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"El Compa Negro" sways onstage, serenading his audience.
["465.6"]Te metiste - Ariel Camacho (Letra) - YouTube | te metiste lyricsWomen in heels and abbreviate dresses authority abutting to men cutting cowboy hats and belt buckles beyond than iPhones, affective to the norteño song as if it were accounting abnormally for them.
"Ay mi yaquesita, tú tienes un cuerpo hermoso que parece sirenita."
You accept a body, El Compa sings, admirable like a mermaid's.
If anyone's actualization in the San Bernardino bistro ability be added abnormal than a mermaid's, it is the man captivation court: Rhyan Lowery, a.k.a. El Compa Negro; a.k.a. the atramentous associate (a.k.a. the abandoned atramentous man in sight).
And in case anyone hasn't noticed that fact, the 19-year-old's administrator is there to point it out, several times, like a carnival barker: "El anthology afro americano de la música mexicana."
The aboriginal African American in Mexican music.
"We're affairs a concept," says Antonio Lopez, administrator and advancement accompanist for the Compton teenager. "We're affairs the adorableness of addition from addition chase that is accomplishing things and accomplishing them actual able-bodied in a bazaar that's not his."
Outside the club, Danny Ramirez, 23, poses for a quick photo with El Compa, acquainted him from YouTube videos.
"Un moreno cantando corridos … I like that," he says, application the Spanish chat for a dark-skinned or atramentous person. "He's apery the Mexican community. Nobody would apprehend a atramentous being singing corridos."
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Young atramentous artists apparently aren't activity to alpha sampling bounded Mexican music, let abandoned accomplish a career out of it. And white kids in the suburbs apparently won't be bobbing their active to Los Tigres del Norte.
But Lowery's transformation into El Compa Negro says article about the ability of cultural adjacency — and Los Angeles' alteration demographics.
["465.6"]Te Metiste ||Letra|| Ariel Camacho - YouTube | te metiste lyricsLowery was built-in in Compton in 1996, aloof a few years removed from the city's heyday as a birthplace of gangsta rap, the accumulation N.W.A and its seminal album, "Straight Outta Compton."
But the boyhood was baptized into a burghal that was fast acceptable beneath atramentous and added Latino. In 1980, the atramentous citizenry stood at 73.9%, compared with 21.1% Latino, according to abstracts from the Minnesota Citizenry Center, National Historical Geographic Information System and the American Association Survey. In 1990, the gap began to close, with a atramentous citizenry of 52.7% and 43.7% Latino.
"When N.W.A puts Compton on the map, in agreement of gangsta rap, they're in the affliction of demographic change," said Albert Camarillo, a Stanford assistant alive on a book about Compton. "Even the communities those adolescent atramentous kids were a allotment of, they were alpha to change by that time."
By 2000, Latinos had overtaken the atramentous population, 56.8% to 39.9%. As of 2013, it was 67.3% to 29.4%.
Compton's alteration demographics mirror a beyond about-face throughout the state, with Latinos now the better indigenous accumulation in California, according to U.S. Census Bureau abstracts appear in June.
In the adjacency area Lowery grew up, abreast Rosecrans and Santa Fe, best of his accompany were Mexican American. Lowery said he bound best up the argot of Mexican Spanish. Although he says he isn't fluent, he can authority his own in conversations with accompany — expertly rolling his r's and switching amid Spanish and English.
When he doesn't admit a Spanish word, he's quick to ask Lopez or a bandmate what it means, never absent to sing a song he doesn't absolutely understand.
It's abundant to abash some fans, who assert that he charge be from Mexico.
"No tengo aught de sangre de Mexico. Soy afro americano," Lowery will say, answer he isn't Latino. Still, they'll argue.
"I booty off my hat and I'm like, 'Look at my beard — I'm African American!'"
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Every weekend, Lowery and his band, Los Mas Poderosos, appointment restaurants, nightclubs and places that baby to Mexican immigrants and second-generation Mexican Americans, assuming cumbias and corridos that abounding of the club-goers grew up hearing.
["465.6"]112 best Spanish Music, Videos, | te metiste lyricsHe's developed acclimatized to the rituals of anniversary place, watching with added men as women are trotted out to participate in adult leg contests — dancing for money and abundant acclaim to win the admirable award-winning — and accepting to ball with adolescent Latinas aback he isn't onstage.
Lowery has gotten his allotment of attention: He's been the accountable of several stories, took third abode in the Spanish-language affairs "Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento" — I Accept Talent, Lots of Aptitude — and has been featured on Univision and Telemundo.
"He sings beautifully. Better than bodies aback home," says Margarita Vaal, a Rialto citizen who watched the jailbait accomplish at a Mariscos restaurant area she and a acquaintance breach a brazier of Coronas.
Vaal, originally from Sinaloa, laments that he didn't booty aboriginal abode on the Spanish aptitude show.
"He has Mexican blood," she says.
When Lowery performs, he sounds about chatty but is accurate to stick to the songs on his set list, the ones he's memorized afterwards years of practice. Aback the army requests songs, he switches to the drums, acceptance Lopez to footfall in and booty over, calmly account Spanish lyrics on YouTube.
"He needs to apprentice added Spanish," says Laura Arredondo, a Riverside citizen who watched Lowery at the restaurant. "But he's OK."
Her mother, Maria Lopez, originally from Zacatecas, has kinder words for El Compa:
"It makes me blessed to see addition from addition chase captivated up in our Mexican culture."
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Latinos' growing numbers accept shaped arts, food, music and ability throughout the state. Swept up in the cultural river in his Compton neighborhood, by 13 Lowery had already developed an absorption in reggaeton.
When he confused to Perris in Riverside County in 2009, he aboriginal heard the corridos that he now specializes in — earning him his appellation from a aerial academy friend.
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"I anticipate added Latinos are activity to appearance what you alarm the boilerplate of American culture," says Eric Avila, a assistant of history, Chicano studies and burghal planning at UCLA. "You could attending at Compa Negro as an archetype of that."
Although Lowery has attenuated two cultures, to the abruptness of abounding who watch him perform, some accept absolved him as annihilation added than a change act. Lopez has heard criticism from added performers who accept Lowery has no abode in Mexican music and has had club owners who don't booty the bandage seriously.
It's a criticism Lowery additionally heard from schoolmates growing up.
"They were like, 'Why would you go afterwards article like that? You're not Mexican,'" Lowery says. "That's the accomplished acumen why I'm accomplishing it. I'm not Mexican, and I appetite to appearance the apple that music is universal."
Although Lowery acknowledges the "wow" agency that comes with his ethnicity, he says he stays accurate to the agreeable brand he's selected. He rides horses, knows how to accession roosters, goes to jaripeos — Mexican rodeos — and can comedy the accordion.
When he becomes added famous, he says, his ambition is to own a agronomical with 20 horses.
For now, Lowery lives with his ancestor in Moreno Valley — absent of one day accepting a song on the radio and assuming a sold-out show. And aback times get tough, the music helps him through.
"Te metiste completamente en mi vida. No hay un momento que no este pensando en ti," he says, commendation Ariel Camacho's song "Te Metiste." "You're a allotment of my activity completely. There isn't a moment I'm not cerebration of you."
He's accepting problems with his babe now, he says, and Camacho's song is the best way to acquaint her how he feels.
After years singing in addition language, it's Spanish that best conveys his heartbreak.
brittny.mejia@latimes.com
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Times agents biographer Sandra Poindexter contributed to this report.
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