After we spent most of last year confined at home during a crushing pandemic, artists across the Spanish-speaking world approached 2021 with a voracious sense of creativity, their imaginations gushing ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — It started with a computerized bassline on his laptop. Then a whimsical trill of falsetto. Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh. It was then that 28-year-old Rauw Alejandro knew the kind of ...

As the year winds down, things really pick up for NPR Music. They have spent the last month or so selecting their favorite releases of the year. And our friends at the Alt.Latino podcast have been arm ...

Any survey of the music made by Latinx artists over the course of a year is certain to be limited. The sheer breadth and scope of the diaspora is overwhelming and impossible to consolidate into any ...

Many Latin artists emerged from the first throes of the pandemic taking bolder risks than ever before in their work — whether fashioning genres anew or confronting injustice at home and abroad. Here ...

In Madrid’s downtown area, a classical manor with a salmon-colored façade and marbled walls from the 19th century looms large. At the base of its 40-foot pediment, a sign reads: “Real Academia ...

When Michael Jackson released “Thriller” four decades ago, the epic album shot to No. 1 all around the world, but not in Israel — where an album paying homage to popular, romantic Spanish songs of the ...