This year marks the 20th anniversary of Machete Music, a label that, in the mid-2000s, became the epicenter of reggaeton. It helped launch the careers of legendary artists like Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, ...

The long, winding, and often forked road that has led us to contemporary reggaeton has been traced often over the last decade. In the beginning it moved fast: in early-'90s Jamaica, Steely & Clive's ...

Vimeo has agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons in an all-cash transaction that values it at approximately $1.38 billion, equating to $7.85 per share for Vimeo shareholders. A few weeks before the ...

Once upon a time, reggaeton dressed exactly how it sounded: gritty, sweaty, straight from el callejon. Baggy jeans, gorra pa’tras (Spanish slang for “cap backwards”), Nike TNs, oversized camisetas ...

El Malilla made headway last weekend as the only reggaeton act billed at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. He is also the first reggaeton Mexa act to introduce the fast-growing genre ...

Little-known artists have long bragged that they’re “big in Japan,” but a Spanish-language musical juggernaut is sweeping a much bigger market across the East China Sea. With its Latin beats and ...

The video tech platform is launching Vimeo Streaming, a product that lets creators spool up their own subscription services and apps. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor If you ask any digital video creator ...

In the four-part Peacock docuseries Reggaeton: The Sound That Conquered the World, director and executive producer Omar Acosta (The Chief Who Walked the Sea) and exec producer and star Daddy Yankee ...

Cuban reggaeton artist El Taiger died Thursday at the age of 37, one week after he was found in Miami with a gunshot wound to the head. The singer, who was born José Manuel Carbajal Zaldívar, died ...

If the Puerto Rican filmmaker Omar Acosta wanted to hear new music as a teenager in early ‘90s-era San Juan, he had to hit the pavement. In those days Acosta would roam the streets, seeking out a ...

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 ...

This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. “Reggaeton mexa is particular to Mexico City and Mexico state,” says Fernando Hernández Flores, a.k.a. El Malilla, one of ...