Struggle is the name of the game in Mexican music, but the creativity and innovation keep flowing with eclectic genres and fusions blossoming from the land of the Aztecs
Five years ago Reggaetón exploded onto the US music scene with NORE’s Oye Mi Canto. Fresh out of the streets of Puerto Rico and Panama, Latino kids, the US’s fastest rising demographic, were going crazy for it in every major city and music industry sharks were chasing the Reggaetón gold rush. Candela explores what happened next and where Urban Latin music is at now.
In the history of Latin Music there have been a lot of big stars. Yet we can still count on both hands the artists that have gone beyond the genre they were famous for to become true artists, representatives of a time and an era. Tego is one of those rare characters. exclusively to Candela about the genre and industry that made him the global icon he is today.
Over the years there have been so many different types of Salsa that it is impossible to do an over-arching Top Ten Salsa albums. Here are the best of New York's Golden Era. In the following weeks we'll be bringing you the best of the Golden Era that were not from NY, plus Cuban Salsa (by dj flecha) Venezuelan Salsa, Romantic Salsa and New Salsa. Enjoy this divine selection from Candela's resident Salsa expert!
Amaranta Wright unveils the extraordinary Venezuelan family that has grown into the leading global percussion brandname, and asks what’s the family secret?
Notwithstanding the cheesy album covers, Candela explores the rich and idiocyncratic story of Latin Music in London in the run up to La Linea's 10th anniversary festival this month.
Back in the late seventies an outstanding documentary was made about Salsa in New York and its social significance. It became a seminal work. Thirty years later its director Jeremy Marre, commissioned by the BBC, went back to interview many of the same artists. This was his experience.
The man known as The Argentine Elvis was a national treasure. The funeral was held on January 5th at the Argentine national congress, usually reserved only for presidents or former presidents. The streets where lined with thousands of fans. Our Candela romantic gets caught up in the fever.
Ali Primera, Venezuela’s own Silvio Rodriguez, was long-discarded to the official cultural sin-bin. But his popularity never waned and now his voice is being resurrected by the establishment that once scorned him.
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