Latin music history and what is coming out now — the dembow that built reggaeton, salsa born in New York, corridos tumbados taking the charts, and the artists moving it forward.
The short version: In the regional mexican vs reggaeton story, regional Mexican music pulled ahead on Billboard in 2023 because corridos tumbados, led by Peso Pluma, fused traditional guitar-and-brass ballads with trap energy. Regional Mexican streams grew 60 percent in the U.S. that year,...
When Toronto's Latino artists want a big stage, they usually leave. For one night at NXNE, PAPI AQ made everybody come to us — filmed at Poetry Jazz Cafe, directed by Diego Vara.
It's Caribbean American Heritage Month. Hip-hop, jerk chicken, Carnival, and a first-ever presidential run — all carry Caribbean roots most people miss.
Brazil is in Latin America and most Brazilians in the US call themselves Latino — but the federal definition excludes them. A 2020 census error revealed the gap.
600,000 Levantine migrants crossed to the Americas before 1914. They were labelled “turcos” — and that label was not the friendly thing it later became.
The quinceañera gown went from convent white to full couture. What changed, what never changed, and how much of the origin story is actually documented.
