New Music Picks: Denise Rosenthal & Danna Paola, Gloria Trevi, Vikina and More
New Music Picks: Denise Rosenthal & Danna Paola, Gloria Trevi, Vikina and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Denise Rosenthal’s duet with Danna Paola, the return of Gloria Trevi, and Vikina’s EDM collaboration with Deorro. Also on the list: Emilia’s ode to her father, Boza’s sensual collaboration with Kenia Os, and Sebastián Yatra’s summer [...]
Gotopo Pays Tribute to Her Afro-indigenous Roots, While Reinventing Folkloric Sounds
Gotopo Pays Tribute to Her Afro-indigenous Roots, While Reinventing Folkloric Sounds
“Ein Kilo Orangen, ein Kilo Bananen bitte [One kilo of oranges, one kilo of bananas, please],” recites the Berlin-based Venezuelan singer/producer, Gotopo, during a heartfelt phone conversation with her mother, who is home in Caracas. Giggling as she proudly relates her first grocery store purchase in full German, Gotopo reassures [...]
Lauren Ridloff is Shaping How Hollywood Tells Stories
Lauren Ridloff is Shaping How Hollywood Tells Stories
Lauren Ridloff has three major obsessions in life, running, reading books, and art. That she is a deaf, Black Latina who cherishes culture and frequent runs was all Oscar winning director Chloé Zhao needed to know. Zhao, director and co-writer of “Eternals”, and Nate Moore, a producer on the movie, [...]
Post-Apocalyptic Road Movie ‘Finch’ Asks What it Truly Means to Be Alive
Post-Apocalyptic Road Movie ‘Finch’ Asks What it Truly Means to Be Alive
The line separating Tom Hanks’ on- and off-screen personas has always been a little murky. That inimitable ability to split the difference between working-class Americana and American exceptionalism has long cemented Hanks as a national treasure. His behind-the-scenes work has also afforded him much of the same reputation–wherever an “important” [...]
Raquel Berrios of Synth-Pop Duo Buscabulla on Moving Back to PR and Returning to the Stage
Raquel Berrios of Synth-Pop Duo Buscabulla on Moving Back to PR and Returning to the Stage
Tropical synth-pop duo Buscabulla moved back to their native Puerto Rico in 2018, amid an economic crisis, the grueling aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and ongoing political turmoil. But those were not deterrents for Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, the serendipitously connected couple that make Buscabulla’s hypnotic melodies and [...]
Who Is Julio Macias?
Who Is Julio Macias?
“Oscar, we haven’t always seen eye to eye on how to handle things,” shared actor Julio Macias in a heartfelt public letter on Instagram. “But you taught me how to stand up for myself and gifted me the power of presence.” Macias played Oscar Diaz [...]
Michaela Jaé: Storyteller & Protector
Michaela Jaé: Storyteller & Protector
When Michaela Jaé Rodriguez strutted confidently across the BET Awards stage to her own debut single, “Something To Say,” she unknowingly created a Black pop culture moment. Before reaching the mic, she fabulously spun around, laughed infectiously and posed in a ravishing white cutout Mônot [...]