As music approaches language and genre-fluid territory, those working behind the scenes are as essential to the process as the artists themselves. Latin music has long served as an outlet for both ...

Fifty years ago, the sounds that dominated Latin music were thriving. Rock had become ambitious (and intellectual), the New York salsa explosion was at its apex, and the movements of bossa nova and ...

On June 15, global music superstar Gloria Estefan chatted at the Songwriters Hall of Fame red carpet event in New York City. She was just inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as part of its ...

This set layers thirteen tracks from the Cubop roster of Afro-Cuban masters past and present into a thick forest of steamy, sweltering percussion funk. It’s sometimes more foolish than brave to cover ...