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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.

BRAWLEY – As the search for the person or persons who murdered Marilyn Cazares, a 22-year-old Trans-Latinx woman in this small Imperial Valley city about 45 minutes north of the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this month expanded this week, family, friends, and the small LGBTQI+ community are gathering for a vigil and march in her honor. The “I Am Marilyn” march and vigil will be held on Saturday

Fanny Lú’s newest music video “En Mis Tacones” (In My Heels), premiering exclusively on Billboard today (July 23).For her latest track, which also marks her first release since signing an exclusive record deal with BMG, the Colombian pop star recruited Mexican songstress Paty Cantú and California-native rising artist Melanie Pfirrman, resulting in a new female empowerment anthem.Fusing urban, vallenato, cumbia and pop rhythms, the bilingual “En Mis Tacones” conveys the message that women are

Marilyn Cazares                                                                 Family Photo

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.

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. 

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.”

Warner Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Bronco.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorRoswell, New Mexico co-showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie is exiting as co-showrunner of the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico ahead of the third season “due to fundamental differences”, MacKenzie said Friday in a statement posted on social media.In her statement which reads in part, MacKenzie said, “I have made the difficult decision to resign from my role on Roswell, New Mexico.

Roswell, New Mexico returns for its third season, it will be with a new showrunner at the helm, TV Guide has confirmed. Carina Adly MacKenzie, who co-ran the first two seasons of The CW sci-fi drama with Christopher Hollier, is no longer with the show. "Carina Adly MacKenzie has departed as executive producer/co-showrunner of Roswell, New Mexico," Warner Bros.

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