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São Luís, Maranhão (Brazil)

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Northeastern Brazilian capital nicknamed "Brazilian Jamaica," where reggae arrived via Caribbean radio and port trade in the 1970s and took root through wall-of-speaker sound systems called radiolas, leading to Brazil’s first reggae museum in 2018.

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In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

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Story · Well supportedReggae en español: Panama to the world

West Indian canal labourers, Panamanian raggamuffin deejays and a wave of Spanish- and Portuguese-language bands carried Jamaican reggae across Latin America.