For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the commercial front, and in the stylistic detours and avant-garde tendencies favored by artists across the Americas.

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 ...

Spanish rock has always been central to Latino communities. The genre has signified resistance against societal norms. Rock en español in Southern California generated a vibrant “Rock Angelino” scene ...

(Diana Ramirez / De Los; Photos by Jordan Strauss / AP, Jill Connelly / For De Los, Univision, Streetmob Records.) For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the ...

The two songs added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress are Juan Gabriel's 1990 hit called "Amor Eterno" and Hector Lavoe's classic from 1978 "El Cantante." Good morning. I'm ...

For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...

Last year, Brenda Lee made history when her “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 more than 50 years after its initial release in 1958. Today, Lee made history ...

Spanish Love Songs announced their forthcoming EP, A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time, out Nov. 21 via Pure Noise Records. It marks the first new release since 2023’s No Joy and was ...

HAZLE TWP. — At Hazleton Area High School, Carmen Ramos teaches Spanish, but on a recent afternoon she played music, held hands with one of her students and started teaching cumbia, a Colombian dance.

The Spanish Royal Academy has added "perreo" to its dictionary, but the term's been around for decades. The move puts a spotlight on the dance and its significance in reggaetón music. This is the time ...