“I am grateful to the Latin neighborhood and to all americans who feels oneness with our mission to bring equality, equity, justice, solidarity, and harmony,” Santana stated in an announcement. “We wake up on day by day foundation to the touch other folks’s hearts with our track, spirits-imaginative and prescient, and to assign a inequity on the earth, for the superb stunning for life, other folks, and the planet. It’s a ways a blessing to be a blessing. We thank the Hispanic Heritage Basis and PBS for this stunning honor.”
Zion y Lennox Fetch an even time 20 Years
Zion and Lennox will celebrate 20 years of occupation without a longer one, no longer two, but three abet-to-abet concerts within the emblematic Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican duo, easy of Félix Ortiz (Zion) and Gabriel Pizarro (Lennox), fashioned in 2000 in Carolina and released their debut album, Motivando a la Yal, in 2004. Since then, the duo has dropped limitless reggaeton hits, at the side of “Yo Voy,” “Hay Algo en Ti” and “La Player,” to call a couple of. Zion y Lennox will compose on December 2, 3, and 4. Tickets are already on sale by draw of Ticketera.com.
Wisin’s La Detrimental Expands
Lower than a one year after launching his sage impress, La Detrimental, dispensed by The Orchard by draw of WK Recordsdata and essentially based fully in Puerto Rico, Wisin is expanding to a 2nd predicament within the Dominican Republic, Billboard can verify. La Detrimental Music formally launched within the summer season of 2020 with new signees Chris Andrew and Abdiel Larralde. La Detrimental Music’s resident engineer and award-a success producers consist of Hyde Quimico and Los Legendarios, who hold labored with Latin superstars love Daddy Yankee, Ozuna and Reik.
Arthur Hanlon Makes the Rounds With Piano y Mujer
In celebration of his newest production, Piano y Mujer, virtuoso pianist Arthur Hanlon has partnered with multinational trace Yamaha, which is intriguing to hold him performing exclusively on Yamaha pianos. Faithful to the logo that sparked his like for track when he became handiest six years primitive and became his very first piano, Hanlon feels honored to be segment of the Yamaha family. “ I like the Yamaha sound, which is excellent for Latin track: a superb excessive discontinue, and on the same time, a deep, soulful bass discontinue,” he expressed in an announcement.
The partnership comes three months after the originate of his album Piano y Mujer, the put he teamed up with most seemingly the most industry’s most iconic female voices, at the side of Kany García, Natalia Jiménez, ChocQuibTown’s Gloria “Goyo” Martínez, Evaluna Montaner and Nella for intimate performances of traditional songs powered by his piano. The live performance particular is at this time streaming on HBO Max and HBO Latin, and beginning July 4 this is in a position to be on hand at some stage in Latin The US by draw of the Sony Channel.
Editor’s tell: Hanlon is married to Billboard vp/Latin industry lead Leila Cobo.
Pandora Unveils Original Pop Scrape
This week, streaming platform Pandora launched its new home known as “La Vida in Pop,” which spotlights pop superstars and trendsetters within the Latin track realm, comparable to Camilo, Juanes, Anitta and Ricky Martin. The home capabilities all the pieces from ballads to reggaeton to crossover hits, honoring the track and artists that hold made Latin pop smartly-liked. “La Vida in Pop is the renaissance of Latin standard track, the superb in nowadays’s Latin pop,” vital a press assertion.
