Jaír F. Coll

Documentary photographer
   
The Guardian: Lela MC, the 12-year-old who is a big presence on Bogotá’s rap scene
Location: Cali, Colombia
Nationality: Colombia
Biography: Jaír F. Coll (1997) is a colombian visual journalist whose work focuses on culture as a factor of social transformation. His photography, both intimate and colorful, has been exhibited at the Photo Vogue Festival 2021 and was selected in... MORE
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The Guardian: Lela MC, the 12-year-old who is a big presence on Bogotá’s rap scene
Copyright Jaír F. Coll 2024
Date of Work Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Updated Jul 2023
Location Bogotá
Topics Media
Summary

Gabriela Brito, AKA Lela MC, performed her first rap song six months after her family fled Venezuela amid violence and a severe lack of necessities
It’s rush hour in Bogotá, and the city’s rapid-transport system is tightly packed with commuters when, on one bus, the thump of a hip-hop beat reverberates from a boombox, and a young girl starts rapping into a microphone.

Passengers crane to watch the performance, and – above the groaning of brakes and tattoo of car horns – she spits out an intricately rhyming piece about exile and hope.

Gabriela Brito was just seven when she performed her first rap song, six months after she and her family had fled the economic and political crisis in their native Venezuela and settled in the Colombian capital...

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Gabriela Brito, AKA Lela MC, performed her first rap song six months after her family fled Venezuela amid violence and a severe lack of necessities
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