Reggaeton Sensation Tony Dize Electrifies Denver Crowd

Photos by Joe Contreras, Latin Life Denver Media, see gallery below…
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Reggaeton sensation Tony Dize electrified a standing room only crowd at Casselman’s Bar & Venue Saturday night. The show was produced by SJR Media,
Tony Dize Concert Feb. 7, 2015 (7)Skip Reeves Promoter. Mañana Lalito Entertainment & Harmoney Entertainment. LatinLife Denver was the exclusive media sponsor for the event. Elvis Luna of Denver’s own Reggaeton band Los Lunaticos MC’d the show.
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Tony Feliciano Rivera, better known by his stage name Tony Dize, or his other nickname, “La Melodía De La Calle”, is a reggaeton artist born in Boston, Massachusetts of Puerto Rican descent. His first recorded performance was from the album Blin Blin, Vol. 1, with Wisin & Yandel in 2003, after which he collaborated with other artists of the genre and later released his debut album in 2008 titled La Melodía De La Calle (Spanish for “Street Melody”) under WY Records and Machete Music.
Also on ticket were Pauly Ice, MAZKE & Dj Lalito. An impromptu bachata dance contest also helped entertain the crowd between performances.

What is Reggaeton Music?
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According to the Wiki website, Reggaeton (reggaetón, reguetón) is a form of urban music that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton’s predecessor originated in Panama as reggae en español. After the music’s gradual exposure in Puerto Rico, it eventually evolved into a new musical style known as reggaeton [1].
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Reggaeton blends West-Indian music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba, plena, salsa, merengue, latin pop, cumbia and bachata as well as that of hip hop, contemporary R&B, and electronica. However, reggaeton is also combined with rapping or singing in Spanish. The influence of this genre has spread to the wider Latino communities in the United States, as well as the Latin American audience.
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While it takes influences from hip hop and Jamaican dancehall, reggaeton is not the Hispanic or Latino version of either of these genres; reggaeton has its own specific beat and rhythm, whereas Latino hip hop is simply hip hop recorded by artists of Latino descent. The specific rhythm that characterizes reggaeton is referred to as “Dem Bow.”[2][3] The name is a reference to the title of the dancehall song by Shabba Ranks that first popularized the beat in the early 1990s. Reggaeton’s origins represents a hybrid of many different musical genres and influences from various countries in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The genre of reggaeton however is most closely associated with Puerto Rico, as this is where the musical style later popularized and became most famous, and where the vast majority of its current stars originated.

Photos by Joe Contreras,Latin Life Denver Media


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