Mr. Pauer (Toto González) has been nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album! I chatted with him for Gozamos at the LAMC this year. Mr. Pauer (from the Spanglish version of “power”), a Miami-based producer and re-mixer from Venezuela, is considered one of the pioneers in Latin electronica for what he calls “Electrotropical” mixes, irresistible musical concoctions. [...]
Qué es lo que hace que una artista sea extraordinaria? Es una mezcla casi mágica de talento, inteligencia, carisma, originalidad. Y Rita Indiana lo tiene to’.
What makes an artist extraordinary? Definitively one of the interviews I was happiest to have done at the Latin Alternative Music Conference.
Who would you vote for?
El voto tuyo, ¿para quién sería?
Video playlist of 9 Chilean bands showcasing this year
De Chile, 9 cantantes/grupos musicales que se presentan este año
Nice selection of immigrant songs on NPR´s alt.latino! We are built by the strengths from many lands, and it is an experience we have been singing about for a long time. Una linda selección de canciones sobre la inmigración en alt.latino en NPR. Check out also Beat Latino’s hour special on immigrant nations songs, made [...]
Excelente programa nuevo en NPR esta semana, en entrevista con Andrea Echeverri, nos presenta a las mujeres roqueras de las Américas. Pude escuchar las divas de siempre como Mercedes Sosa, o algunas nuevas divas en potencia que voy descubriendo, como Camila Morena. Check out the new alt.latino NPR show, this week´s interview with Andrea Echeverri [...]
Catalina Maria Johnson is a Chicago-based writer, international radio broadcaster and music curator, on the air from Chicago, to Mexico City to Berlin, hosting and and producing the radio program and podcast Beat Latino. As a recognized music curator and tastemaker, she writes a weekly column for HOY (Tribune Media), and contributes to NPR's The Record, Nat Geo Music, Revista Contratiempo, and Gozamos. Catalina also frequently makes appearance on NPR programs such as Alt.Latino, World Cafe and Chicago's WBEZ.
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