With the holiday season in full swing, it’s a great time for music. And in particular, Latin music. Because nothing says SoFla holidays better than a nice little salsita. Maybe something by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico or Jose Feliciano. But glaringly absent from the music out this holiday…
Tough-to-label Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles have just announced plans to release a new album in Febuary 2011. The album, titled Not So Commercial, will serve as the follow-up to wildly successful 2009 release Commercial, which earned Amigos a Latin Grammy win, and also made New Times’ own year-end list…
Sure, you know the guy with the devilishly good looks at right. And well you should. Chayanne’s a living legend in Latin pop, a heartthrob who’s wooed masses of female (and probably some male) fans. We could easily attempt to fill this post with facts and figures, listing a near-endless…
When you think Puerto Rico, reggae may not be the first thing to spring to mind. More likely it’d be rum, hot girls, and salsa. But if that’s the case, then you’d be overlooking one particular reggae band that’s managed to sow some deep roots — Cultura Profética.A decade and a…
Colombian transplant Kike Posada has been in the entertainment and media realms for a long time, keeping his eye on the Latin market and his finger on the pulse of what’s hot. He pioneered a Latin rock show in Miami back in the day on a (now defunct) rock station,…
The awards are over. My hotel room is trashed. There’s debris everywhere — cigarette butts and cigar nubsand shards of glass from countless broken bottles. There’s a strange mustard mural painted — now dried — on the mirror, and I’m wearing a dinosaur tail with suspenders. And there’s something in the ashtray…
Screw Cee Lo Green; Buika is the real soul machine. Of course, she’s not actually a soul singer or even a neo-soul vocalist. She’s not a jazz singer or a flamenco singer. She doesn’t do copla (a form of Spanish popular song). Nor is she, strictly speaking, a Latin singer…
The Latin Grammy awards are upon us once again. It’s a night when the hottest stars in the Hispanic entertainment cosmos gather together in one spot. And this year, that spot is … Where else? Sin City. They couldn’t have picked a better locale. Last year’s show in La La…
Miami Music Festival is back again. Now, we know what you’re thinking: (a) “What? MMF again, already?”; (b) “What? They found funding again? After last year???”; or (c) “What the fuck are you talking about? Miami what now?” Whatever the case, the fact remains that MMF is back. And you’re gonna…
As you may have already read, Miguel Bosé is a living legend. “A living freakin’ legend,” no less. And you don’t necessarily need to know your Paty Cantu from your Pimpinella to recognize that fact. If you’re of Hispanic descent, this legendary performer’s music is part of your life’s soundtrack,…
Miguel Bosé is a living freakin’ legend. Maybe it was just his fate, or maybe it comes from being gifted progeny. (Bosé’s mother was a famous Italian actress, and his father a celebrated Spanish bullfighter.) Or maybe it’s the sort of thing for which he was simply hard-wired, readily exemplified…
For those who don’t know, El Gran Combo is known as La Universidad de la Salsa (the University of Salsa). And Sergio Vargas is the king of merengue. Which basically makes their gig at the James L. Knight Center this Friday the equivalent of the ’73 Miami Dolphins meeting the…
Big news out of Ricky Martin’s camp: The Puerto Rican superstar has been locked away in the studio, hard at work on his latest record since the beginning of the year, as Crossfade reported here. It seems that fans won’t have to wait much longer to hear the first of…
Chino y Nacho at La Covacha October 29
Miguel Bosé is a living freakin’ legend. Maybe it was simply his fate, or maybe it comes from being gifted progeny. (Bosé’s mother was a famous Italian actress, and his father a celebrated Spanish bullfighter.) Or maybe it’s the sort of thing he was simply hardwired for, readily exemplified by…
If you think all reggaeton comes from Puerto Rico, you’re dead wrong. To begin with, the genre sprouted from the seeds sown by Panama’s dembow. Beyond that little history lesson, though, one need only check today’s charts to see non-boricuas leading the movement. Somewhere near the top, you’ll spot Chino…
Are you a singer? Are you Latino? Do you watch American Idol and say, “I could whoop their sorry asses!” If the answer to all of these questions — or at least the first two — is yes, then Time Warner Cable and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts,…
These days, we’re all about being green, recycling and repurposing.. And we all know that’s nothing new to the world of entertainment. Whether we’re talking about doo-wop hooks fueling the engines of today hip-hop heat seekers or less admirable refurbishing (the new A Team, anyone?), taking something old and making…
Myriam Hernandez at Fillmore Miami Beach October 15
It’s a well-recorded rule that a smart man never speaks of a woman’s age. Still, Myriam Hernandez is no spring chicken, which isn’t to say that the 43-year-old Chilean songstress and television personality isn’t still a hottie. But she’s put in her time — and then some. Hernandez started her…
If there’s one thing Mexicans absolutely love, it’s their music. And particularly the ranchera variety. Okay, sure — you stereotyping sons of bitches –they like their tequila too. And burritos. But more than any of that, they love their ranchera. And the pinnacle, without question, is Vicente Fernandez. A troubadour…
Vicente Fernandez at American Airlines Arena
