Hollywood dances to a new Latin beat

Hip hop’s influence in Hollywood, which spawned a number of films from House Party in 1990 to the Eminem biopic 8 Mile, is being challenged by an upstart musical genre. Several US production companies are battling to be the first to make a film about the reggae/salsa hybrid known as reggaeton.

The staccato beats and grinding dance moves of reggaeton originated in Panama and Puerto Rico in the early Nineties but have been breaking into mainstream American culture over the past year. The Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee has scored the biggest breakthrough hit, with the infectious ‘Gasolina’

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