The 2024 Latin American Music Awards are taking place this Thursday, April 25, live from Las Vegas via Univision. Before all the glitz and glam, Billboard was backstage at rehearsals catching up ...

Celia Cruz, better known as the Queen of Salsa, has been officially engraved into some of the United States 25-cent coins, making her the first Afro-Latina to be featured in U.S. currency. The U.S ...

Carnegie Hall's critically-acclaimed national youth jazz orchestra—NYO Jazz, led by artistic director/trumpeter Sean ...

Tito Puente was born in New York City to parents from Puerto Rico. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he popularized Latin music in the United States.

Of the biggest streaming Latin musicians in the U.S. to date, three of the four are regional Mexican acts — Peso Pluma, Fuerza Regida and Junior H. Bad Bunny was the most streamed Latin artist ...

The Mexican American songstress had a big night at the Latin American Music Awards on Thursday, taking home four of the nine awards she was nominated for, including wins for song of the year ...

The late Cuban American singer Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro Latina to appear on the U.S. quarter. Cruz was one of the 20th century's most celebrated Latin music ...

The Santa Maria Public Library’s Music at the Library concert will feature Latin American Art Songs, 3 p.m. Saturday, June 14, in Shepard Hall, 4221 S.

In mid-December, most of Arturo O’Farrill’s 19-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra lined the aisles of Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse while performing the premiere of his three-part suite ...

She received multiple awards, including four Latin Grammys, a Presidential Medal of Arts and three Grammy awards. Cruz was also inducted into the Billboard’s Latin Music Hall of Fame, as well as ...

The surge is happening with live music as well. Through Nov. 7, 24 tours in 2024 have grossed more than $100 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.