Black. It is the color that absorbs all colors, the shade that holds the sun's warmth as it moves east to west. It is the color of a people, not just African but Caribbean, Middle Eastern, American, and more. But it is also music: the color at the center of the trumpet's brass ring, the shadow that fills the club when the lights get low and the party begins. Over the decades, Latin music has built a reputation for being wildly popular, no doubt in part due to its danceable nature. But what often gets lost in the conversation is the contribution that Black Latines had in cultivating the sound that, today, many of us regard as uniquely "Latin."
As a kid, I was guilty of just that. It wasn't until years later that I came to understand the importance of claiming my Afro-Puerto Rican heritage and how it shaped...
As a kid, I was guilty of just that. It wasn't until years later that I came to understand the importance of claiming my Afro-Puerto Rican heritage and how it shaped...
- 2/27/2024
- by Miguel Machado
- Popsugar.com
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, was in the middle of a hectic period in his career when Rolling Stone asked him to be on the cover of its July/August double issue. He was getting ready to perform at Coachella (and to become the first Latino solo act in the festival’s 30-year history), he was preparing to drop his single “Where She Goes,” and he’d been making plans to attend the 2023 Met Gala. As busy as he was, Rolling Stone got to come along for the ride,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Bad Bunny already made history at this year’s Grammys with Un Verano Sin Ti, which became the first Spanish-language LP to be nominated for Album of the Year. Still, because he’s Bad Bunny, he took his impact even further by opening the 65th Annual Grammy Awards with a vibrant ode to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, putting Caribbean culture centerstage during the music industry’s venerated event.
The Puerto Rican superstar started offstage, moving through the audience while singing a few lines of “El Apagón,” or “The Blackout,...
The Puerto Rican superstar started offstage, moving through the audience while singing a few lines of “El Apagón,” or “The Blackout,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez and Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Daddy Yankee has dropped the video for his new song “El Pony,” the reggaeton star’s second single of 2021.
Keeping with the song’s title, the Daniel Duran-directed video features Daddy Yankee in a colorful stable with dancers dressed as jockeys, a neon merry-go-round, a virtual horse race, and other equine imagery.
In a statement, Daddy Yankee said of his new single, “Without any doubt, my inspiration for ‘El Pony’ is Ismael Rivera,” the famed Puerto Rican salsa singer.
The reggaeton star continued: “In 1957, he released his version of ‘El Caballito,...
Keeping with the song’s title, the Daniel Duran-directed video features Daddy Yankee in a colorful stable with dancers dressed as jockeys, a neon merry-go-round, a virtual horse race, and other equine imagery.
In a statement, Daddy Yankee said of his new single, “Without any doubt, my inspiration for ‘El Pony’ is Ismael Rivera,” the famed Puerto Rican salsa singer.
The reggaeton star continued: “In 1957, he released his version of ‘El Caballito,...
- 4/23/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
“I want my country to be free,” said Ileana Cabra Joglar, better known as iLe, with one hand on her chest. During a recent performance at El Museo del Barrio — New York City’s leading art museum for the Latin American diaspora, and the jewel of Spanish Harlem — she took a moment between songs to give pause and take in the history of the space.
The city would give the Grammy-winning artist a warm welcome earlier that morning, on an otherwise chilly spring day. Similarly, iLe strikes a well-balanced paradox...
The city would give the Grammy-winning artist a warm welcome earlier that morning, on an otherwise chilly spring day. Similarly, iLe strikes a well-balanced paradox...
- 4/23/2019
- by Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo
- Rollingstone.com
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