Meet the Peruvian indigenous singer inspired by K-pop
Lenin Tamayo is fusing South Korean culture with his Quechua heritage
As a teenager Lenin Tamayo Pinares, now 23, used to fantasise about leading a glamorous life in South Korea. His reality in Peru seemed a world apart. He grew up as an indigenous person in a country with deep-seated racism. His mother, a talented Andean folk musician, often struggled to make ends meet. Although she raised him to take pride in their Quechua culture, he was bullied at school.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Call it Q-pop”
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