Boogát

Boogát is a second generation Latin-American immigrant musician born in Quebec City, Quebec, with roots in Mexico and Paraguay. His style blends hip hop with Latin music styles such as cumbia, salsa, danzón and reggaeton. He won the 2024 GAMIQ Award for Sono Mondiale Album of the Year for his album Del Horizonte, the same award in 2014 for El Dorado Sunset, a Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year for his album Neo-Reconquista at the Juno Awards of 2016 and the ADISQ Awards for World Music Album of 2016. In 2013 he won two Prix Félix Awards for El Dorado Sunset, one for World Music album of ADISQ 2013 and another one for Best Production of 2013. Boogát was raised in the south part of Beauport, nicknamed Beauport Beach. He moved to Montreal in 2001 where his career took off, producing for other artists and touring in a dozen of countries. In 2015 he stayed in CDMX for a year to work with producer Andrés Oddone. Moving back to Canada in 2016, he established himself in the village of Eastman, Québec; in the heart of the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border where he co-opened a creative space called La Mésanine. Performing initially in French, Boogát switched to Spanish after...

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