Topic: Latin Music
Brazilian jazz great and Latin Grammy winner Paulo Moura has died after a fight against cancer. A spokeswoman at the Sao Vicente clinic in Rio de Janeiro said Tuesday that Moura died late the night before. He was in the clinic receiving ...
Olga Guillot, legendary Cuban singer, 'Queen of the Bolero,' dies in Miami at 86Olga Guillot, the legendary Cuban bolero singer who became the first Latin artist to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, has died. She was 86. The Miami-Dade County ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club will make its first appearance in the United States since 2003, with concerts this week in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles before heading off to Europe, a band spokesman said on Monday. The ...
Juniors stake ground around Spectrum Mining discoveryConcern about supply restrictions in China has sparked renewed investment interest in rare earth elements such as cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and Yttrium. In British Columbia, for example, a rare earths discovery by privately-owned Spectrum Mining Corp. ...
Bachata band Aventura, reggaeton singer Tito 'El Bambino' sweep Billboard Latin Music AwardsThe New York bachata band Aventura has won nine Billboard Latin Music Awards, including Latin artist and album of the year. In a close second is Puerto Rican reggaeton artist ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters Life!) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's capital of samba and Carnival, is a city forever defined in people's imagination by its miles of golden beach that on weekends draw millions of sun-worshippers. But there is much more to ...
Johnny Alf, a founder of Brazil's Bossa Nova music and aficionado of early jazz, dies at 80A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the "true father of ...
Rio samba group that fronted 7-year-old Carnival queen places last; underdog Tijuca winsA samba group that enraged child-welfare advocates by choosing a 7-year-old as a drums corps queen finished last Wednesday in the extravagant parade competition, relegating them to the minor leagues ...
Rio samba group that fronted 7-year-old Carnival queen places last; underdog Tijuca winsA samba group that enraged child-welfare advocates by choosing a 7-year-old as a drums corps queen finished last Wednesday in the extravagant parade competition, relegating them to the minor leagues ...
Brazilian woman expelled from school for short miniskirt, overheats during Rio Carnival debutFamed for wearing a short miniskirt that got her kicked out of college, Geisy Arruda lived out a dream and danced as a Carnival queen in one of Rio's premier ...
