Beat Latino with Catalina Maria Johnson

This week’s Beat Latino goes to the movies! A selection of classics from the past to today: Songs from the soundtracks of movies which were composed, produced, arranged and curated by Latines. Nuestra Música at the movies, making its mark on Hollywood and beyond! Feature photo: Oscar Statuette (The famous golden statue was inspired by Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernande

Piece Description This week’s Beat Latino selection is new music by women for our celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s Herstory Month! New music by femme-fronted artists from all over the Americas and Spain, with tunes about romance, power, resilience and joy. Enjoy! Musical Works TitleArtistAlbumLabelYearLengthVidaAna Tijoux, OmarVida.Victoria Producciones, S

his week’s Beat Latino celebrates Victor Jara, Chilean folk singer and founder of the Nueva Canción Movement with a selection of his and other folk singers’ classic protest songs from the 70’s onward. At the 50th year mark after his death, Victor continues to be an icon illuminating the way forward and was recently awarded the Legacy – Lifetime Achievement Award by Folk

This week’s selection for Beat Latino is a prime example of just why we do this! Amazing creative soundscapes from Ecuador and Switzerland (Hermanos Gutierrez) Mexico (Abel Ibañez) Guatemala (Gaby Moreno) Galicia (Baiuca) and Chile (Newen Afrobeat) and more! All new, all surprising as always – nuestra música latina! Enjoy! Musical Works TitleArtistAlbumLabelYearLengthHuÄ

Piece Description It’s a Beat Latino to remind us of the beauty of love and romance, and loves lost and remembered forever…tunes for amor and desamor, from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain and the Americas, as we celebrate the month of love, February, Beat Latino style. Enjoy! Musical Works TitleArtistAlbumLabelYearLengthDespiértameAbel Ibáñez G.Single.ERRR Records20230

Piece Description The state of the state of nuestro jazz on Beat Latino this week! We explore recent releases that literally, took our breath away! Exquisite, dance-floor ready, complex, heady tunes that never lose sight of their roots. Sit back, serve up an appropriate libation, and savor this selection of the wide and wonderful world of Latine Jazz! Musical Works TitleArtistAlbum

It’s that time of the month again, yay! Beat Latino shares the first batch of new tunes for the year, and as usual, the selection highlights indie/non-mainstream, wildly eclectic, surprising, vibrant examples of musical latinidad, from all over the Americas, Spain and the many diasporas. There something for every ear in nuestra música! Beyond emerging, and before the the hype,

Put your dancing shoes on! This week’s Beat Latino is a selection of grooves, beats, ballads and bops from all over the Americas and Spain designed to keep you moving! Let’s dance our way into a beautiful and joyful 2024! Enjoy! Featured photo: Marlena Musical Works TitleArtistAlbumLabelYearLengthAquí Se Baila (Dembow-Jazz)Xiomara FortunaSingle.ILé Akwa Producciones

It’s our annual peering into a musical crystal ball, a Beat Latino to foresee the key trends that will dominate our wonderfully eclectic and infinitely creative Latine/x/@ musical universe in 2024! No spoiler alert here – listen to this episode, which includes an interview with Jesus Triviño, Global Latin Lead at Tidal, and take the pulso de nuestra música for the coming

We’re leaving 2023 behind, but not the fabulous music the Old Year gifted us in its last days to sweeten the first days of the New Year. From diasporic beats on both sides of the Atlantic, to Música Mexicana to Nuevo Folk Baroque to Brazilian grooves, 2023 went out with a beautiful musical bang, and we’re here to celebrate it! Enjoy! Featured artist: Ed Maverick beatlatino-E