Latin America's Obsessed With This Music Service Run From an English Attic

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When Daniel Salas and his cousin Melvin Salas first started talking about creating a music technology startup in their hometown of San Jose, Costa Rica, in 2012, they couldn’t have guessed the conversation would lead them to a tiny attic office behind an old theater in Newcastle, an industrial city in Northeast England with tech hub dreams.

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