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Album review: LatinAotearoa, Sonido de LatinAotearoa
California City :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
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Performing together live for more than three years, they've been individually involved in multiple different projects, but this marks their first release as an ensemble. Jennifer Zea released her solo debut last year and seduced Auckland with her
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Palenke Soultribe jump into the global dance groove
Cali :: Colombia | 1 month ago
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Like a secular shrine, the dining-room wall of Juan Diego Borda's West L.A. bungalow is decorated with dozens of classic record-album covers. "Abbey Road." "Sticky Fingers." "Dirty Dancing Machine." "Lords of Acid vs...For Borda and Andres "Popa"
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La Santa Cecilia's new single "El Hielo" (ICE) is cool take on immigration law
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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You might not suspect from its lovely, breathy lead vocal and deceptively languid, vaguely bossa nova lilt that La Santa Cecilia's latest single, "El Hielo" ( ICE ) is actually a fiery protest anthem. But this elegant, effortlessly cool track from
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Grammys 2013: Marlow Rosado y La Riquena win for tropical Latin album
San Juan :: Puerto Rico | 3 months ago
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The catch-all tropical Latin album category is one of the fuzziest, encompassing everything from salsa and cumbia to bachata, reggaeton and merengue. But there's nothing vague or soft-edged about this year's winner, Marlow Rosado y La Riquena, who
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A magical year for son jarocho
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Last week, a group of Latino and Mexican artists up for three Grammy Awards gathered in a narrow Boyle Heights storefront mostly in the flesh, some via Skype , a few present in spirit. They'd assembled to honor a strain of regional folk music
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Puerto Rican Hip-Hop Icon Tego Calderon Mixes Prose And Politics
San Juan :: Puerto Rico | 3 months ago
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When the Morning Edition team arrived in Puerto Rico to report our series on the island's difficult situation, one of the first things we noticed was, strangely enough, the sound of the coquis tiny frogs whose mating chant goes on throughout the
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Bomba Estereo: Elegancia Tropical – review
Barranquilla :: Colombia | 4 months ago
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From Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, here's an engaging electro-pop dance band with an unexpected approach. Bomba Estereo may not sound like a Latin folk outfit, but as they argue: "The music that is made by old people on the coast
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Gabriel Alegria Afro Peruvian Sextet: Ciudad De Los Reyes
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 4 months ago
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January 28, 2013 Trumpeter Gabriel Alegria has all but issued a mission statement to establish and cultivate a Peruvian/jazz style. Unlike most styles of Latin music, like montuno-based Afro-Cuban and bossa nova, Peruvian music does not stem from the
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COD hosts free salsa/merengue/bachata dance Feb. 8
Glen Ellyn :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Student Lounge, located below Starbucks in the Student Services Center, Room 1200. Sponsored by the COD Latin American Studies Committee and Casa de Amigos, the event will feature free Salsa, Merengue and Bachata dance lessons from 7 to 8 p.m., with
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Review: Electronica with dark corners lurking from El G
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 4 months ago
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But as eventually happened with futbol , the prodigies of Latin America are schooling the rest of the world in how to play the game. The reasons for South America's surging EDM scene should be obvious. Take a region rich in compelling beats (salsa,
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