BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance. That Ry Cooder, you've got to keep an eye on him every minute, or he jumps into another cross-cultural collaboration. In the wake of his landmark recordings ...

Composer: Andres Levin. Personnel: William Duval, Milton Cardona, Tito Allen, Jose Mangual (vocals); Mario Guini (electric guitar); Yomo Toro (cuatro); Oriol Caro (tiple); Duoming Ba, Sein Ryu, Jenny Strenger, Sarah OBoyle, Angélica Gámez, Wen Qian, Minyoung Chang, Myung Hi Kim, Suzanne ...

Track Listing: Ponta de Areia; I Know You Know; Fall In; I Adore You; Cuerpo y Alma; She Got to You; Precious; Mela; Love in Time; Espera; If That's True; Samba Em Preludio;

Recorded at New York, New York on February 14, 18 & 19, 1964. Eydie Gorme & Los Panchos: Eydie Gorme, Chucho Navarro, Alfredo Gil, Johnny Albino.

Maria Elena/Always in My Heart is a single CD that combines Los Indios Tabajaras' two hit albums from the early '60s. Both records contain laid-back, folky, and vaguely Brazilian arrangements of contemporary pop and traditional Brazilian folk songs. There's a ...

The group parted as the novelty began to wear off, and each member went back to solo careers. This collects the songs that radio ignored. ~ Michael McCall Includes liner notes by Joe Nick Patoski. Texas Tornados: Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Augie ...

Vikki Carr is a three-time Grammy Award winner, whose international success spans four decades. She has performed for the Queen, five United States Presidents, wartime soldiers in Vietnam and sold-out audiences around the world. She has worked in radio, television, ...

The Italian version of EROS contains 2 songs that do not appear on the Spanish version. It also contains 8 songs that are completely re-recorded. At the height of his popularity, after establishing a fan base for himself across much of ...

Julio Iglesias was the biggest success story in Latin music during the 1970s and '80s; a gifted vocalist with a polished, romantic style, Iglesias first found fame in his native Spain and then won over audiences across Europe, the United ...

"Although I play a lot of guitar in my shows," writes Charo in a handwritten letter that accompanies press copies of her album Charo and Guitar, "I am still mostly recognized as the cuchi-cuchi girl." This is true. It is ...

On their eighth studio effort, Guadalajara's Mana continue to evolve their hard rock sound, bringing in influences like the Foo Fighters and pop. The latter influences the lead-off single, "Lluvia al Corazón," a number that doesn't hit as hard as ...

With Inténtalo, the tribal guarachero style -- traditional Mexican genres meet electro beats -- received its first youthful and polished release, one that captures the excitement of this unique flavor of dance music that had previously been made available through ...

Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and vocalist Eliane Elias maker her Concord Picante debut with Light My Fire. The set features sultry versions of the title track (backed by 12 players) by the Doors, Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour," and Paul ...

Photographers: Xavier Silva; Vale Cord. Personnel: N'Klabe (vocals); Daniel Antonetti, Marco Arguinzoni (percussion). Recording information: Allertone Studios; NY Grove Studios; Rhythmic Studio; Rolo Studios, Puerto Rico.

Recording information: Estudio 929, Caguas, PR; MAS Audio Studio, Sabana Seca, PR; Rolo Studio, Guaynabo, PR. Photographer: Francisco Rodriguez. Personnel: Carlos Orduz, Sonny Velez (baritone saxophone); Chris Sanchez , Jan Duclerc, Jesús Alonso (trumpet); Juan Carlos Cardona, Jorge Diaz, Pablo Santaella, Chris ...

After his stripped-down effort Poquita Ropa, Ricardo Arjona's 2011 release Independiente is a return to form for the Guatemalan singer, at least when it comes to instrumentation. Instead of going the "unplugged" route, highlight "Te Quiero" builds into a full-band ...

Pepe Aguilar has recorded a variety of albums. The Mexican singer has performed traditional rancheras with mariachi accompaniment; he has recorded albums with brassy banda instrumentation, and of course, he has recorded plenty of sleek Latin pop, which, stylistically, is ...

Released in 1995, Gloria Estefan's first holiday album, Christmas Through Your Eyes, has a few concessions to her Cuban heritage, particularly with "Arbolito de Navidad," but much of the album is devoted to adult contemporary arrangements of familiar songs, such ...

Photographer: Angela Almanzar. Personnel: Eddie Montalvo (quinto, congas); Domingo Quiñones, Issac Delgado, Héctor "Pichie" Pérez, Rico Walker, Rubén Blades, Tito Gonzalez, Wichy Camacho, Cheo Feliciano (vocals); Jan Duclerc, Piro Rodriguez, Jesús Alonso (trumpet); Reynaldo Jorge, Jorge Diaz, Antonio Vazquez (trombone); José ...

DANCE WITH ME is alive with energy, a soundtrack album that begs to be danced to. The Latin music included here is wildly diverse, bringing together dance standards as well as songs written for the film, every song pulsating with ...

Some bands just don't translate well to an unplugged setting (though that did not stop Korn), but with Zoé, it was obviously not going to be the case, not with the source material being melodic alt-rock steeped in Brit-pop influences. ...

Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval's 2012 tribute to legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You) is a big-band Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz tour de force. Showcasing Sandoval's long-storied titan bop trumpet chops, Dear Diz frames the ...

Four years after her last studio offering, Mexican pop diva Thalía returns with the ambitious Habítame Siempre. Dedicated to her late mother, the album features a wide array of styles, and more than a few surprises. While the title track ...

For some unexplained reason, this three-CD package is issued from albums that are strangely unrelated to one another. All of them are excellent, showcasing Gilberto Santa Rosa's savvy and impeccable taste for commercial material, which granted immense success to the ...

By 1984, Julio Iglesias was the biggest star in Latin music, but he was still pretty much unknown to mainstream American audiences. Much as they would with Ricky Martin a generation later, Columbia broke Iglesias, at least temporarily, with a ...