Jorge Drexler returns home

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jorge Drexler is one of the most decorated singer-songwriters in Latin America. His albums are always high profile events, and his latest record merits the attention. It's called Taracá, and to make it he returned home to his native Uruguay - after living in Spain for 30 years - to explore the roots of an Afro-Uruguayan tradition known as candombe. On this week's episode we chat with Drexler about the motivation for returning to his home country, making music after losing his parents, and how the album's title reflects the sound made by a candombe drum.

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0:00.0	From NPR Music, this is all Latino.
0:05.6	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:06.8	And I'm Ana Maria Sayer.
0:09.1	Felix, I love when we do an interview.
0:12.0	And today we have an interview.
0:13.2	These interviews are really working out in ways that I didn't expect, actually.
0:18.6	It's good for people, I think, to have a break from our yapping.
0:22.1	Yeah.
0:24.6	Let's listen to someone else yapp for a bit.
0:26.8	How about that?
0:28.7	It's exactly what I was thinking about, but I didn't want to put it so plainly, but I'm glad you're just waiting up there.
0:33.4	I have a way with the words.
0:37.1	This one's really exciting.
0:38.5	I mean, this is one of these artists that, you know, always fascinating to pick his brain.
0:43.5	I always learn approximately 10 new things minimum.
0:47.7	Felix, who do we bring today?
0:49.0	Jorge Drexler.
0:50.2	Ooh, El Maestro.
0:52.2	I got to say, he's one of the most decorated singer-songwriters in Latin America.
0:56.0	I mean, he's consistently recognized at awards shows like the Latin Grammys.
1:00.0	He has an armful for these well-crafted, very literate musical projects.
1:06.0	And his albums are always the high-profile events in Latin music.
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