As a teenager growing up in Miami, Albert Hype would often walk through school and go to house parties that featured the bustling sounds of reggaeton icons like Wisin y Yandel, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, ...
Over the past year or so, reggaeton — once too violent and salacious for prime time — has been mutating into something that strongly resembles pop music. Prodded by producers such as Luny Tunes and ...
Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” is often the reggaeton song some people first remember hearing, particularly outside of Latin America. Now, Daddy Yankee, who is a pioneer in the genre, is an executive ...
Honduran-born, Montreal-based artist Isabella Lovestory was raised on a steady diet of reggaetón, Y2K-era pop, and more experimental pop artists like Uffie and Crystal Castles, and that all comes ...
It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Conn., and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has since ...
The last time a song sung primarily in Spanish hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts was in 1996, with Los Del Rio’s “Macarena.” Now, that dance-craze-causer has a successor in Luis Fonsi and Daddy ...
The Billboard Latin and Billboard Español edit teams rank the ultimate Spanish-language pop songs from Y2K to now. Our list of the best 50 Latin pop songs of the 2000s is culled from the collective ...
Little Mix are getting all Spanglish on us - the girls' new single is a collaboration with Latin boyband CNCO. Jade, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Perrie teased the news earlier today on their Twitter account ...
Melting pop: Reggae star Patrice 11/23/2015 Melting Pop takes a look at German acts with multicultural roots. The Cologne-born singer and guitarist Patrice is of Sierra Leonean-German origin, and dubs ...
Perreo and reggaeton have come a long way from the clubs of Puerto Rico and even further from the Jamaican workers who brought reggae and dancehall to Panama. Today, perreo has become a globally ...