Tag Archives: Latin

Hey, it’s getting cold up here in Ohio – too bad we’re starting to move that week or I would bop on down to this great show in a sunny land that knows not snow. ACA WORLD SOUND FESTIVAL announces finalized talent lineup for 2002, November 1-2 in Acapulco, Mexico. …

Edna Gunderson interviews Carlos Santana in USA Today in front of his new album release next week: Collaborating, Santana says, requires more courage than solo work, because defenses tend to obscure talent. ”The only obstacles to the goodies are male egos and women’s insecurities,” he says. ”You dismantle the ego …

Who is Tino? Tino is one funky-ass action figure of a Cuban drummer. According to the Tino Corp site, Tino Corp. is a record label dedicated to curating unique beats and sounds that are not available from any other source. It is also the main outlet for Tino’s own work. …

The NY Times reviews Brazilian singer/songwriter Caetano Veloso’s new biography: Imagine a singer-songwriter having emerged in the 60’s who combined the poetical and political allusiveness of Bob Dylan, the melodic seductiveness of Burt Bacharach, the good looks of a French New Wave actor, the hip thinkiness of Susan Sontag in …

Carlos Vives was the big story before the Latin Grammys, but Alejandro Sanz was the one everyone was talking about afterward. Sanz swept the major categories at Wednesday night’s ceremony, taking album, song, and record of the year honors. The Spanish singer, who was nominated for four awards, won album …