Andrea Gonzalez Ramirez

Salsa was invented between Puerto Rico and New York.

There's two main areas where he performs.

In the main stage, he kind of recreated rural Puerto Rico.

And then the second stage is a pink casita that resembles a lot of homes in Puerto Rico.

And that's where, like, the really filthy perreo happens.

Like, that area is reserved for the songs that you would probably not play to your parents because they're so, so filthy.

Yeah.

I was pretty high up.

I was in the last, literally the very last row of the top section.

Closer to God than Bad Bunny, but you can see everything.

And yeah, like it's really incredible because like a lot of people are wearing traditional clothing like pavas or jibara dresses.

I was wearing a Roberto Clemente jersey and then

When the music starts, like, basically you get a musical arrangement of his newest song, Alambre Púa.

That sounds a lot like bomba and plena, which are two traditional Oregon music genres.

And then he comes in with a bunch of like dancers in traditional garbs.

And it just, you know, everyone went a little bit crazy when he was on stage.

But it really looks like you are dancing.

transported back in time to a Puerto Rico from 100 years ago, but also kind of like what a school performance would look if you celebrated Puerto Rican week, like La Semana de la Puerto Ricanida at school, right?

It was insane.

I cried, I danced, I laughed.