What do you think about the controversy between Nando Boom and Don Omar/Wisin y Yandel?
Santi White, aka Santogold, remembers she was so nervous being the only Black kid in her class that on her first day at school she hid in a corner. She’s not hiding anymore. The 32-year-old Philadelphia native is being hailed as the artist to watch in 2008 by hipsters and mainstream critics, alike. Combining Jamaican reggae with British New Wave and American rock, Santogold is making room on the dance floor for ladies who are sexy – because they’re smart. As she puts it: “it’s not about being naked.” A graduate of Wesleyan University and a record producer, songwriter (Ashlee Simpson, Lily Allen) and former label talent scout, White first got in front of the mic as the lead singer of the Philadelphia punk band The Stiffed. You can hear traces of that group’s Straight Jackers on Santogold’s upbeat mix-up Say Aha – and for good reason: her former bandmate John Hill is her current studio collaborator. Where the white British singer Amy Winehouse borrows her vocal accents from the American
