As we add to our "Great Americas Songbook," TPR's James Baker listens to the music of Consuelo Velasquez and María Grever.
Defining records from Ricky Martin, Linda Ronstadt and the Buena Vista Social Club have been inducted into the National Recording Registry, the Library of Congress announced. Martin’s Latin pop ...
They may be the new generation and the face of the genre today, but the foundations of regional Mexican – an umbrella term comprising banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño, mariachi and more subgenres – ...
In its third year, Sueños has the largest crowd yet. Nearly 70,000 people attended the Latino music festival on Saturday in Chicago’s Grant Park, bringing Latinos from all over the country together.
Christian Nodal decided to celebrate the music of his country in a special way. In honor of Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 14, the música Mexicana star released his new EP México En Mi Voz. On the ...
When Chicago singer-songwriter adan diaz found out he would be performing on the first night of Lollapalooza, he thought it must be a mistake. The 20-year-old musician got the call when he was headed ...
When the lights dimmed recently at the Allstate Arena, the crowd cheered for Marco Antonio Solis, one of Mexico’s most popular legacy singers and songwriters. “El Buki,” as many know him, is ...
There’s no place like home, and Becky G is swinging the door open to her casa. Born Rebbeca Marie Gomez in Inglewood, California, the Latin pop princess found teen stardom in the mid-2010s with hits ...