[1/5] Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo records a song as he takes on Peru's music scene with a new genre that resembles South Korean pop music but with songs in Quechua, the language of the Incas, in Lima, Peru August 17, 2023.
REUTERS/Angela Ponce Acquire Licensing RightsLIMA, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Lenin Tamayo, named after the leader of the Russian Revolution, is taking on Peru's music scene with a new genre that resembles South Korean pop music but with songs in Quechua, the language of the Incas.
Instead, he is striving to tackle discrimination through music and bring attention to the importance of the South American country's ancestral past.
"My music had to embrace my origins strongly," the singer told Reuters ahead of a concert in Lima's northern district.
It was at school that Tamayo first began listening to Korean pop music, known as K-pop, which started gaining an international folloawing around a decade ago through supergroup BTS.
Persons:
Lenin Tamayo, Angela Ponce, Tamayo, Tok, Kay Pacha, Uku Pacha, Hanan Pacha, Gabriel Castro, Gloria Lopez, Lucinda Elliott, Sandra Maler
Organizations:
Incas, REUTERS, Rights, BTS, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Peruvian, Lima , Peru, Russian, Incas, Lima, Lima's, South America, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Korean