Fuego Fuego

Latin artists say the new Festival Fuego Fuego will finally showcase Montreal's budding reggaeton scene.

He also hopes the festival helps develop the reggaeton scene beyond Montreal and across Canada. "I think this type of festival is really going to help us show what we got in Montreal," she says. He says local artists had started to lose hope in the prospect of a successful reggaeton career that didn't involve moving to Miami, New York or Los Angeles. Meliya says part of Montreal's potential comes from the diversity of cultures found here. One such artist is Melissa Orellana Mejia, known as Meliya, who lives in Laval and is only three years into her career. "We [had to] buy our own CDs and do our own research …