I have known of and followed Texas-based bilingual singer-songwriter Gina Chavez for over a decade, since we met at a performance at a San Francisco restaurant and the release of her 2014...
Freddy Trujillo’s fifth solo album, Ave. Trujillo - about birds, or so it seems - is, I think, his most imaginative and certainly most ambitious work to date. He takes birds and...
Tribute bands are an interesting part of the music ecosystem. They do not follow one fixed life cycle: they appear; some may fade when bookings, personnel, or audience interest dry up, but...
While I was cruising through the top hits in Mexico, which I do from time to time, I ran across “Conexion Psiquica” by Aitana. I was hooked. Of course, I had heard...
One of the things I do in this column is introduce you to rising talent on both sides of the border. I receive about 100 emails every week from agents, PR firms,...
I was reminded of Santana’s most recent album, Sentient, last night at the third concert of the Mariachi Real Ajijic- their 10th anniversary Gala, which included a Santana Medley by Christ Cuevas,...
Is there a music gene – a gene in humans that passes down musical talent from parents to children or throughout a family?
Well, sort of, but not in the sense of a...
On May 6, the K-Pop group BTS visited Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for 40 min and then stepped out onto the balcony of the National Palace. The word was out that they...
