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Erik Palacios Indie/Folk- I will contribute information about Latin artists in the genre of indie and folk.

Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade is an Mexican born singer who has made a significant impact in the Mexican music industry. Daughter of U.N.A.M. professor Gaston Lafourcade Valdenegro and pianist Maria Del Carmen Silva Contrerasm, Lafourcade has a rich background full of both music and art. Natalia Lafourcade at the age of 10 years, took lessons for flute, dance, painting, theature, piano, guitar, saxophone, and singing lessons for traditional Mexican opera.

Career
Natalia Lafourcade made her debut on February 25, 2003 with her album "Natalia Lafourcade" which features a diverse collection of music in Rock, Pop, and Bossa Nova. The song that elevated her status was called "En el 2000". She was then nominated For a Latin Grammy in the Best New Artist category.

In 2017, she released a album titled "Musas", the album is a homage to the traditional Latin American Folk music that was prevalent in the region of Mexico she grew up in Coatepec Veracruz, Mexico. Musas is a acknowledgement to her fans, whom tend to be younger in age, however are likely to be unfamiliar with traditional Latin American music and older songwriters. It has become important to her to serve as a conduit to that history.

Natalia Lafourcade released her most notable album yet on March 17, 2015 with "Hasta la Raiz" ("To the Root"). The Album has much significance for it contains nothing but original written songs by Natalia herself. Additionally, Lafourcade states "We were talking about the importance of keeping your roots and keeping all the things that build you - your home, your friends, your family, your experiences. I wanted to sing about something that will remind me of Mexico and home"

Natalia Lafourcade continues to make a impact in the music industry by performing the collaborative song "recuerdame" with Miguel in the feature animated film Coco. Additionally performs the legendary song "La Llorona" alongside Adia Cuevas and Angela Augilar at the 61st annual Grammy.

Cuco
Cuco (Omar Banos); California born but with Mexican parents, his release of the album Iwannabewithyou makes waves in the Chicano community in the United States thus adds representation for the hispanic people. By injecting Spanish and English together in songs the Chicano people have a way to really connect to a artist.

In a interview with Telemundo, Cuco expresses the importance to recognizing the roots of oneself and utilizing the fact to create music not only meaningful to himself but also to connect his audience into the same frame of mind. His father is from Mexico City and mother from Puebla, the parents of Cuco have always encouraged him to always be creative, even to provide his first set of equipment to create music.

Cuco has reached over 1,890,000 monthly listeners and his most popular song has reached 37,803,344 listens on the streaming service Spotify.

Felipe Andre Coronel is a Peruvian-American rapper and activist whose lyrics tend to highlight global political issues with some delving also into conspiracies. Technique was born in Lima, thought his family moved to Harlem, New York 2 years after his birth to escape the civil war in their homeland. As a teenager he struggled to “fall in line” and was arrested several times Due to what he says was “childish behavior”.

In 2001, Immortal Technique released his first album Revolutionary Vol. 1 without a record label. Which contained one of his most iconic songs “Dance With The Devil” Which speaks of all the things he went through and witnessed come from the bottom of society.

Some of the charitable work Coronel does is he often visits prisons to speak and try to advise youth, also he works with immigrant rights activists and raises money for hospitals. He has also created grants for high school students. Also in 2008 he worked with a no-profit called Omeid to build an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Jose Moya and i will discuss a contemporary artist

Luis Fonsi released "Despasito" on January 2017 alongside Daddy Yankee which combined traditional parts of Latin American such as the cuarto, a traditional latin guitar used in latin music, ocmbining it with modern genres. this was done by blending the sounds of the Pop World and the Urban world in order to create an Urban-Pop song with musicality. soon after its debut "Despasito" limbed the billboards world-wide and found a home in the American consumers.

Later that year on April "Despasito" has garnered a folling and the attention of many artists one being Justin Beiber who wondered about a remix of the song. this led to another hit on the billboard charts taking the throne as a remix of an already popular song. Nonetheless these songs had created an interest in Latin music and other artists.

In the end of 2017 "Despasito" had won Fonsi four awards at the Latin Grammys including Record of the Year, and the Remix of "Despasito" had been nominated three awards including Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop/Duo Group Performance. in the eyes of Fonsi he sees this as a progress for non-English musicians since the last non-english song to be awarded Record of the Year was italian "Volare" over 60 years ago creating history and opportunities for artists after Fonsi.

Angel Contreras and I will discuss about a latin rapper.

6ix9ine, born name " Daniel Hernandez ", or also known as " Tekashi " is a latino rapper in the American rapping industry. Daniel Hernandez is a rapper that started out from nothing and made a name for himself throughout his career. 6ix9ine grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a poverty like environment where he had economical problems and didn't have enough money. Daniel was kicked out of school at a young age and picked up work on the streets in order to survive day by day.

Although he started making music at a very young age, it wasn't until 2017 where he made a big name for himself. 6ix9ine started to uploads his tracks on Soundcloud and Youtube and hoped for people to like his tracks. One of his tracks, " Gummo " soon gained fame and popularity and went viral. After that sprout, more and more of his tracks went viral and thousands of people were bumping to his songs. Later soon in October of 2017, Tekashi 69 had " Gummo, Kooda , & Keke " on Billboards top !00. From there 69's career changed and he is now known all over the world. He soon later in 2018 released an album " Day 69 " that made it certified platinum.

Even with all the fame behind his back, Daniel always remembered where he came from. He has given his mom her own house and has taken her out of the house where they used to stay in when he was a little kid. He gives back to his community back in Brooklyn where he had it harsh growing up. Daniel is known in his home town for getting out of the " ghetto " and making a name for himself that no one thought he would ever do and overcame all the odds of him being a successful rapper.