Boogat

Boogát is a second generation Latin-American immigrant musician born in Quebec City, Quebec, with roots in Mexico and Paraguay. His style blends hip hop with Latin music styles such as cumbia, salsa, danzón and reggaeton. He won the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year for his album Neo-Reconquista at the Juno Awards of 2016 and the ADISQ Awards for World Music album of 2016.

Boogát was raised in the south part of Beauport, nicknamed Beauport Beach. He moved to Montreal in 2001 where his career took off, producing for other artists and touring in a dozen of countries. In 2015 he stayed in CDMX for a year to work with producer Andrés Oddone. Moving back to Canada in 2016, he established himself in the village of Eastman, Québec; in the heart of the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border where he co-opened a creative space called La Mésanine.

Performing initially in French, Boogat switched to Spanish after playing with several bands of other genres that always asked him to do it in the language of Cervantes. He released his first full-length Spanish album El Dorado Sunset in 2013, collaborating with Lido Pimienta, Karim de Syncop, Chele, Madhi, Schlachthofbronx, El Kool Kyle, Kid Koala, Poirier and Radio Radio. The album won two Prix Félix for Best World Music Album and Producer of the Year at ADISQ 2013 plus a GAMIQ award for Best World Music Album.

Neo-Reconquista, which includes collaborations with La Yegros, Sonido Pesado and Pierre Kwenders, was released in 2015. Exclaim! gave the album an 8/10, noting that Boogat has "long moved past being known simply as a "Spanish-language rapper from Quebec" and who has committed to a more textured artistic evolution and genre-agnostic growth".

In 2017, San Cristóbal Baile Inn, an album recorded and produced in Mexico which includes collaborations with Frikstailers, Miss Bolivia, Niña Dioz, and Lemon Bucket Orkestra, was released.

El Gato y Los Rumberos, an acoustic EP recorded in Eastman by Boogát and inspired by the Latino Big Bands era of the 1920s to the 1950s, was released in 2020. Exclaim! gave the EP a 9/10.

Del Horizonte was released in 2024, produced by Boogát, featuring the work of Okan, Mateus Vidal, Mestre Pato, Maï, Diogo Ramos, Waahli, Shub, El Dusty and Ahmed Moneka. Le Devoir gave the album four stars

In 2025, Les Sessions Kanasuta was released as a short collaborative EP with the work of Onha, Alice Vande Voorde, Marceau Simon. The EP was made during a creative retreat at the Kanasuta Lake in Abitibi Témiscamingue.