Travel and Arts journalist, Eve Hyman, writes about emerging South American artists from her hub in old Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Straight out of Rio, Deize Tigrona brings the intensity, power, and beauty you’d expect from a Brazilian lady emcee with her own raw signature style crafted in the hood and delivered via her Berlin record label.

With limited hip hop potential in a scene dominated by reggaeton and cumbia, Argentinian hip hop don Dante gets his by being dynamic in the face of adversity.

Tremor researches folklore traditions by region and bridges generations, geography and genre to produce his signature style. His sound is equal parts electronic music and native drum and owes as much to anthropology as it does to popular music.

New York City runs wild with reggaeton, has bachata coming at it from all Dominican directions, and is good with the Mexican pop honeys and home-grown Latin electronica hybrids. But when South American urban artists come through it’s a happening. And those have been happening with more frequency.

The king of Argentinian urban music [...]