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Mario Cancel-Bigay is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, poet, and ethnomusicologist. He is an expert on the Puerto Rican cuatro, the archipelago’s national guitar, which he has been playing for more than 25 years. His songs, in Spanish, English and French, are influenced by Latin American nueva canción, Puerto Rican peasant (jíbaro) music, rock, jazz, blues, American protest music and country. Often, Mario sings poems that he sets music to written mostly by Latin American, Caribbean and Nuyorican poets. His lyrics address anticolonialism, social justice, global south solidarity and love, in addition to questioning gender constructs and celebrating Afro-Caribbean legacies.