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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As Latin urban music continues to pervade the contemporary pop stratosphere — with the commercial growth of reggaeton and trap en español outpacing that of any other genre— it’s worth noting that regional Mexican music is also gaining speed. While it is true that the south-of-the-border genre has remained an …
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Ever since George Harrison’s two concerts for Bangladesh in 1971, charity concerts have been a pop-music staple. Most have been straightforward in their goals of relieving suffering at a particular spot on the globe, but rarely have pop benefits been as complicated as the two dueling concerts for Venezuela scheduled …
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