Making new music from personal history - Rapper pitbull’s genre journey

“Twenty-six years ago, the father of Cuban-American rapper Pitbull commandeered three boats to bring more than 500 people from Castro’s island to Miami, as part of what became known as the Mariel boatlift. The dictator, who normally made emigration impossible, either let the disenchanted leave or found an excuse to expel Cuba’s least-desirable citizens, depending on your point of view. But the influx of nearly 125,000 people to our shores transformed Miami, and thus a key part of America. “Without Mariel, there is no modern Miami,” declares Pitbull, born Armando Christian Perez.”

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