Puerto Rico

Reinas, Princesas and First Ladies: Salsa’s Women

Salsa music may be known as a tool to seduce women, but the flow swings the other way too. Here are some of Salsa’s greatest soneras who bewitched audiences and proved their talent in a world dominated by male leads.

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Salsa’s Unsung Heroes

Ever since the days of Mozart, the most talented artists and innovators who provided the very stuff that made their music cool, were often exploited in their lifetimes and died in poverty, their genius unrecognised and their work…

Culture Guides

5 SIGHTS OF SOUTH AMERICA YOU WON'T FORGET

Bored of beaches, banal museums and grotty hotels? Want to do something different this time you go away? South America harbours some of the most breath-taking natural phenomena in the entire world. No tour guide needed, just a…

In-depth Interviews

Lease of Life: an interview with Draco Rosa

Having made Ricky Martin's global career with the songs "Livin' La Vida Loca," "She Bangs" and "Shake Your Bon-Bon," Bobby Draco Rosa is considered Latin American music royalty. The two…

Fantasy Island Tracks

Tego Calderón's Fantasy Island Tracks

If you were stranded on a desert island, which tracks would you absolutely need to have to get you through those times of loneliness and despair? Man cannot live on sun and fish alone right? Our castaway this week is Tego…

Features

The History of Reggaetón

For those of you who've come to it late, here's a beginner's guide...

In-depth Interviews

TEGO CALDERON: Beyond the Genre

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…