This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month.Read more here.
LosPetitFellas embody the exuberant collision of styles that defines the current wave of Colombian rap.
Then we ventured into the blues, which led us to rock & roll.
Misael Correa*
Funk allowed us to become experimental, and jazz was present in the harmonies and arrangements.
When I was little, my dad was always playing salsa records around the house.
Colombian rap blossomed between the mid- and late-Nineties, with outfits such as La Etnnia and Gotas de Rap.
Rap represents a really important moment in our story.
Mainstays like AlcolirykoZ continue to shape the scene today.
Colombian rap is much broader, explains Santiago Cembrano, author of the bookLa Epoca del Rap de Aca.
It provides a brilliant way to reflect about our national identity, what beingcolombianoreally means.
The disparate elements that bring us together are reflected in the sound, themes and use of slang.
All of them are building a multiverse that Goyo says shes especially proud of.
There are so many kinds of expressions.
Rap has so much soul in it, he says.
Our music transmits the desire to belong in this bigbarriothat we call Latin America.
The key is remaining true to ourselves.
