Latin rhythms beat as hot as the summer afternoon as thousands of hip-hop fans came to party Sunday along Philly’s Ben Franklin Parkway with the opening of the Made in America music festival’s second day.
Latin rhythms as hot as summer itself drew about 50,000 hip-hop fans Sunday to Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Parkway for the Made in America music festival’s second and final day.
The festival also showed reach with Nigerian pop star Burna Boy and Snoh Aalegra, the Persian-Swedish singer who delivered a sultry, seductive set of smooth R&B in the early evening hours. Moving about the stage in a bucket hat, he opened his set with words that won over the crowd: “Man, I love Philly!”Pulsating in Sunday’s heat
The urban corrido band included a horn section outfitted in pink-sequined jackets and took the stage to chants from Spanish-speaking fans of “Charismatic lead singer Jesus Ortiz Paz took it from there, leading the band into a high-energy set that used traditional instruments — tuba, upright bass, bajo sexto — to soundtrack a mostly Spanish language street party.
Many gathered in front of the stage cooled themselves with cardboard fans handed out at the gate by Philadelphia reggaeton radio station Rumba 106.1. The act that started it all Sunday was 5′2, the rapper from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, who is named after her height and whose set ended with a “Happy Birthday” singalong for her manager.
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