Six million people in the US identify as Afro Latino, according to Pew Research. In Boston, the Afro-Latino population has doubled in 20 years according to Boston Indicators. However, Afro-Latino ...

Turiya Mareya was 5 when she began learning to play the piano and she figures her family of musicians probably expected her to play in church. She had other plans. “I studied a little bit of classical ...

Black. It is the color that absorbs all colors, the shade that holds the sun's warmth as it moves east to west. It is the color of a people, not just African but Caribbean, Middle Eastern, American, ...

The fusion of Latin music and Afrobeats has hit a new frequency recently, building on a yearslong overlap between the two genres that has now exploded into the mainstream. For Ozuna's 2023 album, Afro ...

Channeling a dash of MJ energy, the Boricua superstar delivered a medley, including "Khé?," "Silencio" and more on Thursday ...

For the past few years, Daymé Arocena's life has been transformed by two major revelations. The first struck swiftly, in a moment of fear and desperation: the artist realized she needed to get away ...

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

The Monadnock Center for History and Culture will present “Weaving Music Threads: Baroque Traditions Meet Afro-Latin and Indigenous Rhythms,” featuring the award-winning ensemble Rumbarroco, on Friday ...

In a moment that electrified the Latin music world, two-time Latin Grammy winner and Florida International University (FIU) alumnus Tony Succar, alongside his mother, Mimy Succar, took center stage at ...

Latin music is booming like never before, but are its artists getting their "flores"? Reggaeton powerhouse Bad Bunny scored a Grammy for best música urbana album in February for “Un Verano Sin Ti,” ...

Summer in Boston usually abounds with opportunities to hear live music that draws on new and old traditions from across Latin America. The future of some of these opportunities is uncertain. Many of ...

Introduction: Theorizing Afrolatinidades Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel Part I: Imagining Afrolatinidades Jossianna Arroyo -- 1 The Expediency of Blackness: Racial ...