Latin American music has become a powerful influence on global entertainment, with performers reaching international ...

Some of the most interesting moments in music production come when an arrangement won’t work. The groove is there and the ...

Papaya (2026) is a Brazilian film with voiceover by Aretha Garcia freely inspired by Mafalda ...

Every card player has an opinion about the shuffle. In the card rooms of Buenos Aires, over games of Truco in São Paulo, or during duplicate bridge ...

Sounds and Colours: And what an immense joy and honour to be speaking with you. Never Too Soon is the title of your new album ...

Fashion in Latin America is rarely only about following trends. Across a region shaped by Indigenous traditions, European influence, African heritage, ...

To prepare for the upcoming election in Brazil, I’ve been reading Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City by Luiz Eduardo Soares, a book that portrays a city far from the picture-postcard version and instead ...

In Cartagena and Barranquilla, you could tell which sound system had arrived before you heard the music. A picó might stand several feet high, its wooden cabinets covered in airbrushed dragons, ...

It’s a jam-packed programme this month, with mambo, jazz, salsa, rock, even a bit of classical music from Brazil, not to mention some interesting new sounds from Peru and a tribute album from Japan.

Mauricio Takara is one of the most restless and inventive figures in contemporary Brazilian music. In the late 1990s Takara made his mark on the independent scene by founding the band Hurtmold. With ...

YouTube has turned out to be the platform for many guitar players when it comes to finding songs, while a lot of practice time is also wasted there, surprisingly. The connection between these factors ...

Latin American literature has produced some of the most inventive fiction and poetry of the modern era. Its writers have transformed ordinary places into strange worlds, turned personal experiences ...