100% herself but she is still in there, you just have to take a really close look, she always was more inclined to rock so when she is singing half naked saying "ay papi" you know she needs money lol, also I find it that her best songs are written in spanish and a couple in english but the translations just sound off for some reason.


My mother's family is from Sinaloa, they are very close, there is many of them and they are loud... grew up locked up in my room in a corner every weekend wishing the banda would just stop!!! haha, I still hate it but I can tolerate it a little, it is one of the few things I can't just block out though, norteño, salsa and cumbia get a very similar reaction out of me.


That being said my taste in music is very eclectic and I am perfectly comfortable without music, my favorite is instrumental so I usually focus on the music and the kind of voice a singer has, I don't care about the language.

[Gavan]

I love latin music, it is pretty much all I listen to: reggaeton (Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Tego Calderon, Wisin y Yandel), Peruvian cumbia (Grupo 5, Hermanos Yaipen ), merengue, bachata, etc. Shakira is nice too, as long as she sings in Spanish.

[benjio]

I love latin music, it is pretty much all I listen to: reggaeton (Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Tego Calderon, Wisin y Yandel), Peruvian cumbia (Grupo 5, Hermanos Yaipen ), merengue, bachata, etc. Shakira is nice too, as long as she sings in Spanish.

Tego Calderon is a very special artist that will unfortunately not be truly appreciated until he is dead and gone. He will be like Bob Marley or Che Guevara. Your grandchildren will wear T-Shirts with his picture on them, but won't really know or understand who he was and what he stood for.
 
I personally prefer Zion and Julio Voltio when it comes to Reggaeton, but they both come from the same roots as Daddy Yankee. Ol' Ramon has just gone a little too mainstream for me at times. He is still however an extremely talented artist that often incorporates aspects of other genres of Latin Music into Reggaeton to appeal to listeners across the entire Spanish Speaking World. If you ever find yourself at party full of Latinos that refuse to dance (almost IMPOSSIBLE), play Ella Me Levanto. I don't care how old they are, they're going to get up. If I could choose one man to hang out with at a disco for a night anywhere in Latin America, it would most definitely be Daddy Yankee. No younger woman, even if they were married, wouldn't go home with him. I'd be happy just to hook up with his leftovers. 
 
Reggaeton is a genre of music where most of the artists don't try to appeal to the commercial market to acheive international stardom. Up until now most have stuck to thier roots (with Winsin and Yandel most definitely being the exception. That song they have now with J-Lo is pure shyt). If you don't like Reggaeton, it probably wasn't ever meant for you to listen to in the first place. Even though he was one of the first to embrace it, the rapper Norega predicted the genre would completely die soon after he recorded Oye Mi Canto with Nina Skyy. It was probably the first song that brought the genre international recognition. It has however managed to survive until today, more than 10 years afterwards. But Reggaeton's popularity in the United States outside of Miami, New York and Houston is pretty much nonexistent.

[Gavan]

Tego Calderon is a very special artist that will unfortunately not be truly appreciated until he is dead and gone. He will be like Bob Marley or Che Guevara. Your grandchildren will wear T-Shirts with his picture on them, but won't really know or understand who he was and what he stood for.
 
I personally prefer Zion and Julio Voltio when it comes to Reggaeton, but they both come from the same roots as Daddy Yankee. Ol' Ramon has just gone a little too mainstream for me at times. He is still however an extremely talented artist that often incorporates aspects of other genres of Latin Music into Reggaeton to appeal to listeners across the entire Spanish Speaking World. If you ever find yourself at party full of Latinos that refuse to dance (almost IMPOSSIBLE), play Ella Me Levanto. I don't care how old they are, they're going to get up. If I could choose one man to hang out with at a disco for a night anywhere in Latin America, it would most definitely be Daddy Yankee. No younger woman, even if they were married, wouldn't go home with him. I'd be happy just to hook up with his leftovers. 
 
Reggaeton is a genre of music where most of the artists don't try to appeal to the commercial market to acheive international stardom. Up until now most have stuck to thier roots (with Winsin and Yandel most definitely being the exception. That song they have now with J-Lo is pure shyt). If you don't like Reggaeton, it probably wasn't ever meant for you to listen to in the first place. Even though he was one of the first to embrace it, the rapper Norega predicted the genre would completely die soon after he recorded Oye Mi Canto with Nina Skyy. It was probably the first song that brought the genre international recognition. It has however managed to survive until today, more than 10 years afterwards. But Reggaeton's popularity in the United States outside of Miami, New York and Houston is pretty much nonexistent.

I like pretty much everything Daddy Yankee does, both his older stuff and his newer "mainstream" songs like La Despedida and Ven Conmigo. I went to his concerts twice when he came to Peru and he is great live too.

Wisin and Yandel's new songs pretty much all suck. The last one I liked from them was Ahora Es back in 2008. I don't really consider them reggaetoneros anymore, but their old stuff was great.

Yeah, most non-latinos don't "get" reggaeton, I don't really know why. i prefer it to things like hip hop or regular pop songs in English myself.

[mambocowboy]

Loved salsa before I ever went to Colombia and that definitely didn't hurt as far as bonding with my then girlfriend now wife and her family