The Eminem of Mexican Music is African American: El Compa Negro

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By Voice Media Group/LA Weekly

Rhyan Lowery is a black 19-year-old from Compton who fell in love with Mexican rancheros, a horse-raising culture that dominates the country backwater of Perris, California. where he moved when he was a teen. Now he’s a bilingual Spanish-language TV network phenom who sings corrido at big Latino nightclubs across SoCal and the nation, where second-generation Mexican-Americans are his biggest fans.

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