Eye Openers + Musica Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
Shakira Refuses To Do Interviews In Spanish
October 30, 2009
Song banned, band pulls out of Luna Awards TV show – Los Tigres del Norte is initially barred from playing its latest drug-trade lyrics. – “La Granja”
October 13, 2009
AVENTURA Sell-Out MADISON SQUARE GARDEN In One Day
October 1, 2009
Mercedes Sosa, quien acaba de cosechar tres nominaciones para los Grammy Latinos 2009, se encuentra hospitalizada con pronóstico reservado y asistida por un respirador artificial,
A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.
September 29, 2009
Cucu Diamantes Show Canceled After Juanes’s Paz Sin Fronteras Concert in Cuba
September 22, 2009
Belinda: “Tengo tres meses de embarazo” – She is 3 months pregnant – La cantante se burló de los chismes que se han desatado a su alrededor y en tono de burla comentó que va a tener una niña y que no sabe quién es el papá
September 7, 2009
Sony Mexico raided for ‘unauthorised’ Alejandro Fernández material – Mexican police have seized CDs by one of Latin music’s biggest stars following a legal dispute between him and his record label
Where’s the Latin crowd? Even with popular acts coming to town, audiences have been sparse in Boston
August 27, 2009
La artista cubano-estadounidense Gloria Estefan dijo en una entrevista publicada hoy que si diera un concierto en La Habana, se generaría violencia, porque no se callaría lo que piensa del régimen, y subrayó que su sueño sigue siendo cantar “en una Cuba libre”.
A poll of Cuban Americans on Colombian rocker Juanes’ controversial Cuba concert showed mixed feelings in the exile community.
August 21, 2009
Latin pop singer Juanes considered canceling a Sept. 20 concert in Cuba because he received what he felt were threatening messages on his Twitter
August 17, 2009
Singer Carlos Ocaranza was gunned down Sunday as he left a bar where he had given a concert in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara – related to Valentin Elizalde
August 10, 2009
George Strait crosses over -the country music world’s award-winning veterano singer, covers José Alfredo Jiménez’s “El Rey” – listen
June 26, 2009
Next month, Melrose resident and Berklee College of Music percussion and ensemble professor Ricardo Monzón will bring his Orquesta Bacharengue to Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain, Boston, to kick off Berklee’s fifth-annual Tito Puente Latin Music Series.
Listen to Nelly Furtado’s “Manos Al Aire” the full song – (who knows how long it will be up)
June 6, 2009
El salsero de origen puertorriqueño Willie Colón cree que el género reguetón está a punto de llegar a su fin y para salvarse debe evolucionar.
May 7, 2009
Mexico’s forbidden songs – narcocorridos
January 28, 2009
Filtraron el adiós de RBD – Circula en la red nuevo tema del grupo – Para Olvidarte De Mí
January 21, 2009
Illegal downloading of music in Latin America is expected to grow as a result of the economic slowdown.
December 23, 2008
Deja Pablo Domínguez La Quinta Estación por proyectos como solista
December 12, 2008
Los Lobos ushered in the era of World Music in the United States
December 5, 2008
Estará Shakira en toma de posesión de Obama – Fue invitada a actuar en el evento del próximo enero; es la única latina considerada para el acto
December 3, 2008
Venezuela ‘exporta’ a EE UU su sistema de orquestas juveniles – El modelo de José Antonio Abreu se implantará en zonas como el Bronx
November 18, 2008
Tony Meléndez es un ejemplo de fe y perseverancia: sin manos, toca la guitarra con los pies y su melodiosa voz conmueve a la audiencia. – Orlando
October 6, 2008
This Year Marks The 40th Anniversary Of José Feliciano’s Famed Performance Of The National Anthem In The 1968 World Series
August 9, 2008
New Florida task force focused on Latin music as industry slumps
August 6, 2008
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, the Chicago Fire midfielder has just released a CD-DVD combo – La historia de un ídolo
August 3, 2008
US ambassador a hit in Paraguay singing in Guarani – James Cason
July 22, 2008
Gold, platinum rules eased for Latin musicians – numbers of albums needed to be sold cut in half!
June 26, 2008
Raider of the lost archives – Ramon Hernandez squeezes a history of Latino music into his apartment – San Antonio
June 17, 2008
Nicaraguan singer-revolutionary bars government from using songs – Carlos Mejia Godoy
June 10, 2008
Sources link Miami producer to Cuban singer’s fatal trip – Elvis Manuel
June 4, 2008
Mexico: the danger of ‘drug ballads’ – In the past two years, 15 mexican musicians have been murdered. Their crime: to fall foul of the country’s drug barons.
April 16, 2008
Cuban reggaeton star missing at sea was lured to Florida by promise of money, friends say – Elvis Manuel
February 5, 2008
UC Berkeley music professor and renowned composer Jorge Liderman (Argentinian) committed suicide Sunday morning by jumping in front of a BART train
February 4, 2008
The Mariachi Divas, an all-female pan-Hispanic music ensemble, had them dancing in the aisles before Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rally at Cal State Los Angeles this morning. But the group was unceremoniously shown the door when the political program began.
Musician’s sounds survived the tomb – pre-Columbian bone instruments
January 29, 2008
Folk Singer Rodriguez Plays Cuban Prison
January 9, 2008
Live Earth Latino Is a Myth
Tormenta Tropical and Bersa Discos bring Buenos Aires cumbia to the clubs – San Francisco
December 11, 2007
Panama singer changes dubious nickname for U.S. – Felix Danilo Gomez (warning offensive word)
December 9, 2007
José Luis Aquino Murdered – (another grupera death – from Los Condes)
December 5, 2007
Say it Ain’t So: Morrissey, Singer Beloved by Latinos, Another Immigrant Hater? « Of América
Enterrarán en Indianápolis a líder de K-Paz de la Sierra – Sergio Gómez – final resting place to be in Indianapolis
December 4, 2007
Violencia contra cantantes gruperos mexicanos se cobra cinco vidas en 2 años – 5 Mexican musicans killed in 2 years
November 26, 2007
Censuran a Montéz de Durango en EU – “La piojosa” lyrics denigrates women and extols macho volience so some aren’t playing it
November 12, 2007
Latino groups sell out shows – Omaha, Nebraska
A door to Ecuador – A kidnapping drove him to Boston, music brought him home – Alex Alvear
