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The global Latinx community is evolving and growing fast. Alt.Latino is here to celebrate it and all of its nuances through music. Each episode, NPR Music's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with a different living legend or rising star to discuss Latinx culture, heritage, and the shared borders of our experiences. Let the chisme begin!Support NPR and get your music exploration sponsor-free with Alt.Latino+. Learn more at plus.npr.org/nprmusic

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Episodes (320)

Dominican indie, Peruvian cumbia and experimental Argentine pop

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Songs she loves: Sofia Rei and the magic of the human voice

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A Tejano master gets his flowers. Plus, Yahritza y Su Esencia returns

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Alt.Latino

Notable Guests

Episodes (320)

Dominican indie, Peruvian cumbia and experimental Argentine pop

Songs she loves: Sofia Rei and the magic of the human voice

A Tejano master gets his flowers. Plus, Yahritza y Su Esencia returns

If the singer falls silent, life falls silent: The female power anthem hall of f...

From church basement to salsa immortality: Remembering Willie Colón

Chicano soul, Canary Islands merengue and a percussion supergroup

A Brazilian summer and a lost Mexican masterpiece

Puerto Rico takes the field at the Bad Bunny Super Bowl

Bad Bunny makes history at the Grammys. Up next, the Super BBowl

Venezuela speaks: Producer Ella Bric spins songs with a 'teardrop of optimism'

Rawayana on their new album and a changing Venezuela

Our Love Letter to Bob Weir

Music as protest in Venezuela

What We Missed In 2025

What Were Felix and Ana's 2025 Favorites?

Zen and the art of new music

Roots and unity at the Latin Grammys

Rosalía in her own words

Portraits of Jazz and Identity in Latin America

Salsa, bossa nova, and Argentina's next big thing

What's in our mailbag? The beauty of simplicity

A Tiny Desk chat with Silvana Estrada

A conversation with Gloria Estefan

The return of El Tiny

Latin honky tonk and imaginary collaborations

Bad Bunny Closes Out His Residency

A Tribute to Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras

Felix's healing soundtrack and new love songs

Ecuadorian-American indie pop, 2010s Tumblr-core and bedroom pop cumbia

Flaco Jimenez and Eddie Palmieri: Why Their Music Mattered

Latin summer anthems

The decline of corridos tumbados? Plus, more jazz from Felix

It's a Bad Bunny summer in Puerto Rico: Ana recaps 2 of his Residency shows

Bad Bunny residency prep, new guitar tracks and Latin genre benders

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

'Our joy is our resistance.'

Bad Bunny gets political, Brazilian grooves from Brooklyn, Reparto Cubano and mo...

Vintage cumbia, Ecuadorian folk, guitar jamming and Mexican rap

Karol G goes Pan-Latin, Argentine rock reimagined, Mexico now and then

Best music of the year (so far)

New Tracks: Bruce Springsteen (yes, that Bruce Springsteen), pablopablo and more

Accordions: From Eastern Europe to Latin America, with love!

The Latin bands of the Tiny Desk Contest

Musical lessons for living in the moment and meat-inspired band names

Guitarricadelafuente and Lido Pimienta return with stunning albums

Music from South America, Spain and ... Mars?

Rapper PJ Sin Suela on Puerto Rican hip-hop and more

These Alt.Latino faves just keep getting better and better

A Banjo, Bomba, Bardo y Más

Behind the scenes of Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk