It's a Bad Bunny summer in Puerto Rico: Ana recaps 2 of his Residency shows
Alt.Latino
NPR
4.5 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Music featured in this episode:
• Bad Bunny, "Callaita"
• Bad Bunny, "Baile Inolvidable"
• Los Pleneros de la Cresta, "Los de la Isla"
• Gilberto Santa Rosa,"La Agarro Bajando"
• Bad Bunny, "Lo Que Le Paso A Hawaii"
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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| 0:12.1 | Learn more at RWJF.org. |
| 0:18.8 | From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm Felix Contreras. |
| 0:25.1 | And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisemay begin. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, as we said last week, Anna is in Puerto Rico, in San Juan. |
| 0:36.0 | My favorite place in the world. |
| 0:38.3 | And she's there for a very, very special occasion. |
| 0:44.4 | She went to take in two of the Bad Bunny concerts that are scheduled throughout all the way through September. |
| 0:45.7 | So that's what we're going to do this week. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to unpack your experience. |
| 0:50.0 | Felix, this is the party of the summer, the party of the century, maybe, one could say. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm sad you missed it, but next time you can come with. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, summer's not over yet. Let's see what happens. |
| 1:03.3 | So I was lucky enough, I got invited as press, to experience the shows designated for Puerto Ricans on the island here, it was amazing to experience |
| 1:13.0 | the energy in that room of being in a show by someone from the island for the island to take |
| 1:19.2 | that in, to understand the implications of that. So Felix, I talked to a lot of people all this |
| 1:24.8 | week outside of the concert, in the concert, between concerts. |
| 1:30.3 | And we're going to get into all of that. But I really just, to sum up, encapsulate the incredible |
| 1:35.7 | energy and musical experience of what this show was, because it really was more than a show. |
| 1:41.0 | It was like a guide to Puerto Rico in general in its history. |
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