News (Noticias) Tagged ‘reggaetón’

LATV, the nation’s first bilingual music/entertainment network distributed via digital multicast, announced today that it was dedicating its prime-time block on Tuesday, August 12 to Mexican singing sensation Julieta Venegas. From 7:00 p.m. ET to 12:30 a.m. ET, the national network will have the artist on every one of its programs, including En Concierto (In Concert), where Venegas gave a live performance in July at LATV studios in front of a packed studio audience.

“We wanted to showcase Julieta Venegas in a way that only we can, given our exclusive concert footage and the interviews that we’ve conducted over the years with this hugely popular performer,” said Luca Bentivoglio, LATV VP, Programming. “LATV and Julieta have followed similar paths. When she was starting out, Julieta visited our studios when we were just a local channel. We’re very proud that she’s come back to perform for us when she is such a big star and we’re a national network.”

The format for LATV’s evening with Julieta Venegas is as follows:
– 4:00 p.m. ET, Mi Beat. Whether it’s pop, rock, reggaetón, rap or indie, Mi Beat showcases the latest videos and the hottest hits. Julieta hosts a selection of all her best videos.
– 5:00 p.m. ET, The List. Julieta VJ’s with a play list of her favorite videos.
– 6:00 p.m. ET, En La Zona. A toast to all that is current and hip, host Marcela Pezet interviews Julieta on her life, singing career and whether she plans to venture into English-language songwriting.
– 6:30 p.m. ET, En Concierto. Taped in front of a live audience in its own state-of-the-art studios, LATV’s En Concierto is legendary for introducing new artists and established rock stars. This brand new program is headlined by Julieta and hosted by VJ Pili Montilla.
– 7:00 p.m. ET, Texty Videos. Where the TV meets the PC, Texty Videos hooks up texting viewers nationwide in this interactive forum played against the backdrop of Julieta Venegas videos. VJ Alexis de la Rocha hosts this virtual 21st century town hall.
– 8:00 p.m. ET, Verdad y Fama (Truth and Fame) In-depth, thought-provoking and never, ever dull, Verdad y Fama features Julieta Venegas in this original biopic.
– 9:00 p.m. ET, Classic En Concierto. An LATV hall of fame performance by Julieta Venegas.
– 9:30 p.m. ET, En Concierto. For viewers that missed it earlier, or just want to see her again, Julieta live in front of LATV audiences.

LATV currently has 33 affiliation agreements across the country in 19 of the top 25 Hispanic television markets. LATV is also carried on basic cable through its affiliates and in Los Angeles on KJLA via cable, broadcast and DBS. This brings the total number of households reached to 32 million in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also places the network in nine of the top 10 Hispanic television markets and six of the top DMAs.

About LATV:
Headquartered in Los Angeles, LATV is the nation’s first bilingual/bicultural entertainment and music network distributed via digital multicast. A pioneer in bicultural youth broadcasting, LATV has been in the Los Angeles market since 2001 and launched nationally on April 23, 2007. Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc. is an investor in the national network and has a minority ownership interest in the Company as well as a seat on its Board of Directors. Targeting the 18- to 34-year-old Latino, LATV’s programming bouquet offers a range of content that includes multi-genre music, lifestyle and entertainment. The network is ad-supported and offers an array of programming that is original and exclusive. The company also owns LatiNation, LLC, which nationally syndicates the programs American Latino TV and LatiNation. For more information, visit LATV online at www.latv.com . “

Reggaetonero Arcángel dishes about his upcoming solo debut titled “La Maravilla” due out this fall, that will include old material and twelve new tracks. Arcángel said on an interview that his new album will be:

Friendlier to the ears –as much for the kids as for the parents”*

Dozens of jet-skiers come from launching docks in the Rockaways and City Island to enjoy the day-long impromptu party along this section of Riverside Park, known to regulars as El Malecón (evoking Havana and Santo Domingo’s boardwalks).

Car stereos blare salsa, merengue and reggaetón, sparking bouts of dancing in a parking lot adjacent to the river. “*

Bigger on mun2 is back, and bigger than ever! Following last year’s action-packed Bigger series, mun2 kicks off this year’s multi-platform campaign with an exclusive “Reggaeton is Bigger on mun2.”"*

The sun was about to set when a young man from Miami showed up in Havana and picked up a group of five people that included Cuban reggaeton singer Elvis Manuel.

Then the visitor drove the five about 100 miles west to a marshy beach in Pinar del Rio province and told them that a boat was coming later that night to take them to Miami.

That man, according to two other people who were on the boat: one of the singer’s Miami-based producers, Lester Delgado.”*

Reggaetón, the Puerto Rican rhythm-and-rhyme style that spread from regional to international audiences as the 21st century began, has been stalled in the United States by a language barrier. Hip-hop and R&B had their flirtation with it around 2005. But in other Spanish-speaking territories, reggaetón has entrenched itself so strongly that the Puerto Rican duo Wisin & Yandel sold out Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

In their songs, Wisin (born Juan Luis Morera Luna) and Yandel (Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar) can’t resist a pretty body, especially when she’s dancing. Over the boom-chicka-boom-chick reggaetón beat — a Latin twist on Jamaican dancehall — Yandel (pronounced Yon-DELL) croons romantic endearments while Wisin (WE-seen) raps some racier specifics. Pop melodies dominate the songs, adrenalized by Wisin’s excitable voice. Now and then they claim reggaetón’s street-level grit, but they’re pop Romeos at heart, with squealing female fans who return the affection.”*

In their 2005 single “Rákata,” the reggaetón duo Wisín & Yandel demanded that their rivals either dance or get out of the way.

Since then, the two Puerto Ricans have followed through on that demand, churning out danceable hits with a consistency rarely seen in contemporary Latin music.

And on Saturday the self-proclaimed “Duo de la Historia” will be in Madison Square Garden for a concert that could very well be the highlight of this National Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend.”*

Puerto Rico traditionally complains of being ignored by the rest of the United States, but that has just changed, if only for the moment. With a Democratic presidential primary to be held here on June 1, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton began their Memorial Day weekend here in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Clinton, now the clear underdog for the nomination, has been especially active, combining American and Latin American campaign techniques in hopes of demonstrating her strength in yet another Hispanic constituency. She has not only employed television and radio advertisements in Spanish and English, but also has sent batucada percussion ensembles and mobile loudspeakers playing reggaetón chants into the streets to spread her message.”*

Even though Wisin and Yandel were applauded by their fans during their concert last Thursday in Panama City –where they made everyone dance– the Reggaetón duo has been accused by a Panamanian songwriter of plagiarizing one of his songs. “*

Singer Christian Colón, better known as Khriz of the reggaeton duo Angel & Khriz, and his wife Ashley Guzmán have gotten divorced, the artist said on the Puerto Rican show El Circo de Reggaetón 94. “*

*From: http://www.peopleenespanol.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

It’s getting late in the decade, and we don’t even have a proper name for it. There is a strong sense of how we think of pop music history in terms of “the ’70s,” “the ’80s,” and even “the ’90s,” and Latin music has its parallel moments - think the Fania All-Stars, Julio Iglesias, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Juan Luis Guerra, the Buena Vista Social Club and, finally, Daddy Yankee. It’s time we locate contemporary Latin music trends in something called “Los Zeros.”

What characterizes the era of Los Zeros? One trend, urban pop, has its roots in the ’90s, when rap and dancehall en Español laid the groundwork for reggaetón. The influence of ’70s and ’80s styles such as reggae and post-disco R&B crept gradually into Latin music until a new hybrid of polyrhythmic Caribbean beats and slow-jam aesthetics created the urban pop sound. Now, what once seemed separate genres - hard-core reggaetón, romantic pop, salsa, merengue, cumbia and bachata - are all part of a new fusion.”*

*From: http://www.newsday.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

Being pragmatic has served Armando Christian “Pitbull” Perez pretty well over the course of three CDs, including his newest, The Boatlift. Pitbull is not a visionary; he’s not trying to establish a new school of thought or music-making. He’s just bringing his own sensibilities — Cuban-American, Miami-bred — to the big enterprise of hip-hop. That results-oriented approach has won him a measure of fame and respect, and a few likable hits.

On The Boatlift he consolidates his position as the Dirty South’s Hispanic voice. Get Up/Levantate and The Anthem merge streetwise rap and reggaetón with halftime-show sonic booms that Pitbull learned as a sidekick to Lil Jon, Atlanta’s crunk maestro. But Pitbull also expands into well-trod r&b territory. The first single, Secret Admirer, is a ballad, with spangly keyboards and lovey-dovey hooks from Atlanta crooner Lloyd. Pitbull is practically crooning, too, in soft rap tones directed at some unnamed club hottie.”*

For a while, during the mid-1990s, the Mexican rock band Café Tacuba looked as if it was heading toward a careful balance of past-meets-future, mixing up Mexican folk and bolero roots with progressive, futuristic, pan-national ideas about rock or electronic music. But even that balance ended up as a limitation; it seems the band would rather work without any expectations at all.

Café Tacuba’s new record, “Sino” (Universal Latino), sounds more like classic-rock radio, as did the band’s show at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday night. And the band’s lyrics, paradoxically, are leaning toward a punk’s general suspicion of categories. “You define rock or electronica, reggaetón or hip-hop, on what the radio imposes,” the band’s short, animated singer Rubén Albarrán sneered in the new song “De Acuerdo.” “Let’s agree to disagree.” And on “El Outsider” he took the position of living outside of the system: of laws, doctors, the media.”*

As part of an independent media campaign, Nueva Vista Media and MUSA Inc. have produced a web-based mini-novela series called, “Tu Voz, Tu Voto” (Your Voice, Your Vote) to promote Presidential candidate Barack Obama and motivate Latinos and young people to vote in the upcoming Presidential primaries. Inspired by the wildly popular Latin American telenovelas, the mini-novelas include three episodes that follow the political journey of the fictional Ortiz family as they engage themselves in the political process and learn about Barack Obama as the candidate for hope, unity and change. The mini-novelas are featured on the websites: www.amigosdeobama.com and www.votehope2008.org.

Tu Voz, Tu Voto will be released in its entirety in November, and will be distributed online via YouTube, and through an advertising buy on univision.com. Individual episodes of the mini-novelas will be released in the following weeks, on www.amigosdeobama.com and www.votehope2008.org. The mini-novelas are part of the “Como Se Dice…Como Se Llama (Obama, Obama)” media campaign that was launched by Nueva Vista Media in June. The campaign featured a website and reggaetón song.

The media campaign was created to fill a void in media outreach to Latinos. “We are using creative media to introduce Barack Obama to Latinos and communicate a positive message about his leadership on pertinent issues. We believe that the mini-novelas will engage, entertain, and most importantly, encourage minority groups to register to vote and support Senator Obama,” said Miguel Orozco of Nueva Vista Media, Inc.

Since its launch, www.amigosdeobama.com has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits and has expanded its outreach efforts to work with Vote Hope of California and other grassroot organizations. Over 13 million eligible Latino voters live in states with primary elections on or before February 5th. The website’s goal is to be an online resource for Latinos in key primary states where Latinos could represent the swing vote.

Amigos de Obama is inspired by Barack Obama, but not funded by the Obama for America Presidential Campaign.

About Nueva Vista Media, Inc.

Nueva Vista Media collaborates with MUSA Films, Inc. to create integrated media campaigns and produce films that teach Latinos how to navigate through educational, financial and health systems in the U.S.”*

WHO:
Daddy Yankee, known for reeling off the rat-a-tat rhymes of reggaetón, shares his life changing past that launched his career in music and movies on Estudio Billboard, October 30th.

Daddy Yankee is best known for his smash hit “Gasolina” and other dance-hall tracks such as “Lo Que Paso, Paso” and “El Jefe,” the title track from his new album. On Estudio Billboard, Yankee reveals intimate details about his life growing up on the streets and how he and many other young Latinos are shaped by these experiences.

Jumping into an impromptu performance with host Leila Cobo, Daddy Yankee proves again why he is the king of reggaetón.

WHAT:
Estudio Billboard is a new music and interview series developed by V-me in collaboration with Billboard Magazine hosted Leila Cobo, the ultimate Latin music insider. Shot before an intimate live audience, Latin artists reveal new insights into their lives, careers, musical influences and much more.

WHERE:
Presented locally by public TV stations and carried on basic digital cable in many cities and nationally on DISH Network Ch 9414 and DISHLatino Ch 846. To find specific channel information for your market visit www.v-me.tv

WHEN:
Estudio Billboard airs on Tuesday nights at 10:00pm (ET) repeating at 1:00 am and Sundays at 8:00pm.”*