“You can tell a Cuban by the way they laugh,” says Omara Portuondo. Just hours shy of her Friday night concert in Manhattan’s Sony Hall — halfway through her last-ever worldwide tour, dubbed the ‘Last Kiss’ — one of Cuba‘s most exalted singers turned heads as she let burst a …
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The Grammy-winning, Mexican-American heartthrob Miguel Jontel Pimentel is undeniably Latino — but as an R&B star who sings in English, he’s rarely counted among the league of Latin pop stars pervading American airwaves. Yet that perception would change in 2017, after Miguel joined Mexican pop singer Natalia Lafourcade in a …
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For the vast majority of her time on Earth, Thalía has navigated the public gaze with ease and grace. The former child prodigy first garnered global fame in the Eighties as a vocalist inTimbiriche, a teen pop supergroup that also produced internationally acclaimed stars likePaulina Rubio. In the following decade, …
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Late on the night of December 23rd, while most families in Puerto Rico were wrapping presents, cleaning house and preparing for the next day’s Christmas Eve feast — known across Spanish-speaking countries asNochebuena — Latin trap lord Bad Bunny was plotting the surprise midnight release of his long-awaited full-length debut, …
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Iberian trap master C. Tangana premiered his new song, “Un Veneno” (translation: “A Poison”) on Wednesday, along with a luxe new video. Recorded alongside flamenco singer-songwriter Niño de Elche, the song flirts with the classic bolero style, but with an Afro-Cuban twist. It’s a notable change of pace for the …
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Electronic producers’ mad dash to work with Latin stars continues: After David Guetta released a pair of collaborations with J Balvin this month, DJ Snake made “Taki Taki,” a rush-hour-traffic-jam of a single that includes Ozuna, Selena Gomez and Cardi B, and Dillon Francis has a new album, Wut Wut, …
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