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News Articles: Genre: Latin

Villano Antillano grew up surrounded by salsa, rock and reggaeton in Puerto Rico. With those influences under her belt, she's become one of the most exciting rappers in the Latin music scene.

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For Puerto Rico's Villano Antillano, femininity is a shield — and a superpower

The rapper's first full-length record is a testament to the way she's been able to interact with her femininity through her creative process.

March 13, 2023
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Antonio Sánchez (right) performs a Tiny Desk concert with Bad Hombre band members BIGYUKI (from left), Lex Sadler and Thana Alexa Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Concerts

Antonio Sánchez & Bad Hombre: Tiny Desk Concert

Sánchez observes the world with a drummer's sensibilities. Here, he and his pals in Bad Hombre explore the rhythm of language in a set of tracks from Sánchez's latest album.

March 02, 2023
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  • Felix Contreras
Trombone Shorty leads a binational jam session with music students from New Orleans and Havana.

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  • Music Features

Musicians in New Orleans and Cuba explore their shared heritage and similar sounds

Artists in New Orleans and Cuba are exploring their shared heritage and similar sounds, and bringing high school musicians from both places together in a funky cultural exchange.

February 21, 2023
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  • Debbie Elliott
Cuban American salsa singer Celia Cruz onstage performing at <em>VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin</em> in New York City in 2001. Cruz is being honored on the U.S. quarter in 2024.

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Queen of salsa Celia Cruz will be the first Afro Latina to appear on a U.S. quarter

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.

February 07, 2023
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  • Pablo Valdivia
Omar Apollo poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • Music

Omar Apollo taught himself how to sing from YouTube. Now he's up for a Grammy

Omar Apollo has been nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, an accolade that usually takes artists years to achieve. But not for Apollo.

February 03, 2023
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  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • Ailsa Chang,
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Hermanos Gutiérrez perform a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Hermanos Gutiérrez: Tiny Desk Concert

The brothers' Tiny Desk performance is the perfect, slow-burning introduction to their music.

January 31, 2023
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  • Felix Contreras
Septeto Santiaguero: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023

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  • Concerts

Septeto Santiaguero: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023

The group preserves and pays homage to one of Cuba's most important musical forms, with a vitality demonstrating that the septeto tradition is still fresh and alive in Santiago de Cuba today.

January 29, 2023
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  • Bob Boilen
Dos Santos

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Dos Santos' sound is a cultural melting pot as eclectic as their Chicago home

The Chicago band pulls from a mix of Latin influences to create their unique take on psychedelic rock.

January 23, 2023
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
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Lyrics from 'Me Porto Bonito' by Bad Bunny will stay with you

We asked Anamaria Sayre of NPR's Latin music podcast Alt.Latino: Was there a lyric from 2022 that stayed with you all year? She chose a line from Bad Bunny's "Me Porto Bonito."

December 28, 2022
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  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre
Anitta performs at the Village Festival in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 4.

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How Anitta, the 'Girl from Rio,' went global

NPR catches up with Anitta, the most popular singer to come out of Brazil in years, who's up for a Grammy for Best New Artist.

December 26, 2022
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  • Carrie Kahn
Bad Bunny, pictured performing on stage in Philadelphia in September, finished his international tour in Mexico City last weekend — but many fans were denied entry after being told their tickets were illegitimate.

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  • Music News

After a Ticketmaster snafu, Mexico's president asks Bad Bunny to hold a free concert

After hundreds of ticket holders were denied entry to Bad Bunny's shows in Mexico City last weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the star to put on another concert for free.

December 16, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Bad Bunny has a preternatural gift for realness, one that he wields with fluidity, because that is what Caribbeanness demands. It makes his fame feel delightful and deviant.

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  • Music Features

In 2022, Bad Bunny made pop stardom a subversive act

An irrepressible global pop star and political provocateur, Bad Bunny collects streaming accolades with ease, but refuses to temper his idiosyncrasies or move to U.S. pop's center.

December 15, 2022
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  • Isabelia Herrera
Daddy Yankee helped build a global market for reggaeton — but he also illustrated how much political power the genre wields.

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  • Music Features

Daddy Yankee led reggaeton's global rise. As he bows out, the genre enters a new era

'The Big Boss' took a genre from working-class neighborhoods and turned it into a commercial powerhouse. But as the trailblazer retires, reggaeton meets a new moment for rebellion and experimentation.

December 03, 2022
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Cuban singer Pablo Milanes performs at the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseo in Havana, Cuba, on June 21, 2022. Milanes, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba's "nueva trova" movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro's revolution, died early Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Spain, where he had been under treatment for blood cancer.

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  • Music

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés has died at age 79

The revered Latin Grammy winner was known for such hits as "Yolanda" and "Amo Esta Isla."

November 22, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
For Guitarricadelafuente, looking back on the traditions of his grandparents' tiny village in Aragon is a way of reconstructing a home and identity that he can actually make sense of.

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  • Music Interviews

Drawing on folk traditions, Spanish musician Guitarricadelafuente bridges generations

Spanish musician Guitarricadelafuente discusses the making of his debut album, La Cantera, and the mix of both the ancient and the modern that's essential to his sound.

October 22, 2022
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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