Mariah Carey has implored fans to donate to support medical staff in New York amid the Covid-19 crisis.
26.03.2020 - 18:29 / billboard.com
Just days after SXSW was canceled and Live Nation and AEG suspended all their concerts in North America, more than 40,000 people attended the Vive Latino pop and rock festival in Mexico City.
Both the mayor and the president of Mexico said that the concert could go on because the pandemic was in “phase one.” At the same time, the government of Columbia closed its borders as the value of the dollar rocketed by 50% relative to the Columbian peso.As the coronavirus ravages the live music business,
.Mariah Carey has implored fans to donate to support medical staff in New York amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Junior H clocks his first entry on the Top Latin Albums chart (dated April 11), as his sophomore EP Atrapado En Un Sueño arrives at No. 5.Atrapado marks the Guanajuato-bred singer-songwriter’s first entry on any Billboard album chart.
As part of the urban corrido movement, meet Junior H (real name Antonio Herrera Perez), an emerging act making the rounds with his new album Atrapado en un Sueño (Trapped in a Dream).At only 18 years old, he is the youngest act to score a top 10 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart after Natanael Cano.His road to success hails back to over six years ago in his hometown Guanajuato, Mexico, where at 12 years old, he and a friend would write music together.
By Todd Spangler
Edwin Luna y La Trakalosa de Monterrey nab their first No. 1 on a U.S.
Joss Favela is hunkered down in his native Sinaloa, Mexico, where he's self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic.
By Anna Marie de la Fuente
Warner Music Mexico and Warner Music Latin America are debuting a series of artist hosted mini specials titled “Mi Casa, Tu Casa” (My House, Your House).Each roughly eight-minute “episode” will feature a Warner act hosting a digital gathering from their home that includes a mini performance of covers and favorite songs.
Just days before their online concert for stay-at home fans on Thursday, Reik's Bibi Marin chatted with Billboard's Griselda Flores for a Billboard Live Q&A.Bibi, who is isolating indoors in beach town Playa del Carmen in Mexico with his wife and two kids, talked about life in quarantine with his family, how Reik has been impacted by this coronavirus pandemic and what he's learned about himself while isolating."Luckily nothing was canceled but postponed.
On Wednesday (April 1), Univision's music platform Uforia announced the release of “Cuenta Conmigo” (Count With Me), a musical PSA created to inspire Hispanics to participate in the 2020 U.S.
On Monday afternoon, Mexican singer Thalia connected with Billboard’s Leila Cobo for an Instagram Live to talk about her quarantine experience and what she is doing to protect her family from COVID-19.
By Dino-Ray Ramos
Sony Pictures has pushed back many of its major tentpoles — including “Morbius,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Uncharted” and “Peter Rabbit 2” — in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the studio announced on Monday.
Opera singer Placido Domingo has been hospitalized in Acapulco, Mexico after suffering complications from COVID-19 aka the Coronavirus.
UPDATE: Opera singer Plácido Domingo was hospitalized in Mexico on Saturday after complications related to the coronavirus.
Placido Domingo is fighting coronavirus in a hospital – two weeks after first displaying symptoms.
As people around the globe continue to isolate indoors amid the coronavirus pandemic, online concerts continue to gain momentum with artists live-streaming from their very own homes.That was the case on Saturday (March 28) when Christian Nodal, Gerardo Ortiz and Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho joined forces for an epic live concert on YouTube.Jaime González, music producer and Nodal's father, hosted the concert in his house in Mexico, which included a full-on production with two hosts who