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NYC music
fromwww.amny.com
7 hours ago

Bronx-based musician Bobby Sanabria to release album celebrating legacy of Arsenio Rodriguez | amNewYork

Bobby Sanabria's new live album pays tribute to Cuban musician Arsenio Rodriguez, reflecting his deep musical roots and influences from the South Bronx.
fromCity & State NY
4 days ago

Ruben Diaz Jr. says Latinas from the Bronx are ready to take charge

Bronx politics has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Since 2006, only Carl Heastie, Jeff Dinowitz, and maybe Jose M. Serrano remain elected. The demographic shift is evident, with areas like Throggs Neck and Morris Park now represented by Latino women, reflecting a growing Latino population, particularly Dominicans.
NYC politics
Music
fromQueerty
4 days ago

WATCH: Ricky Martin just dropped a remake of one of his sultriest '90s twink videos - Queerty

Ricky Martin reimagines his classic song 'Vuelve' into a festive cumbia track, celebrating Latino joy and nostalgia for his '90s hits.
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer

Espina humorously admitted to oversleeping on a significant news day, stating, 'Breaking news, mi gente! I can't believe it.' His videos celebrated Maduro's fall but also expressed concern about the complexities of the situation.
US Elections
NYC LGBT
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

How a Dexter' Star Is Singing Her Way Through Spanish Harlem

Luna Lauren Velez maintains her Puerto Rican roots while thriving in Hollywood, known for roles in 'New York Undercover' and 'Dexter'.
fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

Eliades Ochoa, the last great troubadour: People in Cuba have lost their joy'

Eliades Ochoa's aura is so powerful that under the generous rays of sunlight streaming through the large window on this March morning, he evokes a Western film.
Madrid food
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

Sound of the Week: CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - FREE SPIRITS - KALTBLUT Magazine

The album showcases an audacious blend of trap, rock, pop, and experimental elements, all infused with a refreshing emotional honesty.
Music production
Music production
fromPitchfork
2 weeks ago

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso: Free Spirits

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso blend Latin trap, jazz, funk, and tropical rhythms with sharp musicianship and internet absurdism, achieving critical success before announcing a hiatus and returning with the experimental album Free Spirits.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Why did Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show hit a nerve?

Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for four years. He headlined the Super Bowl, singing in Spanish, challenging long-held ideas about what it means to be mainstream. His career highlights how streaming platforms, diaspora audiences, and shifting cultural power now determine global relevance.
Music
#bad-bunny
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Salsa pioneer Willie Colon has died; Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Rauw Alejandro & others pay tribute

Willie Colón, pioneering salsa musician, died at 75, leaving a lasting legacy through influential recordings, collaborations, and widespread impact on Latin music.
New York City
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Bad Bunny brought a tiny Brooklyn Latino bar to the Super Bowl stage, and it meant the world to me

Toñita's Caribbean Social Club is a vital, welcoming cultural hub and one of New York City's last traditional Latino social clubs.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Bad Bunny streams skyrocketed after the Super Bowl, up 175% in the U.S.

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show drove U.S. streams up 175% to 99.6 million on Feb. 9, following earlier Grammy-driven streaming gains.
Music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

How Bad Bunny Saved the Grammys

Grammy winners included a Puerto Rican superstar who criticized Trump's ICE deployment, amid longstanding criticism of the Recording Academy's bias toward older, white, male artists.
Music
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

How a Grammy-winning Bad Bunny song came together in the East Village | amNewYork

Fab Dupont mixed a song on Bad Bunny's Album of the Year at Flux Studios and has worked with numerous top international artists.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Bad Bunny gives Super Bowl viewers two choices: crash out or tap in

U.S. power shapes Caribbean mobility and cultural transmission, framing Spanish-language expressions like Bad Bunny's as un-American and prompting either exclusionary resentment or engaged curiosity.
Music
fromFortune
2 months ago

Meet Bad Bunny: Super Bowl headliner who used to work at a grocery store. The son of a truck driver and English teacher turned SoundCloud superstar | Fortune

Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8, with Green Day also slated to perform.
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fromPitchfork
2 months ago

A$AP Rocky Drops New Song "Flackito Jodye" with Tokischa

A$AP Rocky has released a new song with Dominican artist Tokischa. Shared today (January 21), "Flackito Jodye" now appears on the track list to the Harlem rapper's new album Don't Be Dumb.
Music
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

How the Global Rise of Latin American Music Is Shaping Travel

In the just-named Grammy Album of the Year, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS-which Bad Bunny has declared his " most Puerto Rican album " to date-the supernova reggaetonero painted an evocative portrait of the Caribbean island, while declaring to a whopping 8.6 million listeners: "VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR" (I'm going to bring you to Puerto Rico). And he did. Last year, a record-breaking number of tourists-7,486,000 to be exact-visited Puerto Rico's tropical shores.
Music
Music
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Had a Wealth of Cultural References-From Real Bars You Can Visit to Traditional Music to Listen to

Bad Bunny's mostly Spanish Super Bowl performance spotlighted Puerto Rican and Latin American culture through artists, local icons, fashion, and everyday street traditions.
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