Nando Boom is a
reggae en Español
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artist from Panamá led by Fernando Brown.
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Nando Boom Biography
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Brown began singing in 1977, and "Nando Boom" started in 1985.
Nando Boom's new and speedy music style has influenced heavily the evolution of Latin music over the past few years as one of the fathers of reggae en Español.
His ''vm grinding'' dance moves have also changed the way people dance since the mid-1990s. This backwards dancing style is now the representative dancing of reggaeton listeners.
His most popular songs are "A Danzar" and "Esa Chica Me Vacila", still one of the main songs played in nightclubs all over Latin America.
For many fans and critics he is considered to be a pioneer of
reggaeton
Reggaeton (, ) is a modern style of popular music, popular and electronic music that originated in Panamanian reggaetón, Panama during the late 1980s, and which rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s through a plethora of Puert ...
and one of the most important figures in reggae en Español.
The band received the Caracol of the Caribbean award from Colombia in 1992 and a Stefano award in Miami in 1994.
Nando Boom has released songs with homophobic lyrics, such as the song "No queremos mariflor". He was then criticized by the
gay community of Panama.
Partial discography
* ''Nando Boom'' (1988)
* ''Spanish Reggae'' (1991)
* ''Nando Boom & the Explotion Band'' (1992)
* ''Greatest Hits'' (1994)
* ''Back to Work'' (1996)
References
External links
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Panamanian reggaeton musicians
Musicians from Panama City
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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