Latino Music Figures

"I have a few songs that I’ve written about my experience as an immigrant coming to the states and leaving everything I knew behind, missing my home country, missing my family,” Gaby Moreno said.

Since starting life as a jokey reggaeton band from Puerto Rico nine years ago, Calle 13 has become one of the most important groups in Latin America.

Six girl punk rockers got together one day and decided to start a side project, just for fun.

With the national conversation on race heating up, Xenia found herself more and more writing about issues relating to identity and her experience as an Afro-Latina woman in the US.

After getting her start with Calle 13, Puerto Rican singer Ileana Cabra Joglar, or iLe just won the Grammy for best album in Latin rock with her debut album, iLevitable.

Almost six years later, Downtown Boys continue to produce music that addresses labor rights, Chicana empowerment, and many other systemic problems the band sees happening around the country.

Nicola Cruz produces tracks that draw on both Andean folk and minimalist electronic textures, with hints of ambient field recordings he makes in his travels around the country.

Otura Mun has been a central figure in the Puerto Rican independent music scene for over two decades, yet he was born with a different name, in an African-American Mennonite family in Indiana.

Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade opens up about how her breakup was used as inspiration for her latest album Hasta La Raíz.