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Glitz and heart-on-sleeve emotionality mingled, every so often, with political and social messages at the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards .

Songs To Your Eyes, Ltd. has launched a new Latin music division with a first release, the Caliente Music catalogue.

" Renowned music library company Songs To Your Eyes, Ltd., has launched a new, Latin Music Division, and, concurrently, that division's first release, the "Caliente Music" catalogue.

You read it here first. Here are Billboard's predictions for the Latin Grammy Awards, which will be handed out on Thursday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

It took Verdi and his librettist Piave a mere 40 days to set every note and word of Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'amuse" into the 1851 opera known as "Rigoletto." With a running time of just over two hours, there isn't a wasted note in the entire score.

Mambo, cha-cha, merengue and more." Musical influences "Among others, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Barretto, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Willie Colon, El Gran Combo, Celia Cruz, Hilton Ruiz, Eddie Palmieri, Fort Apache Band and Mongo Santamaria." Day jobs * Carlos: Restaurant services * Tom: Products for the physically challenged * Taze: Guitar teacher * ...

By the mid-1960s, Latin-jazz was in rapid transition. Americans' appetite for Cuban dance music had cooled as tensions between Fidel Castro and the United States heated up in the early 1960s.

Canadian indie dance duo Junior Boys played to a packed Vagabond Saturday. When we say packed, we mean wall-to-wall. We've never seen the venue as crammed as it was this past Saturday.

SALSA KINGMARC ANTHONYHe's been in the news lately for becoming one of many celebrity minority owners of the Miami Dolphins , but the man can truly belt out Latin love ballads and get your feet moving to serious salsa beats.

Cercano al fin del Mes de la Herencia Hispana, el Presidente Barack Obama y la Primera Dama Michelle Obama recibieron a varias figuras de la msica y el entretenimiento latino as como ms de 380 invitados entre ellos miembros del Congreso y lderes comunitarios de todo el pas para celebrar la msica latina, el pasado martes en la noche.

October 15, 2009 By Carol Motsinger After decades of Hispanic immigration to Western North Carolina, the first home for Latino artistic contributions is on the horizon.

By Chris Richards Fifteen minutes into the show and Marc Anthony was crooning with his shirt halfway open.

The White House became "La Casa Blanca" on Tuesday, celebrating Hispanic musical heritage with a South Lawn concert and such guests as Gloria Estefan, George Lopez, the Bachata music group Aventura, Jose Feliciano and more.

Documentary follows the evolution of Latin music BY JORDAN LEVIN jlevin@MiamiHerald.com 'Cuban Pete' Aguilar in Latin Music USA When the Fania All-Stars played a legendary concert at Yankee Stadium in 1973, the stands were filled with 63,000 people who were so crazy for the radical new music called salsa that they stormed the stage.

When the Fania All-Stars played a legendary concert at Yankee Stadium in 1973, the stands were filled with 63,000 people who were so crazy for the radical new music called salsa that they stormed the stage.

"Noches Tropicales" at Tropical Park. Coming soon to Tropical Park -- a new season of Noches Tropicales , the popular series of al fresco concerts! Salsa star Rey Ruiz headlines the first concert of the series, presented by Miami-Dade Parks.

From humble beginnings - co-founder Johnny Pacheco used to sell records out of the trunk of his car - to 44,000 fans mobbing Yankee Stadium for the historic 1973 Fania All-Stars concert, Fania Records is arguably the single most important record label in the history of Salsa.

Start practicing your cha-cha and merengue steps. There's going to be some hot music this weekend - Latino style.

The hips at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts on Saturday night got a workout.

Naples residents Samuel Roque, left, and his wife Melissa Roque dance along with their friends Maribel Rodriguez, right, and her husband Jose Rodriguez, second from left, during the Oscar D'Leon concert at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts on Friday night in Naples.