The salsa icon and Nuyorican pioneer’s bold trombone sound and landmark collaborations helped define a generation of Latin music.

His career spanned 60 years and dozens of albums and had been named among the most influential Latino artists of all time.

The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón ...

Since last month, a TikTok has been floating around, showing arthritic Latino grandmas and grandpas hearing Bad Bunny for the first time, courtesy their bemused grandchildren. On the reel, he samples ...

When Noël Quintana was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, music was a prominent part of his life. “Music was always in the air,” Quintana said during an interview with AL DÍA. His father owned a bodega ...

"Beat Yourself Up" is the second track lifted from Puth's forthcoming album, 'Whatever's Clever!' By Lars Brandle For his next trick, Charlie Puth takes us for a ride back to the late 1980s. Maybe ...

It's a test of rhythm and timing. Viral videos of the "Say The Word on Beat" challenge are spreading across social media. Videos posted online show players hilariously attempting to say words that ...

When you sit down with a game, you make a pact with it: you’ll push the buttons, and it will show you what happens when you do. A lot of games don’t really care to interrogate what that means, to use ...

December tends to be the time of the year where new releases slow down and you’re finally free to catch up on your backlog. Not this year, suckers! This month has been the busiest December for new ...

Ray Barretto was already a giant in Latin music when he released Barretto in 1975. Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, he had spent the previous two decades carving out a singular place for ...

For over 19 years, the Texas Salsa Congress, founded by Ruby Rivera, has brought salsa, merengue, mambo & other Latin dances to Houston. From free lessons in parks & theaters to intergenerational ...