Reggaeton stars Tainy and Yandel have released a new song, “Deja Vu,” the first single off their upcoming collaborative album, Dynasty. Tainy’s beat for “Deja Vu” boasts a mix of crisp drum skips, steady bass thumps, and bubbling synths, while Yandel delivers a vocal performance packed with yearning as he …
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Though he’s known for a gliding voice that’s brought him to the top of the Latin music industry, the Panamanian singer Sech has always been a writer. He started scribbling in journals and putting together ideas for songs when he was a kid growing up in Río Abajo, a township …
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With COVID-19 sweeping the globe, Puerto Rico residents are under an especially strict lockdown — and Bad Bunny is no exception: The Latin Grammy-winning singer announced Saturday that he would reschedule his YHLQMDLG arena shows in Puerto Rico’s Estadio Hiram Bithorn for October 30th and 31st. In spite of the …
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Now in its second week of mass demonstrations, Chile remains in a state of flux after a proposed three-percent fare hike on public transit systems triggered massive unrest. Reports say that on Friday afternoon, over one-million people marched in Santiago alone: the biggest demonstration the country of 18 million has …
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When 30-year-old Erik Iglesias Rodríguez — the med school student-turned-bandleader Cimafunk — took the stage at Miami’s Global Cuba Festival in March, the crowd’s enthusiastic roar nearly overwhelmed the sound system. Cimafunk represents Havana’s modern street sound: an electrifying combination of funk and soul, layered over the five-beat clave, or …
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Tainy‘s debut album as an artist is well underway. On Thursday, the iconic reggaeton producer premiered his new song, “Adicto,” during a live broadcast on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1. The third single off Tainy’s yet-untitled LP, “Adicto” features tortured, contrasting vocals by urbano stars Anuel AA and Ozuna. “Bebé, yo …
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In the wake of two widely-publicized mass shootings last weekend — first in El Paso, Texas, then in Dayton, Ohio — urbano hitmakers Bad Bunny and J Balvin will use their pop star powers for good. As the headliners of Univision’s concert series, Uforia Latino Mix Live, Bad Bunny and …
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