“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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