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Alt.Latino

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Alt.Latino

NPR

Music

4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre talk artistic growth and precocious talent.

Featured artists and songs:

• Natalia Lafourcade, "Cancionera"

• Natalia Lafourcade & El David Aguilar, "Como Quisiera Quererte"

• Natalia Lafourcade & Hermanos Gutierrez, "Luna Creciente"

• Irene Diaz, "Anything For You"

• Eladio Carrión & Myke Towers, "Vetements"

• Eladio Carrión & Lia Kali, "Me Muero"

• Kayatibu, LUIZGA & Yaka Huni Kuin, "Nai Basa Masheri"

• Santi Sc, "Cuando Nos Besamos" (feat. Dirk)

• Santi Sc, "Home Run"

• Maria Marquez, "La Lagrima"

Credits

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid, which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies, and call it, wait, wait, don't tell me because the good names were taken.

0:17.2

Listen to NPR's, wait, wait, don't tell me, Yes, that is what it is called, wherever you get your podcast.

0:24.6

A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.

0:29.0

Felix, I tell you how I tore my hamstring.

0:31.3

Okay, I want to hear this. Go ahead.

0:32.7

So I was in yoga. Who gets entered in yoga? I was trying to do the splits, Felix.

0:37.7

Oh, my God.

0:38.8

Anyways, we're here now and we're alive and it's fine.

0:42.1

Don't do the splits while we're recording this.

0:44.8

I'm literally trying to exactly what I was doing now.

0:47.6

Let's get this show over with before you heard yourself.

0:51.1

From MPR music, this is all Latino and Felix Contreras.

0:54.0

And I'm Anna Maria Sayer, let the chiseme begin.

0:57.0

And Felix, oh my God.

0:59.0

I'm so excited. You know, you get why I'm so excited.

1:02.0

I mean, it's like, it's the day, it's the time, it's the event of the season.

1:06.0

Because Natalia Lafourcade is finally releasing another album.

1:11.6

It's called Cancionera, which translates directly to like a collection of songs or a songbook.

1:16.6

It's the second album, Felix, that she's released, that has basically been her own music again.

1:21.6

So as we all know, obviously Natalia has her whole story history of being the spirit singer of Mexico, basically, reviving tradition.

1:29.3

I'm like, how would you describe her?

1:31.3

Exactly.

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