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available wherever you get your podcasts. What up, everybody. It's Anna Maria here. Now,

Felix is out on vacation this week, which means I was tasked with the amazing opportunity,

question mark of finding you all the most exciting most amazing most informative of

rerun episodes and this episode that I'm bringing you this week is really a good one it's about

the Cuban roots of rock and roll now I've got to tell you this really blew my mind. Felix has taught me all kinds of things

over the years, but this one specifically, I mean, you would have never expected it, I think. So I hope you

give it a listen and I hope it surprises you as much as it did me. Let me see our music,

This is Al-Lpat, baby, Diamond Rain.

If that diamond rain don't shine,

he's gonna take it to a private eye.

This is All Latino.

I'm Felix going to hear of our continuing special programming for Latino Heritage Month.

We're going to look at the heritage of rock and roll.

There are plenty of oral histories and scholarly works

indicating the various musical traditions that went into the earliest days of rock and roll.

And let's give that a timestamp.

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