Tag: Rap

Music Sin Fronteras: What is it about Peso Pluma?

What is it about Mexican singer Peso Pluma?  His most recent album,  Dinastía,  a collaboration with his cousin and long-term writing partner, Tito Double P, debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard...

Hot Half Dozen: Silvana Estrada & pablopablo, Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco, and The Marias, Arthur Hanlon, Carlos Vives & Goyo, Kali Uchis, Rosalia, Billie...

Antes de Ti, video/single by Silvana Estrada & pablopablo.  I really love this song.  It is a spare, stripped-down bolero that just focuses on the voices.  What I really love is the...

Hot Half Dozen: Los Horóscopos de Durango, Ha*Ash, Fémina, Camila Meza with Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, Monsieur Periné with Jossman, Mel Munz

Baila, single by Los Horóscopos de Durango.  The band’s singers, Vicky and Marisol Terrazas, daughters of the band’s founder, Armando Terrazas, were born in Chicago, but they strongly identify with their family’s...

Hot Half Dozen – Raye, Chika Di, Reyna Tropical and Xiuhtezcatl, Texas Tornados, Linzae Lir, Lynda

Where is My Husband! single by Raye. A very up-tempo song that fuses several strands of Raye’s style into a brassy, almost show-tune-meets-R&B production, meets rapid rap. The song is about a...

Music Sin Fronteras: Elsten Torres Vice Versa álbum – I Love It!

I  just streamed Elston Torres’ new bilingual album Vice Versa and I LOVE IT.  It is so happy! I have often referred to the Cuban-born, Miami-based Torres as the “King of Love Songs”...

Hot Half Dozen: J Noa, Gab Ferreira, Chika Di, Conexión Divina, The Third Mind, The Black Keys

Hablanda de Mi, single by J Noa.  Dominican rapper J Noa, 2X consecutive Latin GRAMMY nominee, joins with Goyo from the group ChocQuibTown. The song uses  Goyo’s melodic, Afro-Latin influence to complement...

Hot Half Dozen: Elis Paprika, Juan Castanon, Daymé Arocena, Miley Cyrus, Ruby Ibarra, Rubio

Today I am going to do something a little different.  I am recommending music that is off the beaten path, experimental, a little – or a lot – away from the mainstream. ...

Music Sin Fronteras: A Night in Nepantla. an earworm of musical tradition and the future

I am sitting at my table listening to easter church bells from the iglesia parroquial in the village and “Nepantla” from Las Cafeteras’ new album A  Night in Nepantla - the “space...
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