Q-Pop: Peru’s social media phenomenon Lenin Tamayo fuses Quechua and K-pop

What occurs when you take Quechua, one of the most extensively talked Indigenous language in the Americas, and fuse it with K-pop, the international music experience with origins in South Korea?

Ask Lenin Tamayo, that has actually come to be a social media phenomenon with “Q-pop” and launched his very first electronic cd today.

Tamayo matured paying attention to his mommy, a Peruvian individual musician that sings in Spanish and Quechua, a language shared by 10 million audio speakers in nations consisting of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia,Argentina and Chile As a teen, K-pop became his enthusiasm and aided him locate a team of similar women schoolmates that aided deal with the intimidation he states he dealt with at institution for his Indigenous looks.

Now himself an artist, the 23-year-old Tamayo …