Latin Pop
Spanish and Portuguese-language pop as a global force. Salsa and merengue, the Miami machine, the 1999 crossover, reggaetón from Panama and Puerto Rico to everywhere, Brazilian pop and funk, and the years when the biggest song on earth was not in English.
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53 moments in this segment.
- - Caetano Veloso - Tropicalia. The song that named the Brazilian movement, released the year before Veloso's exile by the military regime.
- - Roberto Carlos - Meu Pequeno Cachoeiro. Roberto Carlos's song for his home town in Espirito Santo.
- - Roberto Carlos - Pra Voce. A ballad from the 1970 album that consolidated Roberto Carlos as Brazil's biggest-selling artist.
- - Roberto Carlos - Jesus Cristo. The Brazilian singer's most widely covered song, from the album issued as Roberto Carlos 1970.
- - Roberto Carlos - Detalhes. The Roberto and Erasmo Carlos ballad that became a standard across Latin America.
- - Roberto Carlos - A Janela. A Roberto and Erasmo Carlos composition from the singer's Jovem Guarda-to-balladeer transition.
- - Juan Gabriel - Querida. The Mexican singer-songwriter's biggest hit, which held number one in Mexico for a year.
- - Juan Gabriel - Besame. A ballad from the same 1984 album that made Juan Gabriel Mexico's dominant songwriter.
- - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - Conga. The 1985 single that took Cuban rhythm into American pop radio and made Estefan the first great Latin crossover star of the modern era.
- - Luis Miguel - La Incondicional. Juan Carlos Calderon's ballad, with the military-themed video that made Luis Miguel a continental star.
- - Luis Miguel - No Se Tu. The Armando Manzanero bolero that opened Luis Miguel's Romance album and revived the Latin standards repertoire.
- - Selena y Los Dinos - Como La Flor. Selena's signature Tejano single, the record that made her the biggest Latin star in the US before her murder in 1995.
- - Selena - Como La Flor. The cumbia that made Selena the biggest star in Tejano music, from the album Entre a Mi Mundo.
- - Selena interviewed in 1994 - Smithsonian archive. Footage unseen for over twenty years, digitised by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; Selena speaking a year before her murder.
- - Ricky Martin - Livin' la Vida Loca. The 1999 crossover single generally credited with triggering the Latin pop boom in the English-language market.
- - Shakira - Whenever, Wherever. Shakira's first English-language single, the record that made the Colombian singer a global pop star.
- - Daddy Yankee - Gasolina. The 2004 single that carried reggaeton out of Puerto Rico and onto global radio; official artist upload.
- - ZAZ - Je veux. The 2010 single that made Zaz the biggest French-language pop export of her generation, selling millions across Europe and Latin America.
- - Ricky Martin Foundation. Logo for Ricky Martin Foundation Photograph dated 2011.
- - Luis Miguel's full set at Vina del Mar 2012. Luis Miguel's complete performance at Chile's Vina del Mar song festival, from the festival's official historical archive channel.
- - Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta - Steven Tyler, Joe Perry from Aerosmith, Shakira, No Doubt…. Hard Rock Cafe, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia Photograph dated 2013.
- - Concierto Laura Pausini CRC EMCR LMM 20160820 0005. La cantante Italia Laura Pausini en el Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, el sábado 20 de agosto de 2016 Photograph dated 2016.
- - Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee. The most-viewed music video on YouTube for years and the record that put a Spanish-language song at number one in the US for 16 weeks.
- - MC Fioti - Bum Bum Tam Tam. A funk carioca track built on a Bach flute partita that became one of the most-viewed Brazilian videos ever, via the KondZilla channel that industrialised the genre.
- - ROSALÍA - MALAMENTE. The single that introduced Rosalía's flamenco-and-trap fusion and launched El Mal Querer.
- - SEBASTIÁN YATRA EN BABAHOYO 2018. Sebastián Yatra en concierto, en Babahoyo, Ecuador, en 2018. Photograph dated 2018.
- - Anitta - Envolver. The single that made Anitta the first Brazilian solo artist to top the Spotify Global chart.
- - Rema - Calm Down. The Nigerian single that, with its Selena Gomez remix, became one of the most-streamed Afrobeats records in history.
- - Rosalía on Motomami - the full interview with Jaime Altozano. An hour-long musicological interview in Spanish in which Rosalía walks through the construction of Motomami track by track.
- - 31.10.2022-Lula e Janja recebem Milton Nascimento - 52469253155. 31.10.2022-Lula e Janja recebem a visita do cantor e compositor Milton Nascimento, no Hotel Intercontinental, em São Paulo. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert Photograph dated 2022.
- - DISCOS FIESTA CACHANILLA. Disco original 45rpm lado "B" - Colección personal familia Corpus, Mexicali, Baja California, México. Photograph/scan dated 2023.
- - Karol G's full set at Vina del Mar 2023. Karol G's complete performance at Chile's Festival Internacional de la Cancion de Vina del Mar, Latin America's oldest and largest televised song festival. Official festival archive channel.
- - SZA LOLLAPALOOZA (2024) - IMG 7917. Cantora Sza no Lollapalooza em 2024, vestindo camisa verde do Brasil, com a bandeira do Brasil no fundo. Photograph/scan dated 2024.
- - 25th Laureus World Sports Awards - Red Carpet - Roberto Carlos - 240422 192828. Roberto Carlos, the legendary Brazilian footballer, known for his powerful free kicks and defensive prowess, is accompanied by his daughter at the 25th Laureus World Sports Awar… Photograph dated 2024.
- - Mana's full set at Vina del Mar 2024. Mexican rock band Mana's complete 90-minute headline performance at the 2024 Vina del Mar festival.
- - KAROL G - Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido. 2024 single from the Colombian artist who became the first woman to top the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish album.
- - -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 004 Romerito Pontes. 2024.
- - -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 002 Romerito Pontes. 2024.
- - -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 003 Romerito Pontes. 2024.
- - Peso Pluma - Hollywood. Official video from the artist who took corridos tumbados, regional Mexican music fused with trap, to global streaming charts.
- - Ivete Sangalo live: O Verao Bateu Em Minha Porta. Official live video from Brazilian axe star Ivete Sangalo, one of the country's biggest live draws and a fixture of Salvador's carnival circuit.
- - Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR's Tiny Desk with the biggest Spanish-language artist in the world, performing with a full Puerto Rican band.
- - The Cast of Buena Vista Social Club: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR's Tiny Desk with the Cuban ensemble whose 1997 album became one of the best-selling world-music records ever made.
- - Shakira and Wyclef Jean reunite on Hips Don't Lie. Shakira and Wyclef Jean performing Hips Don't Lie together in Charlotte on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran world tour, twenty years after the song's release.
- - Carin Leon's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. Mexican singer Carin Leon's complete performance at Vina del Mar 2025, the festival appearance that carried regional Mexican music to a pan-Latin television audience.
- - Sebastian Yatra's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. The Colombian singer's complete performance at Vina del Mar 2025, Latin America's most-watched televised song festival.
- - Marc Anthony's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. Marc Anthony's complete 79-minute performance at the 2025 Vina del Mar festival in Chile, from the festival's official archive channel.
- - Bad Bunny closes his 30-night Puerto Rico residency. The Coliseo de Puerto Rico's own recap of the final weekend of No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui, Bad Bunny's thirty-show 2025 residency staged deliberately at home rather than on a world tour.
- - Selena y Los Dinos - Netflix documentary trailer. Trailer for the 2025 documentary built from the Quintanilla family's own home-video archive of Selena's career.
- - ROSALÍA - Berghain ft. Björk and Yves Tumor. The lead single from LUX, sung in German, Spanish and English over orchestral scoring, a deliberate rejection of streaming-era pop convention.
- - The cultural impact of Bad Bunny's halftime show. PBS NewsHour unpacks the symbolism of Puerto Rican pride and independence in the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, and the political backlash that followed it.
- - A Classical Musician Listens to Bad Bunny. Nahre Sol analyses the harmonic and rhythmic construction of Bad Bunny's records from a compositional standpoint.
- - Ludmilla's full set at Planeta Atlantida 2026. Brazilian funk and pop star Ludmilla's complete hour-long festival set at Planeta Atlantida 2026, from the festival broadcaster's channel.
