Music “brings peace to the world”

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Mexico & U.S. Hispanic launched last year with seasoned showrunner Marie Leguizamo and the company has revealed its first moves.

2022 Latin American Music Awards brought out some of the biggest artists for a performance-packed show on Thursday, hosted by Rafael Amaya, Jacqueline Bracamontes, and Cristián de la Fuente.Going into the big night — held at the Michelob ULTRA Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Bad Bunny led the pack of nominees with 10 nods in total, followed closely by Jhay Cortez with eight noms while J Balvin, Karol G, and Rauw Alejandro each had seven apiece.One particularly meaningful award given out was the Extraordinary Evolution award, presented to Mexican singer Christian Nodal. The award is a special honor presented to a young performer who has demonstrated change and accelerated growth as an artist.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October by actor and producer Alec Baldwin.New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793, and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires on set prior to the fatal shooting.

NEW YORK -- Rosalía spent three years working on her acclaimed third studio album, “Motomami.” Now she's ready to take the music on an upcoming world tour, with stops in her native Spain, Mexico, Europe and New York's famed Radio City Music Hall.The Grammy- and eight-time Latin Grammy-winning sensation announced on Monday her “Motomami World Tour,” which will see her perform 46 concerts in 15 countries beginning July 6 in Almería, Spain, and includes stops in Barcelona, ​​​​Madrid, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Bogota, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Amsterdam, London and more, before closing in Paris on Dec. 18.“There isn’t a day that I don’t train, there isn’t a day that I don’t study all of this,” the 29-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press from Miami as she prepares physically and emotionally to spend almost half a year on the road.“But I'm very excited.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeU.S.-based Spanish lingo programmer Estrella Media has sealed a two-year deal with Mexico-based broadcasting powerhouse TV Azteca to jointly create, produce and air new series on both sides of the border.The companies are set to announce some of those offerings next month during the 2022 IAB NewFronts on May 5, followed by Estrella Media’s upfront presentation on May 9. But the new partnership, set to be announced on Tuesday, includes creating more than 600 hours of original programming for both the U.S. and Mexico, as well as production of existing series and the licensing of library content for air in both countries.

The New Mexico state agency tasked with investigating possible workplace safety violations on the set of Rust is “on track” to release its report by Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the New Mexico Environment Department.

Rosalía has today (April 18) shared details of a world tour – check out the dates below.The ‘Motomani World Tour’ will be Rosalía’s first world tour and will see her travel to 15 countries for a 46-date run.The tour begins in July in Almería, Spain at Recinto Ferial de Almeria and will then make stops in Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico City, São Paulo, Santiago, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Amsterdam, London and more before wrapping in Paris at the French capital’s Accor Arena.Tickets for the tour go on sale on April 22 and 10am local time. You can buy tickets for the shows here.ROSALÍA – MOTOMAMI WORLD TOUR 2022 DATES:JULY06 – Almería, Spain – Recinto Ferial de Almeria09 – Sevilla, Spain – Estadio La Cartuja12 – Granada, Spain – Plaza de Toros14 – Malaga, Spain – Marenostrum16 – Valencia, Spain – Auditorio Marina Sur19 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center20 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center23  – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi24 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi27 – Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao Exhibition Centre BEC29 – A Coruña, Spain – The ColiseoAUGUST01 – Palma, Spain – Son Fusteret14 – Mexico City, Mexico – Auditorio Nacional17 – Guadalajara, Mexico – Auditorio Telemex19 – Monterrey, Mexico – Auditorio CitiBanamex22 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Tokio Marine Hall25 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Arena Movistar28 – Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena31 – Bogota, Colombia – Movistar ArenaSEPTEMBER03 – La Romana, Dominican Republic – Altos De Chavon Amphitheater09 – San Juan, Puerto Rico – The Coliseo15 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway18 – New York, New York – Radio City Music Hall19 – New York, New York – Radio City Music Hall23 – Toronto, Canada – Budweiser Stage26 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem28 –

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year – classical music aside. It was his first win and third consecutive nomination in the category.

Finding love off the beach! Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.

The best date night in Music City! Country music’s hottest couples hit the red carpet at the 2022 CMT Music Awards on Monday, April 11, at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.

Music City is coming to your living room! The 2022 CMT Music Awards will airs live from Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, April 11, and every major country star is going to be there.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe estate of the late Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel has signed an exclusive, worldwide agreement with Virgin Music US Latin and extended its agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group. Under the new deal, Virgin Music US Latin will now represent Juan Gabriel’s post-2008 catalog and future recordings, while UMPG will represent his entire catalog through an extended, exclusive global publishing agreement, bringing Gabriel’s music under the Universal Music roof.New music will be released “in the coming months,” the announcement continues, including the highly anticipated “Los Duo 3, including duets with Mon LaFerte and Gloria Trevi as well as posthumously recorded duets. Billboard notes that Gabriel, who died in 2016, left behind dozens of unreleased recordings, including new songs and re-recordings of older ones.

Bruce Springsteen fans were treated to some of the rocker’s unreleased outtakes at a Mexican radio conference this weekend, thanks to his longtime engineer.Toby Scott was a guest at this past weekend’s SoundCheck Xpo in Mexico City; during his presentation he offered up some snippets of a few old recordings that Springsteen recorded in the early 1980s.During his 87-minute presentation, the engineer played a few different takes of the Boss recording ‘Born In The U.S.A.’. One of the versions was the solo-acoustic demo that Springsteen recorded in 1982, during the Nebraska era – this version ended up on his 1998 box set ‘Tracks’.Scott also played a bluesy, full-band take of the iconic anthem that has not previously been heard. You can hear it around the 23:49 mark in the video below. In other Bruce Springsteen news, Courteney Cox has reflected on auditioning for her iconic cameo in Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’ video.The Friends star made a legendary appearance in the 1984 video, which saw Cox be invited on stage to dance with The Boss.Speaking to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show last month, Cox reflected on her nerves about the appearance, and remembered her audition for the part.“Bruce Springsteen is such an amazing… God, he’s so incredible.