ANGEL CANALES EN VIVO - LEJOS DE TI

No your not watching a deleted scene from Carlito's Way. This is what Raggaeton should be. A music that needed to be made to speak for a generation of children forgotten. In the 70's second and third generation Puerto Rican Americans needed to hear themselves on the radio. Not the old music their parents listen to when they used to be on the hot plantations back on the island or the music that the young black kids their age were making. Not because they couldn't relate to it or listened to it but they needed their own voice. So Salsa, a music made by these kids, came about. Like rap, for a long time people didn't respect it and refused to call it by its name. Older folks like Tito Puente worked so hard to be accepted in the Jazz world as a musician not a Latin musician but just a musician that they didn't want to hear what the kids had to say because it wasn't respect their struggle. SOUND FAMILAR?

But now take this guy Angel Canales who is a kid raised in the ghettos of america and noone ever gave him a voice. He makes a song 'that to this day is a Puerto Rican Anthem' about how he feels about the island as a kid from America and people all over Latin America knows word for word.
"PUERTO RICO I WILL NEVER STOP CALLING FOR YOU"