Alt.Latino: A Banjo, Bomba, Bardo y Más

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Anamaria continues to impress Felix with new female voices, while he shares more jazz and Puerto Rican bomba fusion.

Featured artists and songs:

• Queralt Lahoz, "LA FE"

• Bardo, "Renacer" (feat. Combo Chimbita)

• Vanessa Zamora, "GRAVEDAD" (feat. Çantamarta)

• BEATrio, "Archipelago"

• Mon Laferte, "Otra Noche de Llorar"

• El Laberinto del Coco, "Todo Se Nubla"

Credits

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there. I'm Brittany Luce. And I don't know, maybe this is a little out of pocket to say, but I think you should listen to my podcast. It's called It's Been a Minute, and I love it. And I think you will too. Over the past couple months, over 100,000 new listeners started tuning in. Find out why.
0:23.8	Listen to the It's Been a Minute podcast from NPR today.
0:28.7	Sometimes when you're prepping the music, Felix, I feel like I'm getting ready for like a dance class or something.
0:30.0	It's like, all right, we're getting going.
0:31.4	Let's go, Felix.
0:32.3	It's time for the routine.
0:33.3	Let's go.
0:34.4	Just check the levels and...
0:36.2	Do your stretches, put on your jazzer size outfit.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:40.4	Got my outfit on it, doing my stretches.
0:46.0	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino.
0:47.9	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:49.5	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:51.6	Let the chis may begin.
0:53.7	Okay, wait. Hold, I'm still stretching. Hold on.
0:57.9	I am so excited. I have not been this excited, actually, Felix, about an album in a while.
1:04.0	This artist, Gerald La Joss, is from Spain, and this is her song Lafé. Demasia dixtra
1:11.6	Shella
1:12.6	Many of her
1:14.6	art
1:15.6	but I'm an artist
	...

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