Skateboarding is what opened up music to me in a broader span, like watching the Zero video, Circa, Foundation, and Emerica. A lot of times, the songs really don’t talk about much, but it’s just the noise that it creates. It’s just the way the song sounds along with the beat. I don’t know what it is exactly, but it’s just the noise. It depends on the frequency the song creates.
I’ll go as deep as to listening to Coheed and Cambria to Fleetwood Mac, Eminem, Mariah Carey, Mod Sun, Bad Bunny, it all varies. Whatever is nostalgic from my childhood so it honestly varies. I’ve just always been into whatever makes me happy. Where would you say your taste in music developed? Coming from Puerto Rico and growing up in Massachusetts, how has your taste in music changed? Who would you pick right now for Dew Tour weekend? So when I fine-tune it and find what I want, find that inner happiness, then I just keep that plugged in, pretty much. I just like to create a certain type of energy around the song and the vibrations of my thought process. I’ll pretty much play the same song the whole week and weekend on repeat. It depends leading up to the contest what song I’m really into, and usually, I’ll listen to it on repeat. You could take me out of Puerto Rico, but you can’t take Puerto Rico out of me.ĭo you listen to any specific types of music when competing?
They say you can take me out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of me. Not only Puerto Ricans but all Latin skaters or people that we meet. We feel like we’re with our friends back home, and we created our own little family here within the Spanish community. We feel at home when we listen to that, and we love the vibe that the music puts out. It’s very important to keep our cultural music playing throughout the week or even daily. How important is it to you to keep in touch with Latin music? So it’s pretty cool he’s our voice for the world. Most of us are Puerto Rican, and we love his music, and he’s just another one of us. We’re pretty proud, especially in this house. Worldstar posted something about him being the most iconic Latin pop star of this time. He’s the most wanted and sought after Spanish artist when it comes to pop. Latin Trap, that’s a new wave that’s pretty popular right now.
It just depends on the mood we’re trying to create at the moment. When we skate in the backyard, we’ll listen to like Bad Bunny, and a lot of the current Puerto Rican pop artists Latin Trap is what they like to call it. When we’re working out, we’ll try to listen to more motivating music, like dance, techno, or electronic. When we make breakfast, we’ll listen to Spanish, Puerto Rican, or Cuban-style music, and that’s our morning jam. Recently we’ve been listening to a lot of Ashanti, Cam’ron, Fabolous.
So it just really depends on who’s DJing and what mood I’m in. I haven’t been able to figure out what it is about certain songs, but I go from listening to Bad Bunny, MGK (Machine Gun Kelly), J. For the most part, any music with a good rhythm and frequency. My favorite type of music to listen to honestly varies on where I am in my life or what mood I’m in. What type of music do you like listening to? We called up Manny to learn more about Manny’s taste in music, its connection to Latin culture, and the vibrations he feels through music that empowers moods. For Manny Santiago, music touches on these bases with sounds that intrinsically find their way into his life. It can connect and unite people, as well as allow you to tap into a different state of mind. Music is an incredibly powerful force that can transport you to particular times and places in life.