“Champette Is Part of Our Identity and Ancestrality”: Charles King

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To recognize African roots, accentuate their rhythms and imbue them with the sound of the Caribbean, that was the recipe from which emerged one of the most innovative musical genres around this region, the champeta. The peripheries of Cartagena saw birth and grow to this sound that for many years was excluded and denigrated by the music industry and the city society.