New York reggaeton is mostly in night clubs, theaters, arenas and stadiums. But the uptown sound is also the soundtrack of the streets in cars, bodegas and restaurants. That’s where it lives in the Latin world.
Urban artists are flowing between house, rap, reggaeton, and trap. It’s getting harder to draw lines between styles. The Dembow is strong in Dominican neighborhoods, and it is growing.
The reggaeton dance is perreo, but guys are getting down too. Guys dance with guys in a beautiful barrio brotherhood.
The street can be hard, but it can be soft too. You make the place. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
New York Reggaeton Music
Ozuna Joins the MegaBash Urban Music Festival at Prudential Center
PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
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Alex Sensation Hosts MegaBash the Latin rap, Trap, Reggaeton, Dem bow, and Merengue Festival at Prudential Center
PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
LA MEGA 97.9FM 🇨🇴
Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture
New York’s big spring film festival stretches genre boundaries with great Latin films, TV, audio storytelling, talks, games, immersive, and music.
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MULTIPLE VENUES
June 7-18, 2023
Anuel AA is Real Hasta La Muerte
One of the Papi’s of Latin trap just keeps getting bigger. “Brrr”
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Chelsea, NYC
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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Loisaida Festival 2023 Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City
Alphabet City starts summer with a family street party.
AVENUE C
Loisaida, East Village/Lower East Side
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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152nd Street Festival 2023 is Basically a Bronx Fiesta Patronales or Taíno Areíto
A Puerto Rican family street fair of live music, dancing, food, artisanal crafts, and activities for little Boricuas. There will be bomba and plena for sure!
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LONGWOOD, THE BRONX
Memorial Day Weekend: Saturday, May 27, 2023
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J Balvin Sings Reggaeton at Barclays Center
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
BARCLAYS CENTER
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
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Happy Birthday Maluma!
Saturday, January 28, 2023
MEDELLÍN, Colombia 🇨🇴
Aloha Boricua is a Puerto Rican Musical About the Migration to Hawaii
Thursday-Sunday, December 1-18, 2022
PREGONES/PRTT
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Daddy Yankee La Ultima Vuelta World Tour Brings Latin Trap & Reggaeton to Prudential Center
Thursday, December 8, 2022
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
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Mega Bash 2022 Alex Sensation, Maluma, Nicky Jam & More Reggaeton and Latin Trap at Prudential Center
Friday, December 2, 2022
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
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Nicky Jam Joins the Mega Bash Reggaeton and Latin Trap Concert at Prudential Center
Friday, December 2, 2022
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
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Bad Bunny : World’s Hottest Tour of Latin Trap & Reggaeton Plays Yankee Stadium
Saturday-Sunday, August 27-28, 2022
YANKEE STADIUM
Concourse, The Bronx
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Midtown Dance 2022 Free Dance Lessons and Dancing Outdoors
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Afro Fusion 🌍
GREELEY SQUARE PARK
Near Herald Square
May 19 – September 1, 2022
Afro, Bachata, Joropo, Salsa, Swing
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Afro-Latino Festival NYC 2022
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
ONLINE
Thursday, June 30, 2022
RESTORATION PLAZA
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
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NYC Dance Week is 10 Days of Free Dance, Fitness & Wellness Classes
Thu, June 9 – Sat, June 18, 2022
ALL OVER NYC
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Farruko Sings Latin Trap & Reggaeton at Prudential Center
Friday, February 18, 2022
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
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Reggaeton Party At Home with #1 Latin DJ Lobo on SummerStage Anywhere
Thursday, July 16, 2020, 8-10pm
SUMMERSTAGE ANYWHERE
YouTube, Facebook & Twitch
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Vico C does Instagram Live
Monday, March 23, 2020
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El Filósofo del Rap gives a virtual concert on Instagram to keep spirits up during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Cardi B is Gettin Real
March 14, 2020
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Brooklyn DJ iMarkkeyz remixes Cardi B’s Instagram rant. It’s charting and they are donating proceeds to CoronaVirus victims.
MegaBash 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
NEWARK, New Jersey ~ La Mega 97.9FM brings the stars of reggaeton and latin trap: Alex Sensation, Ozuna, Farruko, Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce, REIK, V Manuelle, Becky G, Jhay Cortez, Ivy Queen, Lunay and Chimbala to Prudential Center
Soulfrito 2019
Friday, August 30, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ Rap, Reggaeton and Latin Trap featuring Ozuna, A Boogie, Farruko, Gunna, Jeremih, Arcangel, El Alfi, Duki, over 20 artists at Barclays Center
Luis Fonsi
I don’t know why he’s asking. I always get blamed.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018
Wisin y Yandel
Madison Square Garden
Chelsea, Manhattan
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Reggaeton Classics
These are some important songs in the development of reggaeton.
Tu Pum Pum
La Recta Final
Brooklyn-born Vico C was making mixtapes in the caserios (public housing) of Barrio Puerta Tierra in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “La Recta Final” (1994) was his first chart. You can hear the New York hip-hop influence. 🇵🇷
Tamo en Nota
Tamo en Nota’s dembow is rocking Barrio Capotillo, Santo Domingo. We first heard it there on the street the day before this video dropped. 🇩🇴
Reggaeton Origins
Reggaeton’s story begins with Jamaican reggae and dancehall. 🇯🇲
The Jamaicans who finished the Panama Canal brought their music with them. Bus drivers hired Jamaicans to sing reggae “pregones” (advertising songs). Panamanians brought them to New York City. 🇵🇦
DJ El General (“Tu Pum Pum”) noticed that fans got more excited when he sang in Spanish than in Jamaican patois, so he began singing reggae en Español. 🗽
New York Puerto Rican Vico C brought reggae en Español to Puerto Rico where mixtape culture developed in the caserios (public housing) of San Juan. 🇵🇷
Reggaeton jumped to Medellín, Colombia and went worldwide. 🇨🇴
Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee coined the term “Reggaeton.” His 2004 global hit “Gasolina” introduced reggaeton to the world. 🇵🇷
Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” got the entire world singing in Spanish in 2017. 🇵🇷
Reggaeton is now the global sound of today’s youth. Kids everywhere listen and dance to it. It keeps growing and changing.