Alt.Latino
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The global Latinx community is evolving and growing fast. Alt.Latino is here to celebrate it and all of its nuances through music. Each episode, NPR Music's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with a different living legend or rising star to discuss Latinx culture, heritage, and the shared borders of our experiences. Let the chisme begin!Support NPR and get your music exploration sponsor-free with Alt.Latino+. Learn more at plus.npr.org/nprmusic
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Dec 12, 2021 • 50min
Alt.Latino presents the best singles of 2021
The Alt.Latino team discusses the best Latin music singles of 2021.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Dec 5, 2021 • 42min
Alt.Latino looks back at the best albums of 2021
The Alt.Latino team brings you a discussion of a few of our favorite album releases from 2021.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Nov 21, 2021 • 29min
Voices from the past in Ecuador and Venezuela
Two new compilations capture moments long lost to time using archival recordings from the 1960s and 70s.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 31, 2021 • 16min
Honor the Departed in Our Annual Sonic Altar
In what's become an annual Día de los Muertos tradition, we play music and personal dedications honoring the departed.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 24, 2021 • 35min
Presenting 'It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders': Pop music's 'Latin Explosion'
This week on Alt.Latino, we're featuring a special episode from our friends at It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders. From the three-part series exploring crossover in pop music, the podcast takes a look at the "Latin Explosion" of the late 1990s and early 2000s.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 17, 2021 • 34min
Alt.Latino And NPR News: Musical Profiles From Mexico, Cuba and Peru
This week we share music stories from NPR News that you should know about, featuring Cimafunk, Susana Baca and 'El Charro de Mexico' Vicente Fernandez.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 10, 2021 • 36min
Alt.Latino Unpacks the Latest Music News, Including Latin Grammy Drama
An eclectic round-up of all the current happenings across the Latin Music world. Listen to conversations with Juanes, José González, Yosmel Montejo, as well as a run-down of the Latin Grammy nominations drama. This kind of chisme you don't want to miss.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 3, 2021 • 38min
Humanity Has No Border on La Frontera
We bring you three stories from the U.S.-Mexico border: an unlikely music festival, musician/activist La Muna, and a bullfighting training center in Texas.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 26, 2021 • 38min
It's Lit! Latina Novelists On Living With (And Writing In) Two Languages
Isabel Allende (The Soul of a Woman) and Sandra Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo) tell Alt.Latino about the role of women in Latino cultures, and why you kill off the handsome male character by page 112.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 19, 2021 • 28min
Elvis En Español: 'This Year's Model' Reimagined
A score of Latin artists reimagine Elvis Costello's 1978 classic album, This Year's Model, completely in Spanish.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
