Alt.Latino

Alt.Latino

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The global Latinx community is evolving and growing fast. Alt.Latino is here to celebrate it and all of its nuances through music. Each episode, NPR Music’s Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with a different living legend or rising star to discuss Latinx culture, heritage, and the shared borders of our experiences. Let the chisme begin! Can you hear the cha-cha-cha in The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”? Or the mambo in Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say”? This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode from 2019 and takes a closer look at the Cuban roots of rock and roll.

Recent Episodes

  • Encore: The Cuban roots of rock and roll

    10 months ago
  • Encore: Selena's spark still shines

    10 months ago
  • Encore: An Alt.Latino Christmas, with Cantigas in concert

    11 months ago
  • Alt.Latino presents our favorite music of 2022

    11 months ago
  • Encore: Cumbia, the musical backbone of Latin America

    11 months ago
  • Linda Ronstadt: On getting to fully embrace her Mexican heritage in her music

    11 months ago
  • Hermanos Gutiérrez: How their cinematic guitar music reconnected them as brothers

    12 months ago
  • Silvana Estrada: On cultivating intimacy and generosity in her live performances

    12 months ago
  • Natalia Lafourcade: How making original music again helped grow her 'inner garden'

    12 months ago
  • Canción Exploder: Ibeyi

    1 year ago