# Latin Music and Artists **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Music\ **Created:** [December 23, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787 "2024-12-23T04:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/1 "2024-12-23T04:16:16Z")
Post and discuss Latin music and artists here, if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/2 "2024-12-23T04:31:14Z")
Good Idea - I’d posted some in the Jazz area, all the way back to the “Latin Invasion” of the 1940s. Alberto Morales, Carmen Miranda, to later artists like Cougat, Tito Puente. And maybe a bit from when I was in Argentina, Los Chalchaleros, Los Tucu Tucu, Mercedes Sosa. But I’m not that familiar with the modern ones. Although I do listen to some when Qobuz suggests. But less pop than Jazz and avant- grade. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/3 "2024-12-23T05:21:08Z")
Any and all the above are welcome here. Although I was certainly exposed to Latin artists from an early age in the 1960’s on radio, and primarily TV, my interest in Latin music and artists really kicked into a higher gear during the 1990’s and 2000’s, when Pitbull, J-Lo, Shakira, and many of the more well-known reggaeton, salsa, and bachata artists were making a name for themselves in the US music scene. I still enjoy alot of Latin pop and reggaeton. Especially some of the newer crop of female artists in these genres. My interests have broadened out a little bit though to include regional/country music, cumbia, Brazilian and other South American genres. I like some Brazilian funk and sertanejo artists, for example. And also some of the newer trap corridos or corridos tumbados artists (e.g. Natanael Cano, Xavi…). There are some very good instrumentalists as well as rapper/singers in the latter. And there may also be some explicit lyrics as well (though I personally tend to enjoy the cleaner stuff). [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/4/7/4724e8e61394d9d17fcd3e822d3151b384a101c5.jpeg "Chino Pacas - "Morena Canela" (Performance Video) (Official)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9HE268Um30) I like other regional music as well, but enjoy the somewhat cooler temperature of these newer styles. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/4 "2024-12-23T06:18:16Z")
[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/9/c/9c4d4f67bb3c8d9a70e1bfd9b0c938f05f59ca51.jpeg "Ana Castela ft. @trioparadadura - As Andorinhas (DVD Herança Boiadeira)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83LaVN6K-Sw) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/3/9/39761fc38f6d096f911f7b0117bbcd211d6e6cde.jpeg "Ana Castela - Nosso Quadro (DVD Boiadeira Internacional)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEIwc0rG8Y) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/9/6/96800bd33902d8a894bb17091b5364dd10ded6e7.jpeg "Ana Castela ft. @GinoeGeno - Apaixonado por Você (DVD Herança Boiadeira)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTCY6f9NIs) ---
**Author:** ![eduh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/eduh/32/39720_2.png) [@eduh](https://forum.headphones.com/u/eduh)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/5 "2024-12-23T11:47:52Z")
I’m from Brazil, but I haven’t been following current artists that are in top charts. My local recommendations are: Luiza Lara: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/7/7/77c68e6af77f64998b88eb01daa2cc01852f1fcf.jpeg "O que será - À Flor da Pele (Chico Buarque) - Luiza Lara canta Chico Buarque") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLMKDtU_dkQ) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/5/b/5b37c9307d48c32c17f9b8909bf62f067e1578a4.jpeg "Nossas Histórias (Oswaldo Montenegro)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm5f4Hig6cs) Ina Magdala: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/8/8/884b30ac6f597e0fae1a878113ff031de1e40120.jpeg "Resposta ao Tempo - Ina Magdala - Ao Vivo @ Baretto") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol9dID-syrA) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/e/0/e0191a1fbde8d0093c9cd8e30c53ca9ec2c301e6.jpeg "Nuvem Negra - Ina Magdala ao Vivo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbITaOvFxw) Carla Casarim: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/d/0/d01593f429f2c114a9c068c69bffd2e99fb9aaf4.jpeg "Estrela do Norte (Eduardo Gudin/Costa Netto) - Carla Casarim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-OqZza0-U) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/7/1/717d03a8e5759bef2fee2278ccac0cda3121ba67.jpeg "Labirinto - Carla Casarim - Clipe oficial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7xvHEa320) Luísa Mitre: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/5/f/5f3d26bf246bda1aadd53f66b8fbf1a8c1c8092f.jpeg "Partida (Luísa Mitre)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5rz2NOvdA) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/c/4/c447c3b96f0419d31851aa73fb476bdd54fa83ae.jpeg "Luísa Mitre | A fuga do tatu (Luísa Mitre) | Instrumental Sesc Brasil") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwkYAQdKnqU) Later I will recommend the spanish musicians, which is what I most listen to these days. ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/6 "2024-12-23T17:15:14Z")
I’ve always considered Jamaican music to be in a different group than Latin music. I’ve listened to calypso, ska, rocksteady, reggae and reggaeton quite a bit since I was maybe 2 years old with Calypso when Harry Bellafonte hit it big in 1956 with this release: > **[Belafonte by Harry Belafonte on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/belafonte/1087732657)** > > Album · 1956 · 11 Songs One of my current favorite albums in this genre was suggested to me by ROON, since I am also a Zappa and Turtles fan - warning - not what you expect from this duo, it’s really nice! > **[Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie by Flo & Eddie on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/rock-steady-with-flo-eddie/548141897)** > > Album · 1981 · 12 Songs ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/7 "2024-12-24T06:22:49Z")
> [@eduh](#): > > I’m from Brazil, but I haven’t been following current artists that are in top charts. My local recommendations are:… Nice selections, eduh. I particularly liked the bossas by Carla Casarim. It’s not a genre I’ve delved into deeply. but I always liked Astrud’s work. On the subject of Brazilian singers, I also liked several of Marilia Mendonca’s tunes in the sertanejo genre. Maybe you’re familiar with some of her work? Paula Fernandes is a bit more mainstream, but I enjoyed some of her tunes too. She is sort of the Shania Twain of Brazilian country, I guess. 🙂 There are just too many good singers there. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/8 "2024-12-24T06:36:14Z")
> [@pennstac](#): > > [‎Belafonte - Album by Harry Belafonte - Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/belafonte/1087732657) Don’t know it that well. But my parents probably listened to this. We had _Calypso!_ with the Beetlejuice song though. And it got played to death. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/9 "2024-12-24T15:58:04Z")
Getting away from what I listened to as a toddler, I really started back in about 1975, after a strong review for this in Stereo Review. https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_liqqFsqUFWyhu2QUlv1A5gk_CeJ_i2Q74&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 From which I graduated to Steel Pulse and Burning Spear [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/f/8/f8a7f91bb6a343dee1fcf1cccdbfeb0133825207.jpeg "Your House") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBzH0dAokQ) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/e/3/e3fde7129c40ec6c6e2ed8ab28a8316e1ff9a188.jpeg "Burning Spear Nonstop Mix [Dj Ziggy 2five4]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozvp-uR1juU) Everyone knows Marley, so I’ll not post that, but I moved on to some more Reggae fusion artists like Alpha Blondy [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/e/1/e1987140130a93a5e2de3a6ff19547eaf2a3e2f9.jpeg "Alpha Blondy - FULL CONCERT LIVE at POL AND ROCK Festival 2018 - PART 1 ❤️") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zls4z-xL6s) ---
**Author:** ![eduh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/eduh/32/39720_2.png) [@eduh](https://forum.headphones.com/u/eduh)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/10 "2024-12-25T20:51:41Z")
> [@ADU](#): > > Marilia Mendonca I’m more familiar with her songs, her songs were played everywhere. Unfortunately, she died at an airplane accident. I guess people who liked her also listened to Maiara e Maraísa. Paula Fernandes was one of the first of these new sertanejo women to make success. I used to listen to her first album. I listened to her live before she was really famous, she was starting to get known because her songs played at a tv soap opera, but I was there too see the digital pianos at the music exposition and I’ve just stayed for a few songs. I usually listened to sertanejo that were successful during the 90s to early 00s, names like Chitãozinho & Xororó (recently, there is a joke that their song Evidências is our “national anthem”), Leandro e Leonardo, Zezé de Camargo e Luciano, Rick e Renner, Bruno e Marrone, and Edson & Hudson. The first and third videos from Ana Castela you posted are from what we call sertanejo raiz (the more traditional one, there are still tv shows devoted to this simpler form with voice and guitar/viola), which is a generation before the one I just mentioned. The second one sounds more like what is being made now (I lost track, right after was the Sertanejo Universitário, now I don’t now what branches are going on). ---
**Author:** ![eduh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/eduh/32/39720_2.png) [@eduh](https://forum.headphones.com/u/eduh)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/11 "2024-12-25T21:41:30Z")
This is the first group of recommendations I will make of music in Spanish. I consider this more traditional (genre) linked to Latin America than the one I will give later. The first recommendation is Quinteto Leopoldo. This is an instrumental group, but I really like their Album “Quinteto Con Voz”, which has featured singers. Two songs (even though full album recommended): [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/6/e/6e90ec1669aea972b339d28f868ebb3edbf67eea.jpeg "Como si fuera fácil - Giovanni Parra Quinteto & María Cristina Plata") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP-reUYV1Gs) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/d/d/dd727289a16494403ace2e20dd0bff9b4e2e5777.jpeg "Una Pena - Giovanni Parra Quinteto & Lucio Feuillet") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgTBKNO2JfA) Next, my favorite singer, Maria Cristina Plata. Well, I already give one recommendation above, but she is my favorite spanish singer, so I decided to cheat 🙂. Some more songs from her below: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/6/6/66ceaf5e110a080f602961125b2aefee64604d08.jpeg "Cuándo vas a irte - María Cristina Plata") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INKeImde34w) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/5/6/56c0762ba778afa7ab2c4a3d3fd8ad36109d2500.jpeg "Fui y Volví - María Cristina Plata") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC00fAjXUD8) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/d/0/d02960abc5fbeb88fa2e68521c7fecb1be823be4.jpeg "Lástima - María Cristina Plata") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRNak_RF98) Another singer I really like is Nella Rojas (my spanish teacher at the time is from Venezuela, and she just recommended). I ended up going to Spain to see her live: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/b/6/b6303423bae35f39dd47f820dc0a0abc12d7b7d7.jpeg "Nella - El Fin de fiesta (White Sessions) | Uforia Music") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPTY11D90I) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/b/5/b5d5f1cd049cf3c69d77f9c43413ea2f6923d1ff.jpeg "Nella: 'Tonada de luna llena'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybLjGtZJhs) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/c/8/c8ecc612a1675a4a122bea2ebe189236e865d64b.jpeg ""De Vez En Cuando" - Nella") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZEu8WF5KX4) Since it is becoming a very big post, I will bring just one more this time. Natalia Lafoucarde. She is already a big name. I believe she is most famous for songs like “Nunca es suficiente” and “Hasta la raiz”. The lyrics of “Derecho de nacimiento” is among the two great protest song I know (the other would be Brazilian “Que país é esse?” from brazilian’s Legião Urbana). But I decided to link other songs below: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/0/5/050f261c52a6e353001e48bf6524421e5698bc39.jpeg "Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores (Video Lyric)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ejTMieCiWs) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/d/f/dfe04ea3b9d6e3f65c24af23b6756e42027c4f4d.jpeg "Natalia Lafourcade - Soledad y El Mar (En Manos de Los Macorinos) [La Fiesta Parte II]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4jntP0tco) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/e/f/ef4437417e1c2f1663fd56f2e7564d6a41f95069.jpeg "Natalia Lafourcade - Pajarito colibrí (Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5l95PvlaA) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/b/c/bcb953e52fa8b918c9d2a5c9b14a92fe7d6d8567.jpeg "Natalia Lafourcade - Danza de Gardenias (Versión Acústica) ft. Rozalén") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6wuWc6w9D8) ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/12 "2024-12-26T04:54:49Z")
> [@eduh](#): > > I’m more familiar with her songs, her songs were played everywhere… > > I usually listened to sertanejo that were successful during the 90s to early 00s… Thank you sincerely for all the details above, eduh. It definitely helps to put some of my listening into better perspective. Ana Castela is still a developing talent imo. She seems quite good though. And I’m enjoying some of her recent collaborations with other artists. According to wikipedia her style is [agronejo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sertanejo_music#Agronejo). There are some duos I like in the sertanejo genre as well. Ze Neto e Cristiano seem pretty good. And I enjoyed some of Simone e Simaria Mendes’s videos. I will give the artists you mentioned a listen though, and appreciate all the info on them very much. My introduction to the genre was Michel Telo’s 2011 version of “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” btw (which ran on MTV Tres in the US, I believe). I’m also familiar with some of Natalia Lafourcade’s work. But not so much of the other two artists you posted above. They all seem quite good though. ---
**Author:** ![ADU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/adu/32/57501_2.png) [@ADU](https://forum.headphones.com/u/ADU)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/latin-music-and-artists/24787/13 "2024-12-26T06:03:59Z")
Some recent Paula Fernandes. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/9/4/94049972e54e10741e59ba6df3b073e67f1e80a6.jpeg "Paula Fernandes - Fé No Amor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3F-t2O6-M) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/f/7/f7f43fd6509cc1376b1e5bc36a793b1a8d1b52ea.jpeg "Paula Fernandes - Me Afoguei") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3twH3Et3DPc) I remember now why I liked Paula. ---
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