Roots and unity at the Latin Grammys

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The annual Latin Grammy awards are always full of glamour and glitz. But they're also an ideal time to take the pulse of the industry - which is exactly what Anamaria Sayre did this year, perusing the red carpet to talk with the most exciting names in Latin music.

In this episode, Ana brings Felix her report from Las Vegas, where Bad Bunny won Album of the Year, the independent Brazilian music scene made a splash, and the whole industry seemed to be saying: "Show us where you're from."

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0:00.0	On NPR's Wildcard podcast, Suleka Jawad reflects on losing friends she met while getting treated for cancer in her 20s.
0:07.5	And the truth is, I would experience any amount of grief to experience those loves.
0:15.7	Watch or listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app or on YouTube at NPR Wildcard.
0:27.3	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino.
0:29.5	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:30.6	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chiseme begin.
0:41.4	The Chisemay is that you went to Las Vegas without me again.
0:44.0	You didn't want to come. You never want to come.
0:46.9	I should go back. I don't want to cramp your style, though.
0:52.1	Yeah, I'm pretty cool without you, feelings. I don't want to have to be towing you around all the parties, you know.
0:56.9	So anyways, I went without you this year.
0:58.4	You went there with a purpose, though.
0:58.8	I did.
1:00.0	You were given a task.
1:01.1	I was given a task.
1:05.9	I always use the Latin Grammys, I feel like, as a space to really take stock,
1:08.8	understand where Latin music is at.
1:15.0	Last year, I had gone and reported kind of similarly on what's happening right now,
1:19.5	which to me is this like massive explosion of Latin music. And you kind of get to see at the Latin Grammys how people are dealing with that.
1:23.8	At last year's Grammys, it was like Mexican regional was having the crazy, like,
1:29.2	we didn't see it coming, kind of really like peaking moment. We saw, you know, as per always,
1:35.3	regitone is always on the rise, but we hadn't reached this year with Bad Bunny yet. You know,
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