History is nuanced. The wheel of time, as it continues its forward motion, builds upon layers and layers of information that are oftentimes lost or omitted. Undertaking the task (and challenge) of ...

Youdon’tneed to look far to see that the global music industry is being absolutely dominated by talented Latine artists: Bad ...

Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico’s stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay. “That was my childhood,” confesses Farruko of the ...

If it's sink or swim, Fariana knows how to stay afloat. Born Farina Pao Paucar Franco in Medellin, Colombia, the Latin singer and rapper rose to fame in 2005 as a contestant on the reality singing ...

A new wave of Latinx artists – among them, Kelman Duran, DJ Python and Tomasa del Real – are shaping the world-conquering reggaeton sound made famous by Daddy Yankee and J Balvin into radical sounds.

Daddy Yankee is officially retiring from reggaeton to devote his life to his religious faith, the rapper said after ending his farewell tour, La Meta (The Goal), Sunday night in his homeland Puerto ...

"Gasolina" is Yankee's encore, and the boisterous crowd has been anxiously awaiting the familiar, roaring motors all night. Yankee wants the payoff — the screams, the singing along, the perreo — ...

Let's face it: We're still playing our favorite reggaetón tracks from more than a decade ago — oh, those Pepe jeans and Baby Phat days. Sure we might recall the feelings when Rakim & Ken-y dropped ...

Maidel “La Sista” Canales vividly recalls the “reggaeton fever” of the Nineties. At 16, Canales and her brother, four years her senior, formed the rap duo “Los Brothers,” performing in the streets of ...

Then there’s Mexican American dynamo Becky G, who scored a slot at Coachella in April, bringing out Natti Natasha and Peso Pluma as special guests. Her biting breakup anthem “Mamiii,” a collaboration ...

A host of fusions between the two genres arrived this year, with implications for both the underground and the mainstream. By Isabelia Herrera It takes nerve to stretch the boundaries of reggaeton, a ...