Beginning Friday, Oct. 17, SiriusXM is celebrating the biggest week in Latin music with the Billboard Latin Music Week Channel, spotlighting chart-topping Latin music artists. The Billboard Latin Music Week Channel accompanies Billboard’s Latin Music Week, with a focus on featured guests, presenters and attendees, leading up to this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards. The…
Kali Uchis has never been one to follow the rules. From the start of her career, the Colombian-American singer/songwriter has carved her own path, unabashedly blending and bending musical genres — all while rejecting the notion that she had to conform to a single language or style to succeed. Her unrelenting commitment to individuality, however, hasn’t…
It’s a few hours before Kali Uchis is set to take the stage for the second of two sold-out nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden in September, and the venue is buzzing. Fans, many dressed in the artist’s merchandise or girly pink outfits, hum with anticipation. For the Colombian American powerhouse, this moment represents…
Afro-Colombian singer-songwriter Goyo and Mexican television personality Javier Poza will serve as hosts of the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards next week, Telemundo and Billboard announced on Thursday (Oct. 16). Explore See latest videos, charts and news The ceremony will place on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. ET at the James L. Knight Center…
Daddy Yankee has long given advice to up-and-coming artists. At Billboard’s Latin Music Week in 2021, he spoke at length about the importance of entrepreneurship and knowing your business. Today, his advice has slightly evolved. After his conversion to Christianity, and later, his divorce and ongoing litigation, he is advocating for artists to be even…
At some point during the past turbulent months, as he searched for purpose and faced the pressures of a very public divorce that engulfed both his personal and professional life, the music stopped for Raymond Ayala. “For the first time in my life, the muse shut down,” says the man long known as Daddy Yankee….
He made history again: Alok marked his name on the Tomorrowland timeline by breaking his own Latin American record, taking more than 1,000 drones to the skies of Tomorrowland Brazil in Itu, São Paulo, on Sunday (Oct. 12). Explore See latest videos, charts and news The machines created images of the mother flower — the…
While A-list artists are set for Billboard Latin Music Week 2025 — including Daddy Yankee, Kali Uchis, Carín León, Laura Pausini, Gloria Estefan, Ozuna and Pablo Alborán — the week-long event is also gearing up for marquee conversations with top industry executives and key networking roundtables, in addition to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo event….
Billboard Latin Music Week 2025 is turning up the heat with an electrifying lineup of superstar pairings that celebrate the shared energy and unique perspectives shaping Latin music today. Kicking off on Oct. 20 in Miami, this year’s event will shine a spotlight on various dynamic duos. Whether it’s through Billboard chart-topping hits, cultural impact,…
The Vive Latino festival will celebrate its 26th edition with the return to the stage of Illya Kuryaki and The Valderramas and Fobia, along with performances by stars such as Juanes, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Mars Volta, Banda Machos and John Fogerty, who will take part in the grand Latin rock fest on March 14-15,…