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Cristopolis A. Dieguez was born in Arlington, VA to a mother
of Guatemalan and a father of Chilean origins. This is a unique
combination of the Americas in the sense that he was born
and raised in North America while his mother is from Central
America and his father from South America. He has traveled
extensively through Latin America and finished his last 2
years of high school in Santiago, Chile before returning to
the DC metropolitan area to complete his BA's in Philosophy
and French from George Mason University. Completing high school
in Santiago was an amazing experience for Cristopolis in the
sense that it opened a whole new world to him and brought
him in contact with his roots (he was expelled from high school
in VA due to gang activity). Leaving to his fathers' homeland
in order to finish school placed him in a unique setting in
which he concentrated his musical restlessness into developing
rhymes in Spanish by continuously writing and free styling.
The Hip Hop movement has since developed in Chile far and
beyond any other country in South America and has placed Chile
along with Spain and Puerto Rico as the powerhouses of the
Spanish language Hip Hop market.
Treating both his flow in English and Spanish with equal importance,
in recording his first album "Metamorphosis", Cristopolis
set out to make his debut in English by using refreshingly
forceful ideas and insight combined with sheer flow, word
play and musical creativity. After the independent release
of his first album he left to France where he recorded over
20 songs with Paris based group Le Chant Du Crime, this work
is for an album tentatively entitled "Nouveau Monde"
(The New World) which they plan on completing after the release
of Cristopolis' sophomore album. The second album is a project
completely in Spanish entitled "Fuerza De Voluntad"
(The Power of Will) which is scheduled to be released Winter
2003.
In the process of recording "Hip Hop International"
a unique song conceived by Cristopolis in which there are
5 different emcees each flowing in a different language for
a total of 6 languages in one song (Cristopolis flows in English
and Spanish); Cristopolis met Japanese rapper and MCA recording
artist MC Nique and apart from recording "Hip Hop International"
for his sophomore effort they recorded a track entitled "29
Connection" for MC Nique's debut album.
A music industry fact, which Cristopolis and his team are
very aware of is that the four largest Hip Hop markets are
respectively the United States (English speaking market),
France (Francophone Market), Japan and Spain (Spanish speaking
market). With this in mind they have set out to make there
mark in each market due to the realization that the ever changing
world is everyday becoming much smaller and that an attitude
of worldliness is truly necessary in order to triumph and
make more than just music, it is necessary in order to make
music history.
Listen to Latino Anthem
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