Reggaeton dances to a new beat, as lilt of dembow gives way to thump of EDM
Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico's stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay. "That was my childhood," confesses Farruko of the 1990s techno-pop sound that colored his latest studio album, "La 167," and its breakthrough hit, the high-energy Latin house jam "Pepas." "Pepas" has topped Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart for ...
by Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times
Oct 15, 2021
3 minutes
Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico's stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay.
"That was my childhood," confesses Farruko of the 1990s techno-pop sound that colored his latest studio album, "La 167," and its breakthrough hit, the high-energy Latin house jam "Pepas."
"Pepas" has topped Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart for seven weeks, and has remained affixed in the top 10 of the Spotify Global 50 chart. Dutch DJ
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