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El Cata
Edward E. Bello Pou, popularly recognized as El Cata, is a Dominican urban
artist renowned for pioneering the electro-mambow genre—an infectious blend of
merengue and hip-hop. Born on September 15, 1977, in Barahona, Dominican
Republic, he moved from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico at age 5, and then
to Miami, Florida. After relocating to New York, he studied music at the Bronx
Community College in New York while also juggling a series of odd jobs to make
ends meet. Returning to the Dominican Republic after two decades in the United
States, El Cata made his official debut i...
