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I believe that there is a market for Hybrid Concerts, where an artist performs in front of a (socially distanced and/or fully vaccinated) live audience and via streaming simultaneously. The Case for Hybrid Concerts The COVID-19 pandemic…

Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with several online events and other goodies. There are artists' interviews, panels, and a Spotify playlist that you can check out! As you may know, Hispanic Heritage…

Carlos Henriquez, the talented Nuyorican bass player, released "The South Bronx Story" his third Latin Jazz album as a bandleader. Henriquez is the bassist for Winton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and presented this project…

Larry Harlow recorded 3 albums that helped elevate the orchestration in Salsa music, and catapult the genre to its apex. These were "Hommy", "Salsa", and "Live in Quad". In the first part of the 1970s, artists like the Palmieri brothers,…

Lin-Manuel Miranda did it again in Netflix "Vivo", an animated story anchored in Latin music. In"Vivo", Lin-Manuel gets a little help from his friends Gloria Estefan (glad to see the Latin music diva back at work) and Cuban maestro…

Following up on the previous blog on "Music & Domestic Violence", we look back at how Salsa music reflected our society's "machista" culture, contributing to this unfortunate behavior. Salsa "Machista" I'm using this term to describe…

After 9 years of recording silence, La Sonora Ponceña launched "Hegemonía Musical" which contains 8 songs of mostly classic Salsa music. "Hegemonía Musical" is the first recording after the passing of the band's founder Enrique…

I have little doubt that there is a music and violence link between the recent domestic violence cases in Puerto Rico and the woman-bashing songs in Reggaetón & Trap. Reggaetón & Trap Drive Domestic violence I'll…

I believe, like most experts, that it's too soon for in-person concerts. God knows we are tired of this quarantine that has now been going on for over a year. Note: I wrote a blog on the coronavirus a little over a year ago. You can…