The greatest Boleros of all-time
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Last December, UNESCO declared the bolero "an intangible cultural heritage of humanity" and "an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song." And given that Valentine's Day is coming up, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre did something special this week, in honor of this news: they asked some of their favorite artists and show listeners to share their most-loved boleros, and break down exactly what makes them so special. Join Felix and Ana as they laugh, cry and sing a little to the love songs of the ages.
And be sure to check out the playlists we made for this episode, feature Ana and Felix's picks, as well as the selections from featured artists and listeners, on Spotify and Apple Music.
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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| 0:17.0 | From NPR Music, this is out Latino. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Felix Contreras. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm Anamadias. |
| 0:22.0 | Let the Chisme begin. |
| 0:24.0 | Rhenne, |
| 0:27.0 | Rhenne to come in. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, no. |
| 0:32.0 | No more singing, we're not normalizing singing on this show. |
| 0:37.0 | That's what we have the artist for. |
| 0:39.0 | Especially my singing. |
| 0:40.0 | Okay, I'm singing a Bolero because it's February and it's time for Valentine's Day so we want to do a nice little special show for Valentine's Day. |
| 0:48.0 | And you know we love love here at all Latinos. |
| 0:52.0 | If the people knew Felix, how much? love love. |
| 0:53.0 | The people know Felix how much time we spend unpacking, dissecting, analyzing. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, you know, they don't want to know. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay. |
| 1:04.0 | But for now, we're doing this podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | What we're going to do is we're going to feature Bolero and here's why. |
| 1:10.0 | Because I don't know if you noticed, but in late last year in December the United Nations |
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