The Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra is named for a little slice of New York City that gave rise to Tito Puente, the king of Latin music, and crowned Celia Cruz from Cuba as the queen. When ...

The album called The Harlem Experiment lives up to its name, with a sometimes-unexpected match of artists and songs to evoke the musical hotbed of New York's famously diverse neighborhood. But perhaps ...

Long Live Boogaloo captures rare and sometimes underground Latin boogaloo, traditional Cuban music shot up like steroids with James Brown and other hard-driving R&B sounds, which emerged from Spanish ...

New York City’s Spanish Harlem, otherwise known as El Barrio and East Harlem, is the cultural heart of the American Puerto Rican community. Boricuas in the neighborhood cultivated an arts scene and ...

Since their arrival in 2000, Spanish Harlem Orchestra (SHO) has established itself as a standard bearer of contemporary Latin music. Directed by world-renowned pianist, arranger, and producer Oscar ...

The La Jolla Music Society has featured exceptional musicians in many genres over the years. Best known for staging classical concerts, since the opening of its intimate home at The Conrad the Society ...

Spanish Harlem, New York’s oldest barrio, is the U.S. mecca where Puerto Ricans first established themselves in the 1940s. One of America’s most vital centers of Latino culture, Spanish Harlem is home ...

Bodega Bamz is proud of where he came from. Growing up in Spanish Harlem in New York, the 28-year-old rapper represents a new wave of Dominican/Puerto Rican rappers in hip-hop. Thanks to his Tanboys ...

I’ve followed the career of Oscar Hernándezfor over 30 years, beginning with his work as pianist and arranger for Rubén Blades’s brilliant and still-timely album Buscando America (Searching for ...