La Brega: Bonus Track — Songs for the Future of Puerto Rico

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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From our friends at WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, today we're sharing an episode from the latest season of the podcast La Brega — which traces the history of Puerto Rican music across eight transformative songs.

In this special bonus episode of the show, La Brega goes behind the music with the artists featured on La Brega: El Álbum — including RaiNao, Xenia Rubinos, ÌFÉ and Ana Macho.

La Brega: El Álbum is sponsored by Marguerite Casey Foundation. This season of La Brega is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

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0:22.2	available wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, this is Felix. From our friends at WNYC
0:27.9	studios and Futuro Studios, today we're sharing an episode from the latest season of their
0:33.0	podcast, La Brega, which traces the music of Puerto Rico across eight transformative songs.
0:39.5	The podcast enlisted a group of Puerto Rican artists to put their own modern spin on the historic songs featured in the season,
0:47.4	from voices like Xenia Rubinos, Anamacho, the band Balloon, and many more.
0:52.5	The show even made a way cool album of those cover songs
0:55.8	available wherever you listen to music. In this bonus episode, host Alana Casanova Berger's
1:01.5	takes you behind the scenes of how the show made that album, speaking directly with the artist
1:06.9	who reimagined those classic songs for a new era. Check out La Brega's podcast feed with episodes available in both English and Spanish
1:15.1	if you'd like to hear more.
1:17.1	I hope you enjoy it, man.
1:18.2	I did.
1:21.1	Futuro.
1:26.0	Weba, two notitas.
1:28.1	First, this episode is going to be in a mixture of English and Spanish.
1:32.3	Ocea, it's in Spanish.
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