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World Music Legends
Bebo Valdés
In 88 years, Valdés has gone from house bandleader and innovator to expat lounge player to a Grammy-winning elder statesman.
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World Music Features
CSS
Before becoming the first South American band signed to American indie music institution Sub Pop Records, even before the sharp-eared Brazilian label Trama released their record at home, Cansei De Ser Sexy (Tired Of Being Sexy)—known to fans worldwide via the acronym CSS—already had a devoted following.
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World Music Features
Bonde Do Role
Bonde do Role’s sound is funk-inspired, though their sonic pastiche is a mutation of proper funk carioca. The trio blatantly sample retro American pop and metal, plunging the guitar riffs into an already kitschy mix of Miami-bass beats, samba drum-loops and relentless, tongue-in-cheek, raunchy rapping.
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World News
Carlos "Patato" Valdés 1926-2007
Pioneering Cuban conguero Carlos “Patato” Valdés, a Latin jazz giant known for his melodic approach to the instrument and dynamic presence, died on Tuesday of lung failure. He was 81.
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World Music Features
Martirio
Martirio is in many ways the living martyr of Spanish song. As is implied by her stage name, the alter ego has allowed Maribel Quiñones to defend what she believes in artistically and to unsettle deeply held notions of music in Spain.
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World Music Features
Luciana Souza
Generally regarded as one of the most skilled vocalists working within the Brazilian and jazz idioms, the Grammy-nominated Luciana Souza is a fearless artist who has added a bossa nova lilt to the poems of Pablo Neruda and regularly performs in duos that match her with a long list of incomparable guitarists. Now she returns with a full band, putting her stamp on pop and rock classics.
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World Music Features
Juanes
Juanes is one of the most popular latin rock stars—and sex symbols—of the past 20 years, with an international reach that extends to the furthest corners of Asia. During a visit to a Miami studio, he explains to GR the musical direction and inspiration behind his highly anticipated new album La Vida Es Un Ratico.
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World Music Features
Jesus Alemañy And Cubanismo
Renowned for a lean brass section and a freewheeling, danceable jazz style, the powerhouse ensemble Cubanismo is back with Greetings From Havanna. Led by trumpeter and frontman Jesus Alemañy, the group sitrs up a wicked brew of guaracha, son, rumba, mambo, and Afro-Cuban jazz—a full-blown musical assault with so much swing, it could make Congress rethink the U.S.-Cuba embargo.
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World Music Features
Camilo Lara
Camilo Lara is the man behind Mexican Institute Of Sound, but he's also a top record exec for EMI Mexico with his ear glued to the underground, as well as an author on the verge of his print debut. With so many balls in the air, it's easy to see why the Mexico City native finds fullfillment in cross-pollinating as many musical style as he can.
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World Music Features
Senor Flavio
With legendary Argentine rockers Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Señor Flavio helped define Rock En Español in the ’90s. His new album Supersaund 2012 ripples with the reggae and ska sound that put LFC on the map, but also offers a fresh brew of punk, garage, and psychobilly—a raucous cocktail that’s sure to propel Flavio to the indie forefront once again.
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World Music Features
Bostich + Fussible
With Tijuana Sound Machine, Nortec Collective's Bostich + Fussible fire up their first album as a duo, expanding on their genre-busting, border-crossing sound.
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World News
Latin Alternative Music Conference
The Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) pulled out all the stops this year - it's ninth - showcasing performances by some of the most cutting-edge artists in a genre that stretches so wide it defies easy labeling.
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World Music Features
Pacifika
British Columbia doesn’t necessarily register as a locus for cross-pollinations of Latin pop, jazz, electronica, neo-flamenco, new wave, dub, and Latin-American folk music, but the Vancouver-based trio Pacifika delivers all that and more, spinning a tapestry of sound so alluring it’s hard not to be enveloped by the infectiousness of it all.
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World Music Features
Online Exclusive: Manze Dayila
Baptized as the Empress of Haitian roots music, Manze Dayila defies convention with a striking combination of performance-art that draws crowds to the New York City subway system. Photo Credit: Jamie Propp
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World Music Features
Web Exclusive: Beto Villares
Brazilian producer finally steps out on his own, bringing all the sounds of Brazil with him.
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World Music Features
Web Exclusive: El Guincho
El Guincho ventures where the others wouldn’t dare. For him the element of the exotic isn’t merely the latest indie fad for embellishing music, El Guincho lives it and breathes it.
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