From career milestones and new music releases to major announcements and more, Billboard editors highlight the latest news buzz in Latin music every week. Here's what happened in the Latin music world this week:
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Desde que Alan Daniel Alcántar Velázquez y Leonardo Daniel Vela Soria contrajeron matrimonio, tres años y seis meses atrás, supieron que querían crecer, no solo como pareja, sino también como familia. Deseaban darle la oportunidad a un niño de vivir fuera de una casa hogar y anhelaban darse ellos mismos la oportunidad de probarse como padres.
Sin embargo, el proceso para la adopción de parejas gays en México, especialmente en el estado sureño de Guanajuato, donde residen, es un derecho aún por
From career milestones and new music releases to major announcements and more, Billboard editors highlight the latest news buzz in Latin music every week. Here's what happened in the Latin music world this week:
"First Stream Latin" is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week's picks below.
Spy Kids Latino, even though he had written the script and was due to direct the film, too.Rodriguez admitted as much during a recent Comic-Con@Home panel on Thursday, via Indiewire, recalling how he had to convince the financiers that making most of the cast Latino wouldn’t adversely its impact at the box-office.“For me it was a big victory … to have the kids in Spy Kids be a Latin family, “ said Rodriguez, who was born in San Antonio to parents of Mexican descent.
From career milestones and new music releases to major announcements and more, Billboard editors highlight the latest news buzz in Latin music every week. Here's what happened in the Latin music world this week:
Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy in the Bay Area and the Mariachi Heritage Foundation in Chicago are preserving and keeping traditional Mexican sounds alive through music programs and young musicians.The importance of cultural preservation, specifically sounds that aren't considered mainstream or don't get much radio airplay, is what motivated Eugene Rodriguez (founder of Los Cenzontles) and Cesar Maldonado (Mariachi Heritage Foundation) to launch their music programs."It was a way of
Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week's picks below.Yeison Jiménez & Silvestre Dangond, "Gracias A Ti" (Sony Music Entertainment Colombia)Colombia’s growing movement of “música regional,” the country’s version of regional Mexican music, keeps gaining traction locally.
Brothers Poncho Jr and Imanol Quezada have been performing for more than 10 years now, playing in buses and markets and at local parties in their native Coahuila, Mexico. But it wasn't until last year that Los Dos Carnales got their big break.
JD Pantoja (real name: Juan de Dios Pantoja) is a Mexican YouTuber-turned-music artist who’s marking territory in the biz with his urban-pop rhythms and melodious vocals. After teaming up with artists such as Noriel and Khea, Pantoja surprised fans with his latest production coined “12•19.”
James Roday Rodriguez! For the first 21 years of his career, the Psych star went by his first name and a made-up last name.
Eli Countryman editorJames Roday Rodriguez went by “James Roday” for over 20 years, electing to forego the use of his last name professionally.But he said the process of reconnecting with his Mexican American heritage prompted him to add his last name to all future credits, starting with Wednesday’s premiere of “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home” on Peacock.
Warner Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Bronco.
Identifying Features, from first-time director Fernanda Valadez, is like water in the desert for the mostly myopic genre of "la frontera" action films that depict the migration crisis at the southern border of the United States. Shot on location in rural Guanajuato, Mexico, this poignant film (which scooped two awards in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance fest and will be distributed in the U.S.
Snow tha Product's latest freestyle "On My Sh--" that she released yesterday (July 7) is the product of her latest experiment.She teased the video on her Instagram on Monday (July 6), writing, "process of making a song from scratch n shooting this myself in my livingroom (5,000 comments n ill drop this and the vlog about it)." More than 6,000 comments flooded the post about the untitled project at the time, prompting the Mexican American rapper to drop it.Sitting on a cube chair and occasionally
Steve Aoki has collaborated with a slew of Latin artists -- most notably Daddy Yankee, Maluma and Maná -- but he wants greater involvement in the Latin market that goes beyond his star-studded collabs. After launching his own record label, Dim Mak, 24 years ago, on Wedne
Chrissy Teigen posed topless in a new photo that she shared on her Instagram account where she has 30.5 million followers. Chrissy is currently vacationing in Mexico with her husband John Legend and the couple’s children Luna and Miles Stephens.