The New Yorker: QUÉ CALIENTE

“Sales of Latin music rose twelve per cent over the past year””the only pop category to experience an uptick. Latin music, the industry term for Spanish-language records, owes much of its commercial vitality to three very different phenomena: RBD, a Mexican pop group whose members are actors on a popular soap opera; Shakira, a twenty-eight-year-old Colombian-Lebanese singer, who released albums in English and in Spanish this year and who performs in so many different styles that she is practically her own musical category; and, especially, reggaetón, the first genre in Spanish to become part of mainstream pop….”

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